Sentence examples for petitions of from inspiring English sources

But online petitions of the kind the site has invited since last November are neither.

The governor can act upon this belief in reviewing the clemency petitions of both boys.

He reprimanded lawyers who demanded vast fees to represent the reparations petitions of former slave labourers.

That question was whether there is a general First Amendment right to anonymity in signing ballot petitions of all sorts.

In France the petitions of the people and the National Assembly played a significant role throughout the Revolution.

The primary platforms for petitions of this ilk are Change.org and WeAreUltraviolet.org — the latter focuses exclusively on gender-related campaigns.

Mr. Hendon then said he had come to examine the nominating petitions of Susana Mendoza, a City Clerk hopeful.

Two years later, 298 were killed, despite tens of thousands of state residents signing petitions of protest against the hunting.

In this week's round of hearings, objections were lodged against the petitions of 335 candidates running for office.

That designation gives it the right to lobby on Capitol Hill and gather lawmakers' signatures on petitions of support.

President Pratibha Patil, following the advice of the Indian government, rejected the mercy petitions of the men, opening the way for India's first hangings since 2004.