Sentence examples for some petitioners from inspiring English sources

Knowing that real black jails often await them, some petitioners try to resist being taken away.

But some petitioners think it is a waste of time to scour the phone book for Columbus's long-lost kin.

At the same time, some petitioners have come to focus more on the process of lodging a complaint than on the outcome.

One anecdote has him chuckling in the Presidential office over an outburst ginned up to frighten away some petitioners: "Didn't I manage them well?" Whether this propensity sprang from nature or art, he knew how to put it to use.

LAWYERS familiar with the pardon process say there has always been a bit of "back-dooring," with some petitioners trying to press their case at the White House through influential people.

The possibility of the respondent's incarceration might also deter some petitioners from having DVROs served.

But after extensive debate largely on procedural matters, the call for a referendum failed with some original petitioners voting against it.

The petitioners, some of whom have spent years away from home, tell tales that are sometimes confusing and often horrific.

Also — and crucially — it wants to leave the petitioners some slender hope, a fantasy that one day injustice will find redress.

Some of these petitioners have been in custody for six years with no definitive judicial determination as to the legality of their detention.

His signature, however, does not appear on the famous petition of the Cordeliers demanding the abdication of Louis XVI that, on July 17, resulted in the massacre of some of the petitioners by the national guard.