Sentence examples for set of petitions from inspiring English sources

One-third of the members of the NPC standing committee quickly signed a set of petitions calling for an emergency meeting.

The crown never lived up to the full terms of the agreement, and in his later years Columbus was constantly insisting on his rights, drafting and redrafting a set of petitions that have become known as the "Book of Privileges".

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 17 — The Supreme Court started hearing a set of petitions on Monday against the plans of Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to be re-elected while still in military uniform.

The announcement, the clearest indication from General Musharraf's camp of his political plans, came in a statement introduced in hearings on a set of petitions challenging his eligibility to run and his dual role as civilian and military leader.

Also on Friday, a civil liberties group in New York filed a separate set of petitions with the federal court seeking early hearings on whether eight prisoners at Guantánamo have been lawfully detained.

A coordinated set of petitions, including a letter signed by 57 rabbis, asks UC administrators to adopt the State Department's definition of anti-Semitism as a means to "accurately identify" and "publicly condemn" it in campus debate, protest and discussion.

Why should anyone pay attention to a self-selected set of petition signers when a scientific poll of public opinion on the same subject was available (and probably shown to the President on at least a weekly basis by his political advisors)?

Through the years, the town clerk had rejected four sets of petitions seeking to schedule a referendum on council districts.

But as it turned out, two board employees were on duty when the doors opened, so both sets of petitions were clocked in at the same time and canceled each other out.

Mitchel Cohen, a Green Party candidate for mayor, said yesterday that since his party operated through consensus, he was concerned that its members would not have time to examine the full set of the petitions and discuss whether to challenge them before Monday's deadline.

Leff said the Justice Department "has not fulfilled its commitment to provide the resources necessary for my office to make timely and thoughtful recommendations on clemency to the president" and that she had been told to set aside thousands of petitions for clemency and pardon.