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Example sentences for: petition

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While his asylum petition was pending, Binalshibh lived in Hamburg and associated with individuals from several mosques there.
In England, a group of 40 independent Christian schools plans to petition the European Court of Human Rights to have the ban lifted.
Launched by husband-and-wife software entrepreneurs Wes Boyd and Joan Blades--Berkeley Systems, the company they founded, is most famous for the "Flying Toasters" screensaver--Censure and Move On was an online petition campaign urging Congress to call off impeachment proceedings, censure President Clinton, and get down to more important business.
A link to a campaign-finance petition underscores McCain's reformist position.
(1), (2), or (c), the owner or operator of two or more units subject to one or more of the applicableemission limitations set pursuant to these sections, may petition the permitting authority for alternative contemporaneous annual emission limitations for such units that ensure that (1) the actual annual emission rate in pounds of nitrogen oxides per million Btu averaged over the units in question is a rate that is less than or equal to (2) the Btu-weighted average annual emission rate for the same units if they had been operated, during the same period of time, in compliance with limitations set in accordance with the applicable emission rates set pursuant to subsections (b) (1) and (2).