"petition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Quéret-Démery was just an obscure, forgotten victim of an autocratic rule, sending his humble petition which was never delivered, to "Monseigneur."
- I will not presume to trouble Your Grace with a full description of our unhappy circumstances, which my father has set forth most accurately in his very humble petition.
- (Though in her 1689 "humble petition" to the Lord Chamberlain, she noted that she was never paid more the 30 shillings a week.)
- At thirteen years old, the Child of the Marshalsea presented herself to the dancing-master, with a little bag in her hand, and preferred her humble petition.
- Why, "much may be done, says he, by humble petitions and representations of the hardships of certain measures" - Ask him whether the colonies have not already done it?
- She had not read more than: 'The humble petition of Gerald Corven, K.C.B.,' when she had her fourth thought: 'But this is exactly what I want.
- Without discontinuing the pleasures in which he was immersed, he contented himself with sending presents and humble petitions to Constantinople.
- The next year (167), Dou Wu submitted a humble petition requesting leniency for the partisans and tendering his resignation.
- It is the humble petition of the camel, who only asks that he may put his nose into the traveler's tent.
- The Parliament sent a message to the king, a humble petition, with 19 propositions to prevent conflict.
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