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  • the FDA to lift the ban on cyclamate. This petition was eventually denied in 1980, by FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan. Abbott Labs, together with the ...
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  • prominent in the 1628 drafting of the Petition of Right. ... in helping to draft the British Petition of Right, a charter of liberties ...
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  • ==Peace petition== She was drawn into the public arena after witnessing ... she had obtained 6,000 signatures on a petition for peace and gained media ...
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  • It asserts the Subject's right to petition the Monarch and the Subject ... ** freedom to petition the king ** freedom from a peace-time standing ...
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  • nine Articles; he did not, however, sign the petition (called the "Feathers" petition from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers tavern ...
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  • His well known "Candlemakers' petition" cleverly highlights ... in April of 1834. It was a response to a petition by the merchants of Bordeaux ...
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  • towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. ... ===Petition and preparation for the March=== The decision to prepare ...
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  • she had obtained 6,000 signatures on a petition for peace and gained media ... a "lobbying effort through a petition for peace, their Citizen ...
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  • head of the Perpipatos, to present an Athenian petition before the senate. According to Plutarch, in Life of Cato the Elder, studious Roman youths ...
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  • === Petition for a "Mahayana Ordination Center" === Saicho wished to establish a different ordination platform from Hinayana (Theravada ...
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  • also gave employers the right to file a petition asking the Board to determine if a union represents a majority of its employees, and allow employees ...
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  • time, one may probably date his first petition to Queen Elizabeth. The ... In the second petition of 1593, Lyly wrote "Thirteen yeres your ...
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  • what was wrong. In 637, Wei submitted a petition containing a number of advices ... ====Petition on Ten Thoughts (十思疏) and other advises==== ...
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  • a list of rights and grievances, and petition King George for redress ... Congress in the event that their petition was unsuccessful in halting ...
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  • have set up blogs and started an online petition to save the temple and the ... The online petition mentioned how the Land Transport Authority spent ...
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  • was also one of the signatories of the petition to the king of England for ... was among the signatories to the famous petition to the king for the establishment ...
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  • and signed the remonstrance (a type of petition) of the thirteen bishops to Lord John Russell against Renn Dickson Hampden's appointment ...
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  • also petitioned against the Union. Not one petition in favor of an incorporating union was received by Parliament. On the day the treaty was signed ...
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  • ::Petition (3:2) ::God’s powerful presence in history (3:3 – 15) ... confession of trust in God, a petition to God to intervene (expressed ...
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  • The case resulted from a petition to the Court by William Marbury ... Because Marbury filed his petition for the writ of mandamus directly ...
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  • the Commission adjudicated whether a petition qualified to be heard by ... findings" even though individuals petition the court. States are the ...
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  • to the Sacred Heart. In 1873, by petition of president Gabriel García Moreno, Ecuador was the first country in the world to be consecrated to ...
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  • Six million signatures were collected for a petition to Congress to pass the law, termed by a 2006 article in The Nation as "the largest petition ...
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  • mansion. After Chu Suiliang submitted a petition stating that Fang's ... Goguryeo, and therefore wrote an earnest petition urging the cessation of ...
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  • to make an exception (decided case-by-case, via petition to the ICZN or ICBN). ==Type genus== A type genus is that genus from which the name of ...
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  • vigils, rallies, demonstrations, petition drives, statements to and ... boycott of 1791, and the second great petition drive of 1806). The labor ...
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  • corps commanders, met in secret and prepared a petition to the president. Although the author of the petition is not known, historians suspect it was ...
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  • established, and its founders presented a petition to the City of Toronto to ... In 1993, the OBHS successfully filed a petition in Ontario to proclaim ...
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  • The Public Library of Science began in early 2001, as an online petition initiative by Patrick O. Brown, a biochemist at Stanford University ...
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  • due to armed unrest, but it created a petition of Slavic demands to the ... # To send a petition containing the Slavic demands to the emperor ...
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  • restrictions infringe on the right to petition government officials, which ... it as an infringing on the right to petition, by making it impossible ...
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  • the freedom of assembly; the freedom to petition; and the rights to be free ... *the right of petition *an independent judiciary (the Sovereign was ...
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  • should put aside their anxieties, but petition God in grateful prayer. They should strive for what is noble and good, and follow whatever is ...
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  • targeted for breakup, but was saved by a petition signed by 15,000 of its trade union workers and their families. After the signing of the peace ...
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  • eight Paris sections had presented a petition to the Convention couched ... when the Commune was to present a new petition against the twenty-two. ...
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  • He accompanied Sir John Russell to Rome to help petition Pope Clement VII to grant Henry VIII a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon ...
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  • for emperors. Zhang Jiuling submitted a petition asking him to carry out such religious sacrifices, and Emperor Xuanzong, following his advice ...
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  • Edwards and Irene Parlby signed the petition to the Supreme Court of ... Assembly for eugenic sterilization. In a petition, she wrote that mentally ...
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  • with the child, the non-custodial parent can petition the court to temporarily stop support payments. In most jurisdictions the two rights and obligations ...
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  • In 781, King Elfwald sent Alcuin to Rome to petition the Pope for official confirmation of York’s status as an archbishopric and to confirm ...
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  • decision on the matter. Before an answer to their petition came, the same bishops again appealed to the Holy See on an entirely different matter. Before ...
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  • Members of the KNA met in San Francisco to decide on a petition to ... Fourteen Points, they drafted a "Petition for a Call of the National ...
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  • The Second Council of Ephesus was a church synod in 449 C.E. It was convoked by Emperor Theodosius II as an ecumenical council to deal with unresolved ...
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  • there he went to Constantinople, and, in a petition personally presented to the emperor in 360, repudiated the accusations of his opponents and sought ...
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  • its (Union) 76 gas stations, prompting a petition campaign by fans hoping ... On January 20, 2007, a Wall Street Journal article about the petition ...
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  • suffragists drafted a universal suffrage petition demanding that both women ... [http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/petuniv.html Suffrage Petition, 1866; ...
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  • On July 8, Congress extended the Olive Branch Petition to the British Crown as a final attempt at reconciliation. However, it was received too ...
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  • g_For_Putins_Ouster/1980911.html Petition Calling For Putin's Ouster Gaining Momentum In Russia] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (March ...
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  • was not entirely a man of peace is indicated by a petition for absolution he filed in Tours, dated February 28, 1461, in which he admitted to being part ...
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  • ===Parliamentary Concerns and the Petition of Right=== [[Image:Sir ... Cromwell). The new Parliament drew up the Petition of Right, and Charles accepted ...
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