Sentence examples for which petitioned from inspiring English sources

Not so, say the ethanol manufacturers, which petitioned the E.P.A. to approve E15 for most cars.

Halbert sits on AIBA's Women's Commission, which petitioned to allow women to go the same four rounds.

This spring, two expat Americans set up a No Love Locks campaign, which petitioned the city council to take action.

The opposition, which petitioned the High Court for the extension, said "hundreds of thousands" of people were unable to vote, most of them opposition supporters.

"Not to say we don't want new residents coming in," said Fran Vella-Marrone, the president of the Dyker Heights Civic Association, which petitioned for and supported the rezoning, "but we want Dyker Heights to remain Dyker Heights".

"Two years ago, if you raised issues, the government basically ignored you," said Wan Yanhai, the director of Aizhixing, a nongovernmental organization based in Beijing, which petitioned the Justice Ministry on the blood contamination issue.

I think a principal influence for retaining annual testing (and for not reducing the testing to randomly selected students even) is the influence of Kati Haycock and her Education Trust, which, along with others, including civil rights groups, petitioned Congress to keep the tests.

Kraft and Cadbury Schweppes, which lost out to Nestlé in the bidding for Garoto, petitioned CADE to block the deal.

In 1206 1207, Coutances, along with his suffragan bishops, petitioned Philip for special legal procedures relating to patronage, which Philip granted.

Feminism had just begun to percolate in Orthodox congregations, though it was starting to transform Conservative Judaism, where in 1972 a group of women founded Ezrat Nashim, which can be translated as women's section or women's help, and petitioned Conservative leaders for equality.

Retailers, worried about the shortened holiday shopping season, petitioned then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare the holiday a week earlier - which he did.