Sentence examples for present a petition for from inspiring English sources
On this Manx bank holiday, anyone may approach Tynwald Hill at St John's and present a petition for redress.
Furthermore, in the normal course of events a petitioner before a court has to have lost a cause not won it, as Banzhaf had in order to present a petition for review.
More than 100 dissident managers, many of them at senior levels of the company, interrupted the meeting led by the company president, Alí Rodríguez, to present a petition for the removal of the company's internal security chief, Gustavo Pérez Issa.
In 1991, backed by Outrage!, he dressed up as a concentration camp inmate to attend Tynwald Day, a Manx national holiday when ordinary citizens are allowed to present a "petition for redress" to Tynwald, the island's parliament.
These bike people really are going to get their way!' " In Manhattan on Wednesday, about two dozen people, mostly from regional transit groups, gathered at City Hall to present a petition of support for Ms. Sadik-Khan and the Bloomberg administration's transportation policies.
When Manin presented a petition for home rule to the Congregation, the quasi-representative body of the Austrian province of Venetia, he was imprisoned along with Tommaseo (January 1848).
He died while on a diplomatic assignment to present a petition to Napoleon for the incorporation of Galicia in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
This month, 15 people with HIV were detained by police when they tried to present a petition about their plight, calling for increased government support and access to medical records.
Dozens of parents gathered near the Parliament building on the outskirts of this city on a recent afternoon, hoping to present a petition to lawmakers demanding a raise for teachers so they would return to the classroom.
The schoolgirl, who set up the Malala Fund following the attack, presented a petition of more than three million signatures to the UN secretary general demanding education for all.
The World YWCA will present a petition to CSW urging the group to pass a special resolution calling for an end child marriage.
