Sentence examples for petitioners like from inspiring English sources

Worse, Ms. Huang said, the government squanders its meager health care resources confining harmless petitioners like Mr. Xu while neglecting people desperately in need of help.

Mr. Ji's case elicited widespread sympathy among Chinese Internet users, who accuse the government of hassling rather than helping petitioners like Mr. Ji.

Interestingly, the court's ruling seems to particularly focused on protecting the rights of "petitioners" like 77-year-old Eleanor McCullen, the lead plaintiff in the buffer zone suit, who has been described as a "grandmotherly" activist who stands outside Boston abortion clinics and quietly tries to persuade women not to go inside.

But before she can leave, a couple of the other performers approach her backstage like petitioners and ask for her autograph.

I come out of the house, and the birds are waiting at the chicken-yard fence like petitioners in some Russian novel but with boundless optimism instead of resignation and despair.

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

In 1958 and 1959, Roraback filed complaints on behalf of four married couples, a set of plaintiffs that, like the petitioners in this year's same-sex-marriage cases, were carefully selected.

Tenure, for all the problems inherent in any sinecure system, is meant to protect freedom of speech and freedom of thought in the academy, and what de Grazia and her colleagues were contesting was the right of a self-constituted "public" like Paula Stern's petitioners or Daniel Pipes's "general effort" to interfere with that freedom.

Like Don Corleone receiving petitioners in his inner sanctum or Colonel Kurtz in his cave, this is one of Brando's crepuscular roles, a brooding creature of the shadows, from which the first recognisable thing is the nasal-strangulation of the voice.

The lawsuit has nonetheless generated political attention for the petitioners who now have allies like New York City Councilman Costa Constantinides.

In short, underneath his daunting exterior, Flint is a writer, a petitioner for attention, like any other of Martin's friends.