Sentence examples for petitioned to avoid from inspiring English sources

According to community leaders and immigration lawyers, most Guineans who have received asylum in recent years have sought sanctuary from political persecution in their homeland, though others have petitioned to avoid social practices, like female genital cutting and forced marriage.

Recently, EPA has been petitioned to remove all refuge requirements.

Subsequently several young psychiatrists from Europe petitioned to join the research group.

Some speculated that the city was to be saved for U.S. occupation headquarters, others thought perhaps their relatives in Hawaii and California had petitioned the U.S. government to avoid bombing Hiroshima.

Parents at P. S. 276 were petitioning to limit next year's kindergarten to avoid overcrowding.

This would be a good result for the parties concerned because of the hefty costs associated with filing a petition – and would allow them to avoid the political fallout from being seen as forcing Western Australians back to the polls.

A pre-emptive petition calling for studio Disney to avoid "whitewashing" the role of Mulan in its upcoming live-action remake of the 1998 animated tale has gathered more than 20,000 signatures.

The king, despite his efforts to avoid approving this petition, was compelled to give his formal consent.

And with leadership stating its preference to avoid the discharge petition anyway, GOP aides said the clearest path to victory on the farm bill may be to just give conservatives what they want ― only that may change if the gambit to kill the discharge petition wouldn't work anyway.

And adding to the controversy is an American woman called Isis Martinez, who has petitioned the American media to try and persuade them to avoid the use of her first name.

Syrian immigrants long ago successfully petitioned the U.S. government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination and exclusionary policies meant to stigmatize blacks.