Example sentences for: petitioned

How can you use “petitioned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Last summer, his Department of Justice successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to designate asymptomatic HIV-infected people as a protected class under the ADA.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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