Sentence examples for petitioning to from inspiring English sources

"I had people petitioning to take my child away.

Parents at P. S. 276 were petitioning to limit next year's kindergarten to avoid overcrowding.

Companies are petitioning to build more than a dozen export terminals.

With a court system often weighted in the state's favor, many Chinese turn to petitioning to appeal to higher authorities.

A black sheet carries the names of many leading lights in Hong Kong's cultural community, petitioning to save the pier.

Then, a leading architecture critic made a beeline for Mr. Adjaye, petitioning to visit his latest house.

A Mr. Cotes was petitioning to be graduated with a total of 148 instead of 150 hours.

Wachtell, however, is petitioning to have the period for reporting an ownership position shortened to one business day from 10 days.

In March, 2009, the Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutor's office, after years of Marianne's petitioning to obtain child support from von Habsburg, issued a warrant for his arrest.

Dauren Babamuratov, leader of the nationalist "Future" or "Bolashak" movement, held a meeting on Thursday petitioning to ban so-called "gay propaganda" in the country, Tengri News reported.

The trial began on Wednesday with lawyers representing several Islamist groups petitioning to delay the trial so they could join as plaintiffs.