Sentence examples for petitioning in a from inspiring English sources

As he watched the Toyota recede, Mr. Baskin, a senior at SUNY College at Geneseo who is petitioning in a handful of middle-class Queens neighborhoods, wondered aloud if he should have taken more desperate measures; rapped on the window, for instance, or stood in front of the car.

A Leeds campaign group has officially launched a petition in a bid to rally public support for Kirkgate Market.

"People from more well-to-do neighborhoods fill out petitions in a neater, cleaner way," he said.

He stuck to his story, too, and kept repeating in a sullen and hostile manner that he had found the Lincoln petition in a crate.

But an Islamist activist filed a petition in a Lahore court expressing concern that the captives would be extradited to the United States.

A few months later, in December 2002, the bureau rejected the Schaghticoke's petition in a preliminary finding, then in January 2004 issued a final determination acknowledging the Schaghticoke tribe.

The Federal Communications Commission said it rejected the petition in a unanimous vote because Verizon had not shown that it faced enough competition to warrant exemptions.

Father Dabney said that many patients from these hospitals come to pray before the shrine, sometimes leaving petitions in a glass bowl.

In Germany over 100,000 people signed a petition in a week," said the head of the negotiating committee of the Yasuní-ITT, Ivonne Baki.

Lauren Pinkett, whose three children were born there, has organised a petition in a bid to persuade the trust to keep the unit – "a truly special place" – open.

The court denied the petition in a brief opinion that found the Department's proffered justifications for the fee limitation system, and its new evidence, unpersuasive.