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Example sentences for: petitioned

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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.
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.
USAT and the LAT (but not the WP ) actually describe the conflict: Clinton's grandmother petitioned for custody of the 4-year-old when his mother, Virginia Kelley, decided to wed Roger Clinton, a man his grandmother deemed unsuitable.
Following publication of the report of the joint Postal Service-Postal Rate Commission task force on ratemaking, the Postal Service petitioned the Commission to adopt rules to implement some of the report's recommendations.