This dependency for outside assistance to obtain public services ended by 1959 when residents formed the Association of Colonists of Hermosa Provincia which was used to directly petition the government.

In 1981, an attempt by the Mana Motuhake Party to directly petition the Queen to "honour the Treaty" was refused by the New Zealand Government.

During his British tours, he had audiences with King William IV and Queen Victoria, directly petitioning the latter on the issue of title deeds for the Mississaugas of Upper Canada.

Rather than accept Calhoun's ultimatum, Ross directly petitioned Congress for the Cherokee cause on April 15, 1824.

If citizens are not satisfied with judicial decisions, they will be able to directly petition the Constitutional Court.

They are learning the limits of unfettered complaint, and thousands of them have begun petitioning directly to human rights groups as did the celebrated political dissidents of the recent past.

William had emerged as the mouthpiece of the secular party, and in 1254 he and five other masters directly petitioned Innocent IV.

A poor country in need of aid would directly petition multilateral lenders and friendly governments, as hurricane-ravaged Honduras is now doing.

Germany withdrew from the League in October 1933 over the re-armament and could not directly petition the League of Nations to intervene.

But so ill-matched had the contest become that respective boards of control no longer appeal to the ICC for a ruling on intimidatory bowling, preferring instead to petition directly to Amnesty International.