petitioning

Part of this drive is you petitioning the White House and President Obama—what can he do?

That exasperates Sapan, who has been petitioning presidents to pose for him since Gerald Ford was in office.

After petitioning for the assignment through her chain of command, the Navy decided to make her a test case.

My father took up the cause of petitioning city councils for local gun laws and I would go with him.

She has turned her focus on a film career instead, petitioning Woody Allen this week to consider her for an upcoming film.

People began to get fidgety, and started petitioning their representatives in government to Do Something.

For the very act of petitioning is an act of subjection; it is an acknowledgment of God's power.

The course of petitioning and respectful remonstrances was therefore persevered in, but all to no purpose.

Most certainly a meeting for the purpose of petitioning is not, and (unless by its own folly) never can be, found unlawful.

The Croats replied by petitioning the Emperor to separate their country completely from Hungary.