Sentence examples for stacks of petitions from inspiring English sources

Some of the stacks of petitions had toppled over and fanned across the dirty floor.

The place was a firetrap: stacks of petitions now rose six feet high around us.

"This is summer — do you know how many people are out of town?" asked Professor Erie, who envisions stacks of petitions mainly signed by "tourists who want to get in on the action".

Many were bounced from Tuesday's ballots the traditional way, by party nitpickers challenging the stacks of petitions that include the voters' signatures needed by candidates to qualify for their various races.

On the counter, a framed photograph of a white-haired man sits next to a stack of petitions calling for his release from prison.

Today, it became official almost -- that there will be a Democratic primary for governor, as Andrew M. Cuomo produced a six-foot-high stack of petitions to get his name on the primary ballot.

She not only signed a petition asking the state education commissioner, David M. Steiner, to deny Ms. Black the waiver required for chancellor candidates who lack the necessary education credentials, but also joined other parent leaders Monday in gathering in front of Dr. Steiner's home to deliver a bound stack of petitions and letters opposing the appointment.

At 10 o'clock Saturday morning, about 1,500 miles east of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, a group of 15 protesters stepped off a bus in windswept Northern Virginia to deliver a stack of petitions with 1,820 signatures, all recently gathered.

The protesters were not allowed inside Google's headquarters and dispersed at 1 15 p.m., leaving a stack of petitions signed by thousands of environmentalists at the door.

Clemency provides relief to a few lucky individuals plucked from the stack of petitions, but does not repair the inherently broken system that put thousands of individuals behind bars in the first place.

Barr had a stack of petition forms sent to the school.