Sentence examples for the petitioning from inspiring English sources
noun
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
Does this disqualify the petitioning creditors?
The case of Ms. Tang, popularly known as the "petitioning mama," has been widely covered in the domestic news media.
The board did recommend that a relatively small subset of the petitioning workers be allowed to receive the expedited benefits.
In the past, similar requests have foundered on demands by competition authorities that the petitioning airlines surrender valuable take-off and landing slots, particularly at London's Heathrow.
Yet there remains a curious shortage of goodwill toward Mr. Galliano, registered in the petitioning against him at Parsons this spring.
And the bankruptcy code requires the petition creditors to be unsecured, but the petitioning funds here all have the benefit of a lien on the debtor's portfolio.
The reason for excluding the arguments relating to Northern Ireland from the petition "was that leading counsel for the petitioning Irish peers was convinced that the members of the Committee for Privileges were with him on what he considered was his best argument and did not want to alienate them by introducing another point".
Now that the case is firmly in bankruptcy, attention has moved to confirmation of the petitioning funds' plan, which they solicited consents on before the petition.
The petition gained the needed signatures with more than two weeks to spare in the petitioning period.
