petitioning
请愿,请愿书,请愿的,呈请
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- : a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
- : a request made for something desired, especially a respectful or humble request, as to a superior or to one of those in authority; a supplication or prayer: a petition for aid; a petition to God for courage and strength.
- : something that is sought by request or entreaty: to receive one's full petition.
- : Law. an application for a court order or for some judicial action.
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- : to beg for or request.
- : to address a formal petition to: He received everything for which he had petitioned the king.
- : to ask by petition for.
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Stand up for working momsThere are so many ways to use your voice, and while a phone call to your representatives is among the most powerful, MomsRising makes five-second activism incredibly easy via digital petitions.
Before she ran for office, Greene circulated a petition to have Pelosi impeached.
A petition one member posted on the Internet that year drew more than 1,200 signatures, and its Facebook page boasts 1,300 followers, more than twice the number on the Move the Monument page.
It states that as part of the process, a notice of the name change petition must be published “in a newspaper of general circulation,” in the county where the petitioner resides, unless the court grants a motion to waive this publication requirement.
A petition claims the update threatens the country’s security.
A Change.org petition asking A&E to drop the show is already making the rounds online.
A petition has been delivered in Nevada that will put a similar measure to the one in Washington on the ballot in 2016.
It had more petition signatures than any previous Nevada ballot initiative.
Wahlberg filed his petition for a pardon to the governor of Massachusetts on November 26.
The petition, open to any citizen to join, gathered forty thousand signatures in the first three months.
The royal Audiencia has investigated this matter, on petition of the cabildo, in order to refer it to that royal council.
If he does not inhibit or exclude from his mind the word “Petition” he can make no advance.
I humbly petition your Majesty to be pleased to order that he be despatched here, so that this so urgent need may be supplied.