The commission also may start a proceeding when an outside party files a petition seeking a new law or change in existing rules.

But all 7,500 children in the organized baseball and softball leagues took home a petition seeking support for the bill.

The petition challenged the Governor's sanction and was seeking reversal.

Supporters of the prisoners are collecting signatures on a petition seeking their release.

This naturally bores them and their petitions always seek to introduce changes.

Nina Pillai filed another petition seeking compensation for her husband's death.

Israel's Supreme Court rejected several petitions seeking to bar it.

In recent months, they gathered signatures of 9 of the street's 11 homeowners on a petition seeking the change.

In 1993 the association filed a petition seeking to remove the northern spotted owl from the Federal list of endangered species.

Through the years, the town clerk had rejected four sets of petitions seeking to schedule a referendum on council districts.