6 sentences with 'petition'
Example sentences and phrases with the word petition and other words derived from it.
• « First, MartÃn and Hidalgo circulated a petition to suspend the project, signed by 100 prominent Spaniards. »
• « Occasionally, a poorer Roman citizen could petition an emperor personally for redress and succeed, as could the occasional provincial to a governor, but the vast majority of the time the poor (citizens and non-citizens alike) were simply at the mercy of the elite landowners. »
• « Constantine allowed bishops to serve as official judges, giving Christians the ability to petition a bishop rather than a non-Christian judge in court. »
• « The Holy Roman Empire had a parliament, the Imperial Diet, where representatives of the member states, free cities, kingdoms, duchies and church lands met to petition the emperor and discuss the political issues of the day. In practice, the Diet had little impact on the laws of the constituent states of the empire. »
• « After the Russian defeat, 100,000 workers tried to petition the tsar for better wages, better food prices and an end to official censorship. Troops fired on the crowd, which was unarmed, triggering a wave of strikes across the country. »
• « In an effort to halt this trend of environmental degradation, the Cousteau Society - with the advice of authorities in ethics, science and law - has initiated a global petition to establish a Bill of Rights for Future Generations. »