petition
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Klitschko filed a petition in a Los Angeles County court on Sept. 24, requesting that he be allowed to act as Kaya’s representative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
According to the petition, Panettiere and Klitschko hired security before her death to protect her home because an unnamed person gained access inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The scheme is causing concern, with thousands of people signing a petition against it, due to fears it could harm neighbouring wildlife sites.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
They then launched a citizen-led petition to separate earlier this year, which got more than 300,000 signatures.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Franklin’s endorsement of the petition from the Pennsylvania Abolition Society effectively assured that the preferred Madisonian strategy—calmly receiving these requests, then banishing them to the congressional version of oblivion—was not going to work.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Most obviously, Justice Brett Kavanaugh acts as the circuit justice who is assigned primary responsibility for reviewing petitions from the 8th Circuit.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
A week after the floodwaters receded, Angelenos started circulating petitions that would recall the corrupt Shaw from office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Complaints have ratcheted up on social media, in petitions and through celebrity campaigns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The pair allegedly turned in the fraudulent petitions to several petition coordinators, in order to receive payments from a petition management company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
She organized a group of sixty women who canvassed the state of New York, collecting ten thousand signatures on petitions.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Wade’s sentence was reduced by 10 years after Wade’s attorney petitioned the judge to reconsider the sentence imposed for Wade’s gun charges, the Mercury News reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Eighteen parishioners successfully petitioned the Duke of Beaufort to remove Byfield from the position.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
For five years, Sister Schubert’s fans asked, begged and eventually petitioned for the return of a frozen food composed of two things: a small smoked sausage and a soft Parker House roll.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Over the years, Narwat has petitioned chief minister, MPs and district officials, and written to the National Human Rights Commission, seeking improvements to the two Khedi Kalan schools.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He invited researchers from around the world to present scientific papers on cancer in minorities, and he petitioned the city of Atlanta to name October 11, the date of the conference, Henrietta Lacks Day.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Cherneff: Almost immediately after emancipation in Maryland, there were reports of parents petitioning for the freedom of their children.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
But when Hopkins began petitioning Amazon to stop selling any other titles that contain the word, she crossed a line.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
The Every Fire Survivor’s Network said it was petitioning to join a state enforcement action announced this year against the company to make sure the case results in meaningful changes at California’s largest home insurer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Alison Fure, 68, is petitioning Kingston Council to begin phasing out plastic decorative items, including ornaments, flowers, and windmills, on graves.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Pedrito and Jaimito have come and gone a dozen times, petitioning here, visiting a friend with pull there.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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