Synonym: appeal, demand, plea, request, requisition. Similar words: competition, competitive, practitioner, appetite, competitor, constitutional convention, factitious, fictitious. Meaning: [pɪ'tɪʃn] n. 1. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority 2. reverent petition to a deity. v. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.
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121. Chamber officials and growth advocates, who staunchly oppose the petition drive, acknowledge the concern of residents.
122. Signing a petition against the war and arguing with Kip in the privacy of our apartment wasn t enough.
123. Many of the petition signatures required as part of the process to form the district were questionable on technical grounds.
124. Altogether, he spent $ 497, 604 to promote petition drives in 22 states, according to the report.
125. Meanwhile, the Perot organization is gearing up for petition drives in other states starting Feb. 1.
126. On that advice, the petition was dismissed by the visitor.
127. The petition drive, one of two being mounted in Texas by the Reform Party, will continue through the weekend.
128. Please encourage class members to lobby their local councils about cuts in classes, either personally or by petition.
129. Alexis and Paul Gilmour are keen that everyone in Holybourne who wishes to sign the petition can do so.
130. There was a street petition and coverage on local radio and in the local newspaper.
131. Members of Killynure House Committee are presently making house to house calls soliciting residents support for the petition.
132. The petition also wants the highways authority to leave in place the signs prohibiting heavy vehicles over 7.5 tons.
133. Less than one-fourth of those petition signers said they would vote for Perot if he runs again this year.
134. She's gathered 18,000 signatures in Swindon on a petition protesting about the fuel tax.
135. The case received wide publicity when a habeascorpus petition was upheld by two lower courts.
136. This is because Mrs. Gilmour will be taking the petition along to the district council offices the following day.
137. Signatures have been collected on a petition to call an extraordinary general meeting following Forest's struggling start to the season.
138. At issue: What, exactly, needs to be attached to a referendum petition for the signatures to be valid.
139. Wilson said last week as he denied Williams' petition for clemency.
140. The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures.
141. But hundreds of residents signed a protest petition stating buses were crucial for people living in the Albert Hill area.
142. In a 1993 bankruptcy petition, he listed debts of $ 157, 000 and assets of $ 3, 754.
143. The Chapter 7 petition was filed in federal bankruptcy court in Newark.
144. Primo and his friends all signed the petition. The man behind the table gave a speech.
145. Jones said he will file the petition sometime early next week.
146. The judges hearing the petition said that they hoped that the delay would cool protests which had already cost some 70 lives.
147. Voice over A delegation of pensioners marched on Number 10 to present the petition.
148. Back in 1930,[www.Sentencedict.com] over a thousand economists signed a petition begging Congress not to pass something called the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
149. The order is deposited with a short petition, in standard form, prepared by the agent.
150. Verney said a list of all petition signers will be made available to potential candidates in early July.
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