Sentence examples for petitioned to return from inspiring English sources

Some Japanese-Palauan families migrated to Japan, but generally faced a cultural shock and petitioned to return to Palau after living in Japan for some years.

Denis J. Sullivan, who runs the university's Middle East programs and has been taking students to Egypt for 18 years, has petitioned to return there for three summer sessions.

In 1991, when the younger Shikaki was teaching at the University of South Florida, he petitioned to return to the West Bank, but the Likud was still in power, and mere association with his brother precluded it.

So, earlier this year, Mesans invoked a rarely used Arizonan privilege and petitioned to recall Mr Pearce.

(My mother, on the other hand, petitioned to have the sex rabbit removed, without success).

He worked for a year, then went before the college administration and petitioned to be reinstated.

Having no male cousins, Lady Sarah Carnegie, the eldest, petitioned to inherit the title.

Residents petitioned to save it but, deemed unsafe, the original lighthouse was taken down in 1948.

He converted to Catholicism last year, petitioned to annul his marriage and several bishops showed up for his baptism.

The mainly Christian, African south argued that it had little in common with the Muslim, mainly Arab north, and petitioned to secede.

Ms. Elder notes in her report that both women "had petitioned to serve their sentences in Moscow, arguing that they wanted to be close to their children.