"petition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Every group in this country should send petitions to the president and to Congress.
- The House sent a petition to the king asking for his recall.
- "Let us instead send a petition before the King," suggested the knight.
- As one of their first actions, the organization sent a petition to Congress asking for a permanent custom house.
- Why should it suddenly find another committee responsible for the subject matter just because somebody sent a petition to that other committee?
- "We will send the City a petition protesting this violation of our sovereignty."
- Residents of one apartment house asked him to whom they should send a petition supporting the precinct.
- The night before his execution the officers of the 39th signed and sent Jackson a petition asking for mercy.
- In the 1870s, voters sent a petition to the House of Representatives for a popular election.
- They sent petitions signed by communal administrations and members of the bar to the Senate.
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