More than 20,000 residents formally petitioned the Queensland State Parliament to halt the dam.

"Next week our lawyers will petition formally the request that we be permitted to use '88 funds for '84 debts without penalty," Mr. Dixon said.

A dozen prominent intellectuals today formally petitioned China's parliamentary bodies to conduct an independent investigation into corruption in the Chinese leadership.

Today, the foundation and roughly 40 other groups and individuals formally petitioned the F.D.A. to conduct long term studies.

In 1888 she formally petitioned the British to set up a Protectorate to head off what she believed to be imminent invasion by the French.

In July 2009, Hayashi formally petitioned for a retrial.

In 1805, he formally petitioned Congress to intervene, but they did not.

In February 1843, the residents formally petitioned the government to construct the route.

Inventors can appeal the secrecy order by contacting the agency that requested it, or formally petitioning the patent commissioner.