Sentence examples for petitioning him from inspiring English sources

In North Dakota, Democrats are petitioning him to change his mind and run again.

Sent to a decrepit rural outpost, he must deal, day by gloomy day, with supplicants petitioning him about convoluted property claims.

It began with the unfeasible success of the rainforest spoof George of the Jungle (even the Washington Post called it 'unsophisticated but enjoyable'), and now children are swarming around Brendan in airport lounges, petitioning him to autograph their Elastoplasts.

The march was supposed to climax with Joe Glenton delivering a letter to the Prime Minister petitioning him to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.

If God only listens to certain special people (white men) He has chosen to have the power to petition Him.

Before George W. Bush left office, Franzia petitioned him for pardon, and was turned down.

William Sancroft, the archbishop of Canterbury, and six other bishops petitioned him against this and were prosecuted for seditious libel.

This is something the main opposition Democrats had petitioned him to do, arguing that the constitution empowered the monarch to take such action to resolve a crisis.

Mount Kōya was given to Kūkai in the year 816 by the emperor Saga after Kūkai had petitioned him for permission to build his monastery there.

But again and again, members of the audience used their meeting with the head of Britain's central government to petition him for succour against heartless or incompetent local officials.

When a woman in the audience asked if he'd do "Dancing With the Stars," he said they had petitioned him but that he was too busy to train.