Sentence examples for petitions in support of from inspiring English sources

In 2006 in Michigan, a federal judge criticized Mr. Connerly's supporters as engaging in fraud by telling voters they were signing petitions in support of affirmative action.

The faculty signed petitions in support of colleagues on campus and elsewhere.

Several of the relatives have circulated petitions in support of the death penalty in their neighborhoods and towns.

As the battle between Amazon and Hachette widens, hundreds of authors are stepping into the ring, putting their names to rival petitions in support of the duelling combatants.

Chomsky has since vainly pointed out that he did not feel the need to read "The Satanic Verses" before signing petitions in support of Salman Rushdie.

Almost 300,000 signatures have been collected by petitions in support of the 53-year-old on the official White House petition website and Change.org, after his story featured in the hugely popular Netflix documentary Making a Murderer.

They have published a petition in support of the RIBA.

An online petition in support of the presenter collected nearly 500,000 signatures in barely 24 hours.

A petition in support of the resolution has been set up by the campaign group Avaaz.

An online petition in support of Clarkson attracted more than 1m signatures.

Some 20,000 people are said to have signed a petition in support of asylum.