Sentence examples for sponsored a petition from inspiring English sources

In November the group sponsored a petition signed by more than 1.4 million people to pass a bill that would end evictions.

The S.A.C.D., the French dramatic writers' guild, sponsored a petition, which said that Polanski had been arrested "in a case of morals".

Refusing to mention Olbermann by name, he sponsored a petition drive to have him replaced, and eventually began to aim on-air broadsides against NBC's parent company, General Electric, and its chairman, Jeffrey Immelt.

SPON's political arm, Line in the Sand, recently sponsored a petition drive intended to force a referendum on Museum House, a 25-story, 100-unit condominium tower planned for Newport Center that was approved by the Newport Beach City Council.

In 2011, the organisation co-sponsored a petition against another rapper, Kanye West, to block his music video for Monster due to its eroticised violence.

Consumers Union is sponsoring a petition demanding that cellphone companies provide call-blocking technology to customers.

Public Citizen is sponsoring a petition to end food marketing to neonates.

Attorney Herb Sanders represents Stand Up for Democracy, a group sponsoring a petition for a referendum on Public Act 4.

Brandon Jessup, chairman and CEO of Michigan Forward, a group sponsoring a petition to freeze the emergency manager law, criticized the lack of transparency allowed under Public Act 4 in a recent press statement.

The mere idea has drawn protests from many residents of Ward 6, whose councilmember, Charles Allen (D), has sponsored an online petition "HailNoRFK" that has 3,700 signatures.

The National Center for Science Education, which has battled efforts to dilute the teaching of evolution, has sponsored a pro-evolution petition signed by 700 scientists named Steve, in honor of Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist who died in 2002.