Sentence examples for received petitions from inspiring English sources

He also said that he received petitions from alumni against recruiting blacks.

Though she patiently received petitions and listened to anxious advice, she zealously retained her power to make the final decision in all crucial affairs of state.

Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew, Democrat of Cape May, who has received petitions protesting the decision, called for a public hearing on the decision-making process, which he called "vague and confusing".

The department had also not received petitions from several people associated with major financial scandals in recent years, like at Enron, WorldCom and Adelphia, nor from Conrad M. Black, the conservative former newspaper publisher, nor Martha Stewart.

Late Wednesday afternoon, Equity received petitions requesting either a special meeting of the union's council or a meeting of the membership to re-evaluate the decision barring Mr. Pryce.

The department said it had not received petitions from several recently convicted political figures, including I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff; Jack Abramoff, the former Republican lobbyist; Bob Ney, a Republican former congressman from Ohio; and George Ryan, a former Republican governor of Illinois.

Margaret Smith, the granddaughter of then mayor Emily Smith, remembers that her grandmother used to receive petitions from communists calling for a "second front" to be opened.

The Neversink Town Board certified the wet options for the general election after receiving petitions bearing the names of 25percentnt of the town's 1,100 registered voters.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 2 , 1946P. 13 The UNO is receiving petitions asking that Argentina be suspended because it is "an enemy of peace and security".

Mr. Chalabi is shown visiting a mass grave site, receiving petitions from tribal chieftains and speaking to a crowd of agitated Iraqis during the first weeks after his arrival in the country.

The ICC has a prosecutor who receives petitions, conducts investigations, and prosecutes grave international crimes (Articles 34, 42).