About 250 residents recently signed a petition urging the state to drop the idea.

The petitions were urging Congress to take action to protect the flag.

They got neighbors to sign petitions urging lawmakers to act.

Fifteen hundred students signed a petition urging the faculty not to make the move.

She gave him 1,569 signatures on a petition urging the maximum sentence.

About 7,000 of the state's prisoners have signed petitions urging its continuation.

More than 8,000 people signed petitions urging the local government to block the amphitheater.

So far, its leaders have amassed 1,000 signatures on a petition urging that the site remain intact.

A petition by some 3,000 artists and writers urged that the collection be preserved in its entirety.

Of the 5,000 people who signed a petition urging the town not to shed the beach, half did not know that it existed, she said.