Sentence examples for there were petitions from inspiring English sources

There were petitions for his removal and strikes by professors, clerks and librarians.

There were petitions and marches, and support from council members and socialites.

There were petitions in Rhinebeck, continuing concerns in Larchmont and a near Birkenstock rebellion in Woodstock.

There were petitions and hearings and signs stuck in soon-to-be-shaded front gardens, but all efforts to interrupt development here were as futile as the hell-raising over the Atlantic Yards.

There were petitions and home-made banners, branded T-shirts and wristbands paid for through local fund-raising, even a rickety "wall of hope" bearing scrawled messages of support.

There were lectures and readings, there were PEN reports to write and trips to Prague and Jerusalem, there were Op-Ed pieces to write for the Times, there were petitions to sign, readings to give, there were love affairs, friendships, elderly parents.

There are petitions and flooded comment boards.

There are petitions and protests and a Free Ai Weiwei website, where information is gathered.

There are petitions and campaigns exactly where you'd expect them to be for a youth channel – in social media.

"There's petitions calling for amnesty and we support that call," said Sienna G. Baskin, a lawyer and co-director of the Urban Justice Center's Sex Workers Project.

That's a growing issue, and so there are petitions floating around, not yet delivered, but being talked about, that are to support this person or that person, this issue or that issue.