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Example sentences for: petitioned

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Last summer, his Department of Justice successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to designate asymptomatic HIV-infected people as a protected class under the ADA.
We have humbly petitioned the poo-bahs at Netscape Corp. to include Slate in the Inbox Direct feature of their own new browser, Netscape Alligator 4.0 (we think it's called).
6 The Postal Service petitioned the Commission in 1995 to adopt rules to implement some of the task force's recommendations.
A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s children petitioned the Justice Department to reopen the James Earl Ray file, Sean Lennon alleges that the 1981 murder of his father John may not have been the work of lone gunman Mark David Chapman but the result of a U.S. government plot.
Steinbrenner may be a righty, detesting all who might intervene in his business, but he's happy to bat lefty when it comes to government aid: He has eagerly petitioned New York City to spend $500 million or more to build him a new stadium.