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petition

A petition is a written request to change something. A petition is a list of signatures showing support for something or opposition against it. Please sign our petition to get a new snack machine in the school cafeteria. A petition is a written document that people sign to show that they want a person or organization to do or change something. In honor of his memory, a petition has been sent to persuade the Postal Services Stamp Advisory Committee to put Willis Conover on a U.S. postage stamp.refhttps://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/willis-conover-voice-of-jazz/2955876.html/ref

petition

To petition for something is to make a request for it, usually in writing. You should petition for a shorter work week.

petition

(= request) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing reverent petition to a deity

Synonyms petition synonyms

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Topics petition topics

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Conjugation petition conjugation

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petition · verb

Examples petition examples

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Simple sentences

Tom signed a petition to ban fur farms.
First, we will present a petition to the mayor and collect signatures.
More than 10,000 people signed the petition.
Click below to sign the petition!
He signed the petition.
Tom signed the petition.
I addressed a petition to the mayor.
She refused to sign the petition.
I signed this petition.
Everyone at the meeting signed the petition.
I'll sign the petition.
Tom refused to sign the petition.

Movie subtitles

Accordingly, you will avoid having to carry out the death sentence passed upon the infanticide. Victorine Lippert, whose petition for clemency has been turned down.
I hereby inform you that your petition for clemency. for the condemned infanticide Victorine Lippert. has been turned down.
Meanwhile, I have filed a petition for an injunction. to prohibit you from either selling or removing the jewels.
How about it? Such a petition is a matter of court procedure, which will have to be handled through your counsel, Mr. Glennister.
He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome petition.
The petition.
That's right. We received a formal petition.
Likewise. We should examine the petition.
Their petition be damned!
It seems to me we have no choice but to grant their petition.
If Mother withdraws her petition, the court will release the money.
It would only delay things to file a formal petition so why don't we informally agree to ask for an adjournment?
But, suppose you just go ahead and file that formal petition anyway?
Do you wish to file the petition?
No petition?
You are coming along with your petition.
Send a petition to the courts in London.
This bold new way of appealing by printed petition is creating a sort of public opinion that is forcing decisions even on kings.
I'll get up a petition signed by every citizen of the state.
I've studied your petition, Mrs. Smith. and the affidavits attached.
Such a petition is a matter of court procedure.
Through sacrificing petition pennants they invoke divine protection against upcoming dangers on their journey.
Your petition for pardon was not accepted.
We neighbors really should gather a petition, Stephen.
You should write up a petition for us.
My father will you hear my petition?
They're readying a petition with influential politicians.
Petition from many influential leaders have been approved.
Such a petition is a matter of court procedure, which will have to be handled through your counsel, Mr. Glennister.
That's a petition for divorce.
Your cousin and this gentleman have presented a petition. That you be confined in a lunatic asylum for the remainder of your natural life.
A delegation from the state of Morelos with a petition.
The scientists signed petition after petition.
So Uncle tore up our petition, then placed it in his sleeve.
Pieces of the torn petition.
My first petition hasn't been offered yet.
What kind of petition?
Tomorrow I'll send a petition around, everybody will sign it You'll leave the building.

News and current affairs

Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms.
The petition called for the monarchy to work within constitutionally prescribed limits, and for an independent judiciary.
His petition was first denied by the Guatemalan electoral authority and then by the Supreme Court.
One activist gathered 100,000 signatures on a petition to oppose using the mosquitoes in eradication efforts.
Despite this ongoing persecution, Liu continued to write and petition the government on behalf of the people of China.
It posted an anti-war petition with over 1,000 signatories, mostly academics.
So it was even more surprising to see pro-war sentiments expressed publicly, such as the petition that appeared in the Guangzhou-based weekly newspaper 21st Century World Herald.
Second, a majority of parliamentarians must sign a petition declaring null and void the extension of Lahoud's term.
Those who organized this coup hoped that it would lead to greater things for themselves; those who signed a petition of protest were fired not long after.
The islanders say that the refinery then followed up its petition by destroying their homes and small farms - and threatening further violence to those who did not leave.
Yet an estimated 17 million Egyptians marched to protest Morsi's government, the majority of them citizens who had been mobilized through a petition process to demand a government responsive to their needs.
Hundreds of European scholars are circulating a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions; other academics want the EU to deny grants to Israeli universities and scientific institutions.
After 22 million Chinese signed a petition against Japanese membership of the United Nations Security Council, Premier Wen Jiabao announced China's opposition to such a step.
More than 30,000 Cubans signed the Varela petition requesting a referendum on basic rights.
When carrying his petition to Beijing, escorted by a tiny group of lawyers, Chen was accused of disrupting traffic on the city's clogged roads and condemned to four years in jail.
They protest, they petition, and they participate in local riots when all other means are exhausted.
Elsewhere, a seemingly commendable grassroots petition movement to re-establish Constitutional values at the state level turns out to be - if you read the fine print - a drive to enshrine Christian values in state law.
In a rare challenge to the government, Beijing-based writer Yu Jie, one of the petition's authors, wrote that China ought to support the war on Iraq.
A bankruptcy judge would approve the petition, provided the court was satisfied that the homeowner could make the reduced payments.
This year began with a vigorous (by Russian standards) Internet petition urging Putin to take the first option.
Liu was co-author in 2008 of a petition, Charter 08, signed by thousands of Chinese, calling for basic rights to be respected.
One million signatures were rapidly gathered on an Internet petition demanding that the Japanese government thoroughly resolve the chemical weapons issue, while Internet chat rooms filled with anti-Japanese invective.

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