Sentence examples for petitioner from from inspiring English sources

If the line is long, it becomes impossible to distinguish one petitioner from another.

"It is run like a detention centre," says Zheng Yuming, a petitioner from the city of Tianjin who was taken to Majialou in November.

Wu Lijuan, a seasoned petitioner from Hubei Province, said she helped coordinate more than 10,000 former bank employees who came to Beijing from across the nation last week.

Wang Rongwen, a longtime petitioner from Sichuan in the southwest, had her third trip ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary, with six officials taking her to the majestic peaks and gurgling waterfalls of the Tiantai mountains.

But she felt that she had to augment the story with a rape because the immigration system can better comprehend such a story; Novick kept asking her for more details of the rape because a rape story was what was expected from a female petitioner from her country.

So local and provincial officials have a strong incentive to prevent petitioners from reaching the central government.

This prompted officials to order more strenuous efforts to keep petitioners from flocking to Beijing, and certainly well away from the meetings.

They were petitioners — from villages that, like Wukan, had lost their land to unaccountable leaders and could not get it back.

As for Mr. Huckabee's refusal to detail his reasons for granting clemency, Mr. Cox said that was intended to prevent other petitioners from mimicking successful arguments.

The house was a bustling ministerial headquarters, where petitioners from all over Europe pursued the royal secretary for favours and begged for a glimpse, a word.

Later, the justices pleaded with Clement to advise the court on how the petitioners from Bosnia could make the argument that they were being held illegally.