121.They repor t no manifestos, formal petitions, or even the crudest chants and rarely dignify crowds with more than a few lines of their attention.The major activities of the litigation master were to write petitions for his clients and to represent them in negotiations with clerks and runners.Contemporaneous letter-writing manuals included extensive sections on such petitions.When a serious problem arose, the number of petitions must have ballooned to a staggering degree.Under normal circumstances everybody had to lodge their petitions in writing.The expanded 'avenue of opinion' did encourage a multiplicity of voices and led to an influx of petitions and memorials.During the ritual, the tamagushi is offered by participants (or priests) as a symbolic way of connecting individual hearts and petitions to the shrine.Furthermore, it had to be moving enough to stand out from many other petitions and catch the magistrate's wary attention.Part of the problem was, in fact, inconsistencies in the responses to petitions which generated further disputes.#!Their letters and petitions were suffused by a moral claim that the state should be fully aware of its responsibilities.Parishes and convocations held meetings and submitted numerous mass petitions in support of the anti-opiumists.The prospective petitions (this represents the number of chilnature of this study allows some issues of cau- dren involved).I then evaluate two types of responses inspired by amalgamation : the ceremonies and oaths created by those benefiting, and the petitions from those opposed.The justice and codification petitions formed the centre-piece of the efforts of the two men to reform the law in this period.Many prefaces, petitions, and letters reveal his participation in debates.The notable success of divorce petitions from two prominent men prompts two additional observations.In submitting such petitions, community groups might work with several levels of authority.All but a few of these appeals were in the form of petitions.Deciphering the discursive practice inscribed into petitions, however, does not provide an unproblematic or value-free route to meaning.Numerous petitions were submitted throughout the 1860s and 1870s to the government.However, the issue that brought about these petitions was unusual.Reform was also fuelled by ongoing popular unrest, with women protesting water shortages as well as petitioning for land settlement.Parliament was the "high court"; like suits in court, statutes were initiated by petitions seeking clarification of existing law.In this way, petitioners were able to insert their own notions of the good shaykh into their petitions.The minster clergy petitioned the bailiffs on her behalf for licence to enclose, but the bailiffs refused.Both petitions are built around a rhetorical opposition between civilization and barbarism.At the next level, the ward head ensured welfare for the district, consulted the district council and heard petitions from the people.We posit that additional flattened sculptures and slabs riddled with small circular depressions were foci of sacred activities aimed at petitioning favors from supernatural forces.Throughout the colonial period, railway workers petitioned for favorable postings and protested transfers to areas undesirable to them.Most of the petitions addressed the slave trade as a religious issue.A group of leading coffeemen and women petitioned his majesty once more to allow them to continue practising their trade.Petitions against the establishment of a baladiyya are matched by petitions for the establishment of a baladiyya.Statebuilding increased the bureaucracy's ability to handle and process petitions.The crucial characteristic of petitions as a manifestation of ' voice ' was their individual nature.They were to send petitions to the baihu and hamlet head, to forward to the local officials for registration.In these petitions too there is implicit the need for free agents to make particular choices.A few examples can provide a good sense of the importance and frequency of petitions from this domain.Moreover, certain matters, such as prisoner petitions, seem to have been the attorney's sole province.Faced with his non-paternity, he petitioned the court to curtail his financial obligation to the child.Almost half of the petitions considered here were put to paper by handwriting, whereas the rest were written by typewriter, replete with errors of spelling and punctuation, however.Legislative success was won only when groups could both organize effectively and demonstrate that their petitions were not dissonant with social perceptions of obligations and acceptable behavior.The question of ethnic identity was central, and was subjected to political contestation through a process of meetings, petitions to government entities, constitutional interpretation, and eventually, a referendum.Nevertheless, in this poem the ordinary capacity of women to act tends to be located in offering bhet to a superior and in petitioning for benefaction.Here again, the colonial bureaucracy and its call for petitions to be placed on record opened a space for discussions as to who was responsible for setting the boundary.The new tax was the source of considerable public indignation, with marches, rallies and petitions the order of the day throughout the country.In his benevolent aspect he is the source of rain and hence petitioned to alleviate drought, and also to prevent meningitis.They worked up petitions to parliament while engaging in some correspondence with each other.In 1792 519 petitions were raised but forty-eight of them were institutional.Eighty-three percent of the families included in this study were recruited from court records of petitions for divorce.He signed petitions against slavery, was a bullionist and an underconsumptionist in his political economy, and yet he was no radical.Furthermore, petitions, correspondence, surveys and communal accounts also survive sporadically for the villages that fell within the wider administrative district.Litigation masters were required to possess the ability to write brilliantly for their petitions to stand out, being apparently worthy of trial, among countless documents.If one department or county received between ten and twenty thousand petitions a year, it was proof that the right to litigation was guaranteed.They would also accept petitions on other days when necessity arose.Implementation required public notice of intent and a majority vote of the divisional council determined by landowner opinion gauged through petitions and public meetings.Unwilling to accept this change in legal status, the expatriate originaire community once again petitioned the administration.British officers thought detainees' lurid petitions were exaggerated.Many of the petitions would have been concerned with justice.Applying for a job or handing in your notice: collocations for work (1).
Examples of petition in a sentence: 1. Examples of Successful Petitions. The petition for Karma the Husky stands out as an amazing win! Some petitions called for the organization to be deemed a hate group and others said that its nonprofit status should be revoked.