Sentence examples for petitioning efforts from inspiring English sources

That would have shut out other candidates, who would have been forced into laborious and expensive petitioning efforts to run in a primary.

In addition to being the women's rights movement's most prominent spokesperson, Lucy Stone led the movement's petitioning efforts.

Women abolitionists responded by holding a convention in New York City to expand their petitioning efforts, and declaring that "as certain rights and duties are common to all moral beings," they would no longer remain within limits prescribed by "corrupt custom and a perverted application of Scripture".

I was compelled to go out and, standing at subway station entrances, hand out fliers calling for one last petitioning effort on February 28 , 2013

She initiated petition efforts in New England and several other states and assisted the petitioning efforts of state and local organizations in New York, Ohio, and Indiana.

Under the rules, candidates must mount separate petition efforts in each district, and can appear in some and not others.

Of seven grand juries, six brought misdemeanor charges related to obscenity, said Phillip Cosby, an anti-obscenity activist who has led the petition efforts; only one, from Ellsworth County, led to a conviction, he said.

From those fried chicken dinners and petition efforts, the original group -- soon joined by other community members -- met with representatives from the county health department, county government, the medical college at Valhalla and other community resources to develop grant proposals and get the health center started.

"The statements by this superintendent are reminiscent of the scare tactics and disinformation used in prior petition efforts.

The main mosque in Williamsburg is surrounded with high-intensity security in response to a rash of threats, and stories remain of post-9/11 petition efforts against the university requesting it dismiss members of the Islamic Studies faculty over "teaching terrorism".

The money was headed to a worthy cause, he said, but Maryland law prevents appropriation bills from being brought to a referendum, so the provision could have snagged petition efforts.