Differing from earlier petitions, this one spoke for the entire army, not just the officer corps.

An earlier petition got him off death row briefly in 1982.

Like earlier petitions, this one decries the corruption that has become like "a wind blowing through our country."

An earlier petition had failed, as had two previous appeals to the Supreme Court.

Eight of the signers of the earlier petition joined the one that emerged today.

Some early petitions in 1788 to the Commons on the slave trade came from county meetings held in customary county meeting places.

The inmate's original lawyers failed to put that evidence before either the jury that convicted him or the Federal judges who rejected his earlier petition for review.

There is no evidence to support the suggestion that this was in response to the earlier petition from the sister of James Collis.

In 1968, a state court denied the Town of Bristol's earlier petition to incorporate itself as a village.

In 1866 Mary Crudelius put her name to one of the earliest petitions to Parliament about votes for women.