Sentence examples for the petitioned from inspiring English sources

The move was of critical importance and explains much of what has subsequently happened, including the furious exile of the late Boris Berezovsky.Alena Ledeneva, a Russian-born sociologist at University College London, has a broader view about the relationship between petitioners and the petitioned.

(See: the petitioned shutdown of Rotten Tomatoes by Suicide Squad fans).

Speaking of travel agents and online competition, last week the American Society of Travel Agents petitioned the Justice Department to look into possible antitrust violations by major airlines who announced last month that they would participate jointly in a new Web site that would offer low-cost tickets.

After the storm the laird petitioned parliament for relief of taxes and subsequently protection from his creditors because of the destruction of his estate.

Mensch also said that she was "chilled" after learning that the newspaper industry watchdog body, the Press Complaints Commission, petitioned papers not to publish the pictures.

Having no male cousins, Lady Sarah Carnegie, the eldest, petitioned to inherit the title.

The center petitioned to protect the Pacific fisher in 1994 and again in 2000.

It could require, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned for in 2013, manufacturers to sharply reduce -- perhaps by 75percentt -- the amount of sugars used in regular sodas.

The only accommodation was a canvas tent, and the regular inhabitants of the island petitioned Cardiff council for compensation, complaining of loss of income from visitors and difficulty in selling vegetables grown on their farm at the market in Cardiff.

The four petitioned under a provision of the Clean Air Act of 1990.

The various Sundays trot out their well-established positions on the EU today, ahead of the publicly petitioned Commons debate.