Sentence example with the word 'petitioning'

petitioning

Last update: October 16, 2015

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De Quiros returned to Spain to re-engage in the work of petitioning the king to despatch an expedition for the purpose of prosecuting the discovery of the Terra Australis.   [Please select]

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"I am not petitioning, your excellency," returned Prince Andrew quietly.   [Please select]

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"I am not petitioning about anything."   [Please select]

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But the First Amendment to the Constitution forbade Congress to make any law to prevent citizens of the United States from petitioning.   [Please select]

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"I shall be petitioning her for my bread and butter, yet."   [Please select]

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By prosecuting worthy bishops for humbly petitioning him to be excused for concurring in the same assumed power.   [Please select]

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In 1728 the people of Maryland were petitioning for a road from the ford of the Monocacy to the home of Nathan Wickham.   [Please select]

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"Miss Wing, I'm petitioning the Board to invite you back to the High School at once," he would say.'   [Please select]

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"How do the principles thus proclaimed," asked the non-freeholders of Richmond, in petitioning for the ballot, "accord with the existing regulation of the suffrage."   [Please select]

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"As you know," he went on, "I have written to the Company, humbly petitioning that I be graciously relieved from a most thankless task, to wit, the governorship of Virginia."   [Please select]

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