Sentence examples for petitions presented from inspiring English sources

They drafted petitions, presented grievances and finally issued demands.

The monarch often enacted ordinances in the Cortes, and if he accepted petitions presented by that body, they became the law of the land.

Their compatriots had pinned their hopes on the result of the most recent petition presented to Congress: the ficha limpa (clean record) law of 2010.

The petition, presented to Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council, says that Jim Cooke, head of Bisham primary school near Marlow since 1985, was "removed" by Alison Alexander, the children's services director, the day after an Ofsted report placing it in special measures was published.

In a petition presented today to the Vatican's chief diplomatic representative, a delegation of rabbis asked "His Honor" John Paul II "to please change your schedule" and cancel activities between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday, the penultimate 24 hours of the pope's six-day visit to Israel and adjacent Palestinian-ruled territories.

In a statement, Hearts said: "The club is aware of the notice placed in a newspaper relating to an earlier petition presented to the Court of Session.

CBR was launched in 1999 and has played a key role in leading grassroots support for the return of the railway - not least with our 17,200-signature petition presented to the Scottish Parliament's petitions committee in March 2000.

Here is the text of the petition presented to the White House on March 11 , 2009

The bill is contained in a petition presented to a Somerset Justice of the Peace in 1758, by a wife who about 18 months earlier had been sold by her husband for £6 6s "for the support of his extravagancy".

Guys like Mr. Shalabi from Notting Hill Gate, who called on Cameron to impose sanctions on Gaddafi's regime, freeze his assets and implement a no-fly zone to prevent any more mercenaries flooding into the country – demands that were later reiterated in a petition presented to Downing Street by Libyan community leaders.

He was one of the prominent Jewish signatories of a petition presented in 1919 by United States Congressman Julius Kahn to President of the United States Woodrow Wilson who "asserted their wish not to see Palestine 'either now or at any time in the future' become a Jewish state".