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Example sentences for: petition

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One recommendation included in the Service's petition was adoption of Commission rules for reviewing on an expedited basis "service agreements with postal customers, varying from the general rate and classifications schedules in ways which add value both for the customer and for the postal system as a whole."
The dailies explain that House GOP leaders agreed to allow campaign finance legislation to come to floor votes next month because reform advocates were close to getting enough signatures on a special petition to force a vote anyway.
Only the Libertarian candidate, Murray Sabrin, favored deregulating the system under which insurers must petition a state board to raise rates and are forbidden to earn profits of more than 6 percent a year.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Well, the time allotted by the state for gathering petition signatures runs between Nov. 30 and Jan.