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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 ...

prominent in the 1628 drafting of the Petition of Right. ... in helping to draft the British Petition of Right, a charter of liberties ...

==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 ...

It asserts the Subject's right to petition the Monarch and the Subject ... ** freedom to petition the king ** freedom from a peace-time standing ...

nine Articles; he did not, however, sign the petition (called the "Feathers" petition from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers tavern ...

His well known "Candlemakers' petition" cleverly highlights ... in April of 1834. It was a response to a petition by the merchants of Bordeaux ...

towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. ... ===Petition and preparation for the March=== The decision to prepare ...

she had obtained 6,000 signatures on a petition for peace and gained media ... a "lobbying effort through a petition for peace, their Citizen ...

head of the Perpipatos, to present an Athenian petition before the senate. According to Plutarch, in Life of Cato the Elder, studious Roman youths ...

=== Petition for a "Mahayana Ordination Center" === Saicho wished to establish a different ordination platform from Hinayana (Theravada ...

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 ...

time, one may probably date his first petition to Queen Elizabeth. The ... In the second petition of 1593, Lyly wrote "Thirteen yeres your ...

what was wrong. In 637, Wei submitted a petition containing a number of advices ... ====Petition on Ten Thoughts (十思疏) and other advises==== ...

a list of rights and grievances, and petition King George for redress ... Congress in the event that their petition was unsuccessful in halting ...

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 ...

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 ...

and signed the remonstrance (a type of petition) of the thirteen bishops to Lord John Russell against Renn Dickson Hampden's appointment ...

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 ...

::Petition (3:2) ::God’s powerful presence in history (3:3 – 15) ... confession of trust in God, a petition to God to intervene (expressed ...

The case resulted from a petition to the Court by William Marbury ... Because Marbury filed his petition for the writ of mandamus directly ...

the Commission adjudicated whether a petition qualified to be heard by ... findings" even though individuals petition the court. States are the ...

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 ...

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 ...

mansion. After Chu Suiliang submitted a petition stating that Fang's ... Goguryeo, and therefore wrote an earnest petition urging the cessation of ...

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 ...

vigils, rallies, demonstrations, petition drives, statements to and ... boycott of 1791, and the second great petition drive of 1806). The labor ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Public Library of Science began in early 2001, as an online petition initiative by Patrick O. Brown, a biochemist at Stanford University ...

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 ...

restrictions infringe on the right to petition government officials, which ... it as an infringing on the right to petition, by making it impossible ...

the freedom of assembly; the freedom to petition; and the rights to be free ... *the right of petition *an independent judiciary (the Sovereign was ...

should put aside their anxieties, but petition God in grateful prayer. They should strive for what is noble and good, and follow whatever is ...

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 ...

eight Paris sections had presented a petition to the Convention couched ... when the Commune was to present a new petition against the twenty-two. ...

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 ...

for emperors. Zhang Jiuling submitted a petition asking him to carry out such religious sacrifices, and Emperor Xuanzong, following his advice ...

Edwards and Irene Parlby signed the petition to the Supreme Court of ... Assembly for eugenic sterilization. In a petition, she wrote that mentally ...

with the child, the non-custodial parent can petition the court to temporarily stop support payments. In most jurisdictions the two rights and obligations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

there he went to Constantinople, and, in a petition personally presented to the emperor in 360, repudiated the accusations of his opponents and sought ...

its (Union) 76 gas stations, prompting a petition campaign by fans hoping ... On January 20, 2007, a Wall Street Journal article about the petition ...

suffragists drafted a universal suffrage petition demanding that both women ... [http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/petuniv.html Suffrage Petition, 1866; ...

On July 8, Congress extended the Olive Branch Petition to the British Crown as a final attempt at reconciliation. However, it was received too ...

g_For_Putins_Ouster/1980911.html Petition Calling For Putin's Ouster Gaining Momentum In Russia] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (March ...

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 ...

===Parliamentary Concerns and the Petition of Right=== [[Image:Sir ... Cromwell). The new Parliament drew up the Petition of Right, and Charles accepted ...

by this that she traveled to Jerusalem in 66 to petition Florus to spare the Jews, but to no avail. [[Image:Francesco Hayez 017.jpg|thumb|275px ...

” his first political work. In 1774 his petition failed, and Paine was dismissed ... George Washington endorsed his petition to Congress for financial ...

the king is bound of right to permit him (upon his petition) to use his royal name for repealing the patent in a scire facias. Blackstone ...

to Valentinian II a strong but unsuccessful petition praying for the restoration of the Altar of Victory to its ancient station in the hall of the ...

* The King’s answer to the petition accompanying the Grand Remonstrance, December 23, 1641 * The King's attempt to seize the five members ...

Following the petition of his father, Montaigne started to work on the first translation of the Spanish monk, Raymond Sebond's Theologia ...

down Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's petition for mercy before his execution. Yoseph Carmel. Itzchak Ben Zvi from his Diary in the President ...

marry per the old common-law tradition must petition the appropriate court in their state for dissolution of marriage. Since the mid-1990s, the ...

History Project which submitted the initial petition for the recognition of Women's History Month, is a national clearinghouse providing information ...

of the detached linga would the sages be able to petition Shiva. The sages then returned to the Pine Forest, now ready to recognize Shiva should he ...

seven days in which to submit a review petition. The court granted a stay ... On March 24, 1979, the Supreme Court rejected the petition. Zia upheld ...

Adams chaired a town meeting which formed a petition, presented to acting governor Thomas Hutchinson, demanding the removal of two British regiments ...

Pat O'Brien because Cagney had signed a petition in support of the anti-clerical Spanish Republican government in the then-ongoing Spanish Civil ...

by an alumni council or by alumni petition, then an election is held, and finally the winner is, by longstanding agreement, appointed to the ...

before the New York Legislature, though her petition bore only five signatures. At about the same time, in 1840, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller became ...

1527, Henry instructed Cardinal Wolsey to petition Pope Clement VII for an ... canonized with John Fisher after a mass petition of English Catholics in ...

of other communities set about drafting a petition, Northwest Resistance ... 16 Riel forwarded the committee's petition to the government, along ...

an end to water fluoridation in an online petition to Congress.[http://www ... Their petition highlights eight recent events that they say mandates ...

was once again pardoned, this time after a petition for his early release was taken to Louisiana Governor O.K. Allen by the Lomaxes. ...

major sutras one thousand times as a vow and a petition to Amida Buddha. He soon abandoned this vow. Honen had simplified the theory of salvation and ...

20, 1792. They did not support the petition of July 17, 1791 for the king's dethronement, but instead published their own petition calling ...

Japan to surrender. He drafted the Szilárd petition advocating demonstration of the atomic bomb. However, with the European war concluded and the ...

In the spring of 1838, Chief Ross presented a petition with more than 15,000 Cherokee signatures, asking Congress to invalidate the treaty. Many white ...

came to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet to petition for explanations of denials of their right to emigrate from the U.S.S.R., as affirmed under ...

and many credit the poet Louis Aragon's petition to the Soviet government as instrumental in Paradzhanov's early release. His good friend ...

Divine Will, the people of Nineveh actively petition God to change His mind. Jonah even objects to God's showing mercy to the Ninevites, seeming ...

women of France presented the Women's Petition to the National Assembly in which they proposed a decree giving women equality. The Declaration ...

right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." [[Image:EleanorRooseveltHumanRights ...

million. In May 1924, a hearing, through a petition, was heard by Colonel Herbert Deakyne in a request to use land for the construction of the Golden ...

On August 16, Robespierre presented a petition to the Legislative Assembly ... most of the Parisian sections sent a petition threatening the Girondins ...

Steblin discovered Schubert's marriage petition in the archives of the Lichtental church. The petition (proposed bride: Therese Grob) was refused ...

courage throughout the ordeal, prompted him to petition Congress to grant her a military pension. By a special act of Congress, pension certificate number ...

led by R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. and signed a petition to enforce the 1939 Neutrality Act. The petition was circulated nationally and was the inspiration ...

were drafting a state constitution in order to petition Congress for statehood, opposition to any candidates supporting either the proviso or popular ...

the end of his life Shimon was sent to Rome to petition the emperor for the abolition certain anti-Jewish laws (Me'i. 17b). Shimon's success ...

of excited Jews rushed to Caesarea to petition him for the removal of the obnoxious ensigns. He ignored them for five days, but the next day ...

out when Robin's Judaism prompted him to petition for his late grandmother to be recognized as Jewish. The devout Catholic Spark reacted by ...

Rivera, a dedicated Trotskyite, used his fame to petition the Mexican government to grant Trotsky and his wife asylum after they were forced out of ...

career, signing an infamous 1953 political petition condemning Polish priests accused of treason in a show trial.Michał St. de Zieleśkiewicz, [http://www ...

Application for a charter is a petition to the Queen in Council. To receive a Royal Charter, the organization must have corporate members who ...

and Prior from 1136, to petition the cause. Osbert had written lives of saints Edmund, Ethelbert and Edburga to which he added one of Edward ...

to the forum for the purpose of reading a petition, written by the senators ... As Caesar began to read the false petition, the aforementioned Servilius ...

In 1820, the Merchants' Petition, written by Thomas Tooke, was presented to the Commons demanding free trade and an end to protective tariffs ...

James I. He was the chief promoter of a petition to James I for letters patent ... he appears as the chief promoter of the petition to James I for letters patent ...

decision to the House of Lords; however, a petition for permission to appeal was submitted directly to the Law Lords and granted in July 2005. Argument ...

Two years later, in 1116, Yejong sent another petition in which he reiterated his request for ritual instruments, whereupon Huizong sent an even ...

basis and claims were entertained under a petition of right that needed to ... lawsuit, usually in a state court, or petition a private arbitrator to ...

consent, infringe the right to petition, raise a standing army during peacetime without parliamentary consent, deny the right to bear arms to ...

Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed. In the majority of cases, ...

After World War II, Haley was able to petition the Coast Guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism, and by 1949, he had become ...

leaders who visited the White House to present a petition favoring federal anti-lynching legislation. As her business developed, she organized ...

mistress Empress Elizabeth of Russia endorsed his petition to establish the university in Moscow. The church of Saint Tatiana was later built in the university ...

as agent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government ... New York and Pennsylvania presented their petition for abolition. Their argument ...

for active military service. In 2007, a petition to the German parliament to revive the Iron Cross decoration received over 5,000 signatures. ...

lifeforms. By 1982, he was able to get a petition advocating the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence SETI published in the journal Science ...

Occasionally, players will petition the NFL to allow them to wear a number that is not in line with the numbering system. Brad Van Pelt, a linebacker ...

" "Non-Partisan," "Nom. Petition," "Nomination," "Not Designated," and "Court Order." Although ...

and dangerous problem. Taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces, and hoping that their ...

the Ohio state legislature approved a new petition for statehood that was delivered ... amendments have been proposed by petition to the legislature hundreds ...

but rather as an intermediary figure who can petition her husband for the dispensation of grace upon human beings. In spite of this trend, some Shakta ...

Shortly thereafter the association filed a petition with the Department of the Interior for a reservation and submitted to an adjudicative process for ...

ratify all its decrees and definitions. This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which ...

peace proposal known as the Olive Branch Petition. The proposal was quickly ... #039; behalf after the Olive Branch Petition. Many modern British historians ...

confused about how to treat The Charter; the Petition of Right in 1628 was meant as a reaffirmation of The Charter, but was defeated by the Attorney General ...

President Mário Soares launched a petition urging the European Union to start membership talks with Cape Verde. Cape Verde annually runs a high ...

In the 2001 election, three parties filed a legal petition challenging the election of ruling party candidate Levy Mwanawasa. The new president ...

Rutledge chaired a committee that drew up a petition to the House of Lords, and he was responsible for the removal of a concession that acknowledged the ...

when it dissolved itself in April 1793. A petition was made to the king early in 1793, and that year the first enfranchisement of Catholics was ...

were to agree on this issue, that a petition to this effect sent to Rome might result in an annulment. Cranmer was employed to compile a written ...

In 1957, Pauling began a petition drive in cooperation with biologist Barry Commoner, who had studied radioactive strontium-90 in the baby teeth ...

prompted U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to petition Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on behalf of the American people in July 1905. On August 22, 1905, police ...

believed the two rivers were one and the same, the petition suggested, only because Chinese settlers had falsely accused the Korean farmers of crossing ...

Group, a body of 114 notables who had signed a petition in May calling for elections and improved human rights. During the contrived trial that resulted ...

Pastrana and other officials denied this petition arguing that neither they, nor the Colombian Army, could guarantee her safety during the turmoil ...

procedures such as the House discharge petition process (the process of ... The one successful discharge petition from the 104th Congress, session ...

are more likely to persuade others to sign a petition (Eagly and Chaiken, 1993). The social psychological mechanisms of attitude formation and attitude ...

giving residents the right to secure, by petition, the cancellation or granting of liquor licenses in their district. The Licensing Act of 1873 ...

unusual" punishment clause outside of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Clarence Hill had already exhausted all of his legal appeals through ...

crowd gathered at the Champ de Mars to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the monarchy. Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the Mayor of Paris, ordered ...

which is believed to come word-for-word from the petition presented by Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham to the assembly which met on June 25, 1483 ...

In 1704 and 1709, another petition was filed in hopes of a monetary settlement. In 1711, a compensation of 578 pounds and 12 shillings was divided ...

death of this pope, and therefore handed his petition to Benedict III, who decided it (Hincmar, ep. xl in P.L., CXXXVI, 85). All these witnesses prove ...

Tax Board." 219 Cal. App.2d 1710. (petition for Sup. Ct. hearing denied). *1977. "Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady (Chairman), Mississippi ...

com/kennebec.org/fks/neptunepetition.html Petition of the Chiefs of the Penoscot Tribe of Indians.] Atlantic Salmon History Project. Retrieved ...

to organize constitutional conventions and petition for admission as states equal to the original thirteen. Not all provisions were promptly or ...

in July 1978 the Hiss defense filed a petition in federal court for a writ of coram nobis, asking that the guilty verdict be overturned due ...

On August 20, 1955, Greece submitted a petition to the United Nations requesting the application of the principle of self-determination to the ...

content and the main purpose of worship was to petition the gods to protect the city or the state and make it victorious over its enemies. There was ...

Muskingum to receive a degree. His petition was rejected, but Muskingum awarded Glenn an honorary doctorate after his Mercury space flight; they ...

of children. Chicago tried again, with a petition signed by 3.4 million schoolchildren, for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition and New ...

of press and publication, religion, assembly, and petition. But the state is not compelled to aid anyone in carrying out any of those freedoms. If you ...

of James I, following the so-called Millenary Petition, the Hampton Court conference of 1604, a meeting of bishops and Puritan divines, resisted the pressure ...

to such things as freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly, political participation, religion, and non-discrimination in housing, jobs and employment ...

Schuyler to invade Canada. He also circulated a petition to stave off a Massachusetts Committee's inquiry into his alleged misdeeds. He collected ...

the Commission to legislate in an area via a petition carrying one million signatures, but it would not be binding. Diana Wallis and Severine ...

of removal as president, but was saved by a petition signed by 15,000 employees requesting that he be allowed to remain. Matsushita convinced General ...

was wound up and applicants could petition the court directly. The nature of the Convention is that it is drafted in broad terms, in a similar ...

the U.S. Congress to make Nauvoo a territory. His petition was declined. In February, 1844, Smith announced his candidacy for President of the ...

On July 17, 1791, Hébert was at the Champ de Mars to sign a petition to demand the removal of King Louis XVI and was caught up in the subsequent ...

rancher named Pierce Cunningham, circulated a petition to have Jackson Hole saved for the "education and enjoyment of the Nation as a whole." ...

mourning gradually evolved into a "petition" nature, as students ... once again incarcerated for continuing to petition for political reform in ...

federal acknowledgment, finally filing a petition in 1993. Federal acknowledgment was awarded in 1999. They are based in Dorr, Michigan. ...

Itzhak Ben-Zvi turned down Eichmann's petition for mercy. A large number of prominent persons sent requests for clemency. Ben-Zvi replied quoting ...

turned down the opportunity to file a petition for mercy. He cheerfully expressed his preference for death to seeking clemency from those who ...

Empress Dowager Cixi1 ( c=慈禧太后|p=Cíxǐ Tàihòu|w=Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou ) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced ...

had been cheated by the common-law system would petition the King in person. For example, they might argue that an award of damages (at common law) was ...

in the same way and so when the Chartist's petition had been rejected by the House of Commons a meeting was held on April 10, 1848 to discuss how ...

In his Embassy to Gaius, Philo says he was carrying a petition which described the sufferings of the Alexandrian Jews, and which asked the emperor ...

feared results of granting Mr. Scott's petition: It would give to persons of the negro race, …the right to enter every other State whenever ...

suspended their operations, pending a petition to Parliament. A select Committee was appointed, and concluded that steam carriages were safe ...

friend, Texas theater owner Skipper Cherry, to petition and join the Masonic Order in California. He returned to Texas to become a 32nd degree Scottish ...

aid. On August 16, Robespierre presented the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, demanding the establishment of a revolutionary ...

refers to himself as Pontifex Maximus in a petition to the Emperor for judicial immunity, but gives no source for this statement. Other sources ...

bishops (known as the Seven Bishops) submitted a petition requesting the reconsideration of the King's religious policies, they were arrested and ...

#039;s segregation rules in 1962, he sent a petition to Mayor Art Hanes' office asking that public facilities be desegregated. Hanes responded ...

towards her with a pistol in one hand and a petition to free Irish prisoners in the other. The gun was not loaded; the youth's aim was most likely ...

by name Naveen Jindal filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court, seeking the striking down of that restriction. When Jindal flew the flag ...

Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide] Petition Project Category:Physical sciences Category:Environmental science 227428481 ...

weapons, telling them it was illegal to present a petition in arms, although their march to the Tuileries was not banned. They invited the officials ...

in England. It mentions his trip to Rome to petition the Celtic church to the Pope, and it claims he travelled in his brother's Viking ships ...

to the Winter Palace to deliver a petition This petition asked for "an eight-hour day, a minimum daily wage ...

once more, again temporarily. The Jews had to petition annually for permission to live there, and were restricted from owning any property, even within ...

in 1848. In 1881, Otto von Bismarck received a petition with 250,000 signatures demanding severe anti-Jewish measures. The petition said that Jews were ...

law, its accomplishment lay in the drafting of the petition of Slavic demands that provided a blueprint for equality among nations. The old Bohemian Diet ...

England; he was presented with the Millenary Petition, a document which it is claimed contained one thousand signatures, by Puritans requesting further ...

where Ramkhamhaeng was said to hear the petition of any subject who rang the bell at the palace gate to summon him, the king was revered as ...

to any rumors that were spreading. They raised a petition to al-Ḥākim and he forgave them. ==Death and succession== ===The Disappearance of ...

on June 15, 2020, and the Court certified the petition on May 17, 2021, limited to the question, "Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective ...

in 1928, where he presented the "Petition of the Negro Race" to the League of Nations. This statement outlined the abuse of Africans ...

S. state in 1816, one of its first acts was to petition the federal government for removal of the Indians. ==Geography== Indiana is bounded on ...

of hospitals, and only by direct petition from the citizens of London, were the hospitals St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, and St Mary ...

time, asking him to consider a local petition. The letter was filled with ... others: the right to vote, the right to petition, and equal eligibility for ...

left". However, in 1650 she resisted a petition from the nobility to reduce the level of tax against property, which in the circumstances did ...

In 2009, after receiving a petition with over 30,000 signatures, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf ...

in 1965, Pope Paul VI denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature. Pope John Paul I, a few years before his election, wrote ...

Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight. An immense crowd ...

as evil, however; and individuals may petition for acceptance of a particular technology in the local community. In some communities, the church ...

In most instances, however, the party must petition the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. By custom, certiorari is granted on the vote of ...

press, the freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition. *Second Amendment: declares "a well regulated militia" as "necessary to ...

to the Book of Exodus, the Hebrews' petition was granted only after a series of miraculous plagues were visited upon the Egyptians. Moses ...

a closer intimacy with God, as well as an act of petition. Some take up a regular fast of one or two days a week as a spiritual observance. Holiness movements ...

that Scarrooyady, an Iroquois Chief, had to petition the Governor of Pennsylvania to intervene in trade: Your Traders now bring scarce anything ...

to the breaking point. The company was forced to petition Parliament for assistance. This was the background to the Charter Act of 1813 (53 Geo. III ...

founding of the Republic of China in 1911. The petition was accepted, and the ban was lifted in 1912, although male Dan continued to be popular after ...

of India. The main purpose of the festival is to petition the goddess to destroy evil by diminishing the ego and all negative aspects of the human psyche ...

subjects who resolved to shirk European rule and petition through military force for their freedom from it. His service on the side of the locals would ...

problems posed by Puritans in the Millenary Petition. According to an eyewitness account, Dr John Rainolds "moved his majesty that there might be ...

Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority ...

adopted in 1988 by a vote following an Initiative Petition. ===Ancestry Groups=== The largest reported ancestries in the 2000 census were German ...

Taino slaves for prostitution. Although his petition was refused by the Crown, in February 1495, Columbus took 1600 Arawak (a different tribe, who ...

This was seen by many MPs as a breach of the Petition of Right, who argued that the freedom from arrest privilege extended to goods. When he requested ...

[[Image:BarbauldMouse.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"The Mouse's Petition" from Barbauld's Poems (1772)]] ==Literary analysis== ...

a state beyond the Alleghenies was revived and a petition for the establishment of "Westsylvania" was presented to Congress, with the argument ...

and threatened wildlife and plants: 12-month petition finding and proposed rule to delist the mexican bobcat (Lynx rufus escuinapae). Environmental ...

the Emir. Individuals who were connected to this petition were deemed to be acting against the regime and were subsequently detained under the State Security ...

Benjamin F. Butler and William P. Black. The petition for certiorari was denied. 123 U.S. 131 (1887). [[Image:HayMarket100a.jpg|thumb|left|Folksinger ...

worship heaven and earth, and to offer a secret petition to the gods of heaven and earth, presumably seeking immortality. He decreed that he would return ...

Army and extended the Olive Branch Petition to the crown as an attempt at reconciliation. King George III refused to receive it, issuing instead ...

consent, infringe the right to petition, raise a standing army during peacetime without parliamentary consent, deny the right to bear arms to ...

reaction, the two other generals decided to petition for their own retirements to test Kangxi's resolve, thinking that he wouldn't risk offending ...

a change in the French Penal Code, he signed a petition, along with Jacques Derrida and Louis Althusser, among others, asking for the abrogation of some ...

At the same time, 500,000 copies of a petition written by Steiner, with suggestions for organizing a threefolding of society, were distributed ...

reform plan, the Belarusian people delivered a petition to him in December 1986 explaining the loss of their culture. In June 1988 at the rural ...

Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals ...

Long was expelled from school for distributing a petition against adding a twelfth year of schooling as a graduation requirement. After World War II, ...

system was beginning to form in Russia. A petition campaign was conducted seeking a wide variety of proposed changes, such as ending the war ...

freedom of religious expression, freedom of petition—in the workplace as they have outside of it? Most businesses say no. What are good or ...

info Genocide1915.info] History, articles, petition, pictures, quotations, forum, videos. * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4092933.stm BBC ...

Ghana in 2000. Its deliberations concluded with a Petition being served in the International Court at the Hague for US$ 777 trillion against the United ...

In March the police closed his house, after a petition by 30 townspeople, who called him fou roux ("the redheaded madman"). Signac visited him ...

Divorce is commenced by the issuing of a petition, which must be acknowledged by the other party. Whilst it is possible to defend a divorce, ...

A candidate for Freemasonry must petition a lodge in his community, obtaining an introduction by asking an existing member, who then becomes ...

The congregation decided to petition the English Crown for a charter to establish an English colony in the New World. Some were concerned about ...

The personnel involved were allowed to petition for the removal of the letters from their records at a future time. The reprimands were placed ...

Colonies, inventors could obtain patents through petition to a given colony's legislature. In 1641, Samuel Winslow was granted the first patent in ...

had made a 1500 mile journey on their open raft to petition Brazilian president Vargas about their working conditions. The four had become national folk ...

and students calling themselves the "Petition of Fifty" questioned Suharto's use of the national ideology Pancasila. The Indonesian ...

Indians nationwide to sign Gandhi's petition demanding Swaraj—independence — from the British. Meeting Gandhi a month later at the Gujarat ...

in the Cabinet, a majority of whom signed a petition declaring to the president "our deliberate opinion that, at this time, it is not safe ...

majlis; a public audience) and the right to petition them directly are well-established traditions. Saudi Arabia does not have much of a formal ...

new geographical splits) allowed them to petition statehood within the federation, granting not external independence but internal equality as ...

*The Petition of Right (1628) which demanded that no man could be taxed without consent of Parliament; *The National Covenant (1637) signed in ...

baptized (saints) throughout time enabling them to petition God for help in every day matters, as well as for forgiveness of sin, as well as for a deeper ...

done to his country in terms reminiscent of a petition he had presented to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1962. Five days later, he mysteriously died ...

Idso et al. (2016) further cite the Global Warming Petition Project, a 2015 statement signed by 31,478 American scientists, including 9,012 with ...

that any Court authority to consider Hamdan's petition had been eliminated by the jurisdiction-stripping Detainee Treatment Act of 2005. ...

properly responding to Houston's divorce petition.url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20038695,00.html|title=Bobby Brown Sues Whitney Houston ...

of Jackson's estate filed a petition in the United States Tax Court as a result of a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over ...

Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the tsar. When the procession reached the palace, Cossacks opened fire on the crowd, killing ...