petitioning in English
Use "petitioning" in a sentence
1. 14 She's petitioning to regain custody of the child.
2. Petitioning the United States Supreme Court for Certiorari: A Primer
3. They're petitioning for/about better facilities for disabled people on public transport.
4. Petitioning remained a weapon of agitation against the apprenticeship system up to 18
5. How sorrowfully their cries echo! It'seems that they are petitioning us asylum and protection.
6. The Justice Department Cautioned employers petitioning for H-1B visas not to discriminate against U.S
7. In the U.K. , the British Lung Foundation is petitioning the government to outlaw smoking in cars .
8. People engage in other forms of Activism, such as petitioning and protest, when rights are denied
9. A purchaser of shares may need to resort to petitioning the court to buy out minority shareholders.
10. However these Swindon residents are petitioning for bollards and gates to prevent another invasion on their park.
11. Interrogated and thrown into the Tower of London, Monmouth was released only after petitioning Cardinal Wolsey for a pardon.
12. One day of marching can mean hundreds of hours of phone calling and shopping mall petitioning by inspired volunteers.
13. 11 At that time those men burst in and found Daniel petitioning and pleading for favor before his God.
14. Pershing briefly considered petitioning the Army to let him study law and delay the start of his mandatory military service.
15. The Hamshenis who were deported by Stalin to Kazakhstan began petitioning for the government to move them to the Armenian SSR.
16. It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies, renew the propaganda war, and once more undertake large-scale petitioning.
17. We pray continually for them, petitioning the Lord’s intervention that their faith may not weaken and that they may move forward with patience.
18. When a parent Abducts a child, the other parent's remedies include relying on the criminal justice system and petitioning for a different custody arrangement to prevent future repeat incidents
19. When the psalmist uses the word Beseech, it is certainly used in the context of petitioning God’s help in one of the strongest manners possible as we read in Psalm 116:4 where the psalmist is
20. After eight years of Cornucopia’s research, advocacy, and petitioning, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) voted in November 2016 to remove Carrageenan, a potent inflammatory agent and possible carcinogen, from the National List for use in organics.
21. The hope is that more displays of impatience for inter-Korean cooperation, combined with vigorous lobbying in Washington — including the Attritive tactic of repeatedly petitioning the White House and Senate to exempt Kaesong in particular — can help speed up things.
22. From 'ventrous' to 'Barfs' a wordsmith's guide to winning A new ordinance in Chicago went into effect on Sunday after three years of petitioning by taxi drivers called the "cab vomit fee" for any passenger who Barfs in the vehicle.
23. The Abhorrers—those who thought the Exclusion Bill was abhorrent—were named Tories (after a term for dispossessed Irish Catholic bandits), while the Petitioners—those who supported a petitioning campaign in favour of the Exclusion Bill—were called Whigs (after a term for rebellious Scottish Presbyterians).
24. "The Weight: Native Burdeners and the Entangled Politics of the Early South," American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, accepted, September 27, 2019 "'Wretched Vassals' and 'True Subjects': Apalachee and Chickahominy Petitioners in a Colonial World," Rethinking the Practice of Petitioning in the Habsburg and Colonial World,