She petitioned for her brother and his wife to join her.
They were married for 17 years before she petitioned for divorce in March 2012.
They had four children, including triplets, before she petitioned for divorce in March 2012.
In this episode alone she petitioned for custody of her grandson, dabbled in prostitution and put her house up for sale, all while strung out on heroin.
She petitioned for televisions in every classroom, where students could watch a newscast recorded by one of their own at Robeson.
She, along with other female judges, was dismissed from that position after the Islamic Revolution took hold in February 1979, and was made a clerk in the court she had once presided over until she petitioned for early retirement.
Orphaned at a young age she soon became a gisaeng, "an entertainer/concubine/slave of the government". After she learned that her father had been a nobleman, she petitioned for her freedom and won it.
She's been in the US since 2009, when she petitioned for political asylum on the grounds that she had faced persecution for her sexual orientation in her home country.
Shelly, 25, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, said that as she was talking about deferred action with a lawyer at African Services Committee, an immigrant assistance organization in Harlem, she found out she could petition for a green card under the Violence Against Women Act because she had been physically and emotionally abused for years by her American-born husband.
The Clinic represents author and Harvard historian Jill Lepore as she petitions the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to unseal the records of two 1971 grand juries empaneled to investigate the distribution of the Pentagon Papers.
Mary's struggle takes place in a public forum: she petitions a Virginia state court for permission to take the needed night classes in a segregated school.
