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Members also began the practice of presenting public petitions on constituency related issues.

He was pardoned after a public petition with 1.5 million signatures.

However, this decision was recalled as a result of a public petition, and reversed at the subsequent meeting.

The council was influenced by public petitions to keep the elephants in Tucson.

But the central government has not granted final approval, and Chinese environmental groups have issued a public petition to halt the project.

As a result of incidents in Arles leading to a public petition, he was committed to a hospital.

Nobin was released in 1875, following several public petitions for pardon.

In 1973, a public petition was raised to prevent the demolition of the café.

More than 23,000 Anacostia residents signed a public petition demanding that the line be built.

The remit of the Committee is to decide what action should be taken on admissible public petitions.

The Committee is also responsible for deciding, in cases of dispute, whether a public petition is admissible.

But worker discontent under his son reached the point of a public petition to the Imperial Reichstag.

The boundary was then extended eastward to the San Carlos River by public petition in 1889.

Then they'd get up a public petition to deport the bums and build the debtors' prisons and work farms.

Due to public petitions against slave trading, the British House of Commons held a hearing on the 1767 massacre in 1790.

Lido friends rallied round, a public petition was organised and the Lido was protected for the next few years.

Some 200 Justice Department lawyers signed an extraordinary public petition opposing the position Ms. Kuhl advocated.

Many of us advocate Europe-wide referenda and a mechanism whereby public petitions can secure a European referendum.

National Collective later began a public petition demanding that Better Together return the donation to Ian Taylor.

As an example, by the end of 2009, a public petition to the country health authorities in support of the "liberation treatment" had received over 17 thousand signatures.

The proposal, which has widespread support and no apparent organized opposition, was a sleeper forced onto the ballot through public petition after two rejections by the Legislature.

Public petitions after Kobe's return to Japan culminated in a 18 March 1975 resolution by the city council to prohibit nuclear-armed vessels from entering the port.

It advised a Federal appellate court panel that the public petitions putting this biased issue on the ballot should have been in Spanish as well as English.

The Lautaro Lodge, on the other hand, mobilized its troops and the Patriotic Society recurred to public petitions and mobilization of the population.