"petition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Because of the importance of the questions presented, we granted that petition, as well as a similar petition filed by the government in Booker's case.
- Several hundred of the Guantanamo detainees had individual habeas corpus petitions filed on their behalf.
- In 1952 residents filed a petition [1] for incorporation as an independent city since the residents did not wish to be annexed by San Antonio.
- Under the law, petitions filed too late must be dismissed.
- By a 2-to-1 vote, the court rejected a petition filed six years ago by a private group called the Save the Narmada Movement.
- Overall has filed numerous petitions with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which insists the complex's radiation output levels are safe.
- These are almost exclusively state offenses and thus petitions filed by state prisoners.
- I want the petition filed first thing in the morning, after you talk to the judge.
- Their petition is a hopeless mishmash of maybes and what-ifs, and filed under oath without the slightest hint of the real truth.
- Since 1990, about 20,000 companies a year have filed Chapter 11 petitions, more than 99 percent of them small, privately held concerns.
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