6 sentences with 'petitioned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word petitioned and other words derived from it.
• « Simultaneously, Henry VIII petitioned the Pope for a divorce, a practice that was strictly forbidden. The Pope refused, and defiantly in 1531 Henry, under the auspices of a compliant local Catholic leader, divorced Catherine and married Anne. »
• « Having witnessed the appalling conditions of debtors' prison, as well as the results of freeing penniless debtors on the streets of London, James Oglethorpe, a Member of Parliament and advocate of social reform, petitioned King George II for a charter to start a new colony. »
• « In the 1780s, a series of court decisions undermined slavery in Massachusetts when several slaves, alleging assaults by their masters, successfully petitioned the courts for their freedom. These individuals refused to be treated as slaves after the American Revolution. »
• « For several years after the peace of 1783, these indebted citizens had petitioned the state legislature for redress. Many of them were veterans of the Revolutionary War who had returned to their farms and families after the end of the war and now faced the loss of their homes. »
• « One of Adams' appointees, William Marbury, had been selected to be justice of the peace in the District of Columbia, and when his commission did not arrive, he petitioned the Supreme Court for an explanation from Jefferson's secretary of state, James Madison. »
• « The company unsuccessfully petitioned the British Government for a 31-year term of exclusive trade as well as command over a military force. Nevertheless, the company sent out two ships the next year, the Lambton and the Isabella, under the command of Captain James Herd, to look at trade prospects and potential settlements. »