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Example sentences for "petitioners"

Lexicographically close words:
petites; petitio; petition; petitioned; petitioner; petitioning; petitions; petits; petrel; petrels
  1. Jones and the charter petitioners it was not done.

  2. In compliance with request of petitioners from various Tribes in Kentucky, Great Chief of Records of the Great Council of the United States, Charles C.

  3. During the autumn of this great sun Mendenhall began an active canvas for petitioners for a charter for a Tribe of Red Men in Lexington, and with the assistance of O.

  4. The petitioners complained bitterly that though the church of England would not admit persons into sacred orders who were unfit and unworthy, yet the court of Rome would repeatedly recognise such as lawful ministers.

  5. Send names and addresses of Petitioners who have paid on another sheet, also state to which Klan they will be attached] The following is my report for the week ending .

  6. The result was that when slaves finally reached the islands under Garrevod's grant the prices demanded for them were so exorbitant that the purposes of the original petitioners were in large measure defeated.

  7. But it may readily be guessed that these petitioners were more moved by the interest of rival dentists than by their concern as Southern citizens.

  8. Accordingly, he determined to hearken to the petitioners in this matter.

  9. The petitioners strove to disqualify Hely "for Popery," but his conformity was admitted by the committee.

  10. But Josephus said that he would not go to him, because these pretended petitioners meant nothing that was good; he also restrained those friends of his who were zealous to go to him.

  11. However, Cumanus postponed their supplications to the other affairs he was then about, and sent the petitioners away without success.

  12. God bless your majesty, and counsel you in wisdom, your petitioners will ever pray.

  13. The petitioners pledged themselves to use all their exertions in support of the laws and government, and finally implored his majesty's clemency towards all those of the colonists who might return to their duty.

  14. The petitioners prayed his majesty, therefore, to dismiss his advisers on the instant, as the first step towards a redress of grievances which alarmed and afflicted his people.

  15. The petitioners and their adherents in parliament, repeated these complaints at every opportunity; but they did not venture to bring the question formally under the notice of the legislature.

  16. This petition was ordered to be referred to the committee on the bill, and the petitioners were also ordered to be heard by themselves or counsel.

  17. In this remonstrance every statement of the petitioners was denied, and the whole thing denounced as visionary.

  18. That your petitioners have long been exposed to injury in their reputation and property, from the want of a law by which the exclusive right to their respective writings may be secured to them in the United States of America.

  19. That such mutilation and alteration, with the retention of the authors' names, have been of late actually perpetrated by citizens of the United States: under which grievance, your petitioners have no redress.

  20. God ye must be listeners to your minister, not petitioners for spiritual graces.

  21. At their annual meeting on the eighth of March the Honorable Walter Spooner, a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1780, was chosen in behalf of the town to make answer to the petitioners in question.

  22. The petitioners most humbly requested the Massachusetts General Court to grant them relief from taxation.

  23. The allegations in the petition relate to the acts of the citizens, and inhabitants, and authorities of the State of Missouri, of which State the petitioners were, at the time, citizens or inhabitants.

  24. I was simply amusing myself with the petitioners and with the officer, and in reality I never could become spiteful.

  25. When petitioners used to come for information to the table at which I sat, I used to grind my teeth at them, and felt intense enjoyment when I succeeded in making anybody unhappy.

  26. The rule had been adopted only after it was clear that the petitioners simply sought to make Congress an instrument of an agitation which might lead to a dissolution of the Union.

  27. On one occasion in each House the subject had been considered upon a report of a committee, and decided against the petitioners with almost entire unanimity.

  28. It is in perfect keeping with the threat we almost daily hear; that if petitioners do not cease their efforts in the exercise of their constitutional rights, others will dissolve the Union.

  29. The petitioners have not trusted to my fallible judgment alone, but have declared, in written documents, the most solemn expression of their will.

  30. The Gentleman from South Carolina says, the petitioners are of a society not known in the laws or Constitution.

  31. If the petitioners were so uninformed: as to suppose that Congress could be guilty of a violation of the Constitution, yet, I trust we know our duty better than to be led astray by an application from any man, or set of men whatever.

  32. The citizens of the free States, the petitioners against slavery, the abolitionists of the free States in favor of amalgamation!

  33. Sir, the language towards this class of petitioners is very much changed of late; they formerly were pronounced idlers, fanatics, old women and school misses, unworthy of respect from intelligent and respectable men.

  34. He thought the subject was of general concern, and that the petitioners had no more right to interfere with it than any other members of the community.

  35. It was a horrible scene of anguish and desolation; for among these petitioners were many women, wives, mothers, daughters, whole families in distress.

  36. And so, when the petitioners were permitted to leave, the strong bent of their spirits directed them, not only to the Connecticut, but southward without the limits of the Massachusetts jurisdiction.

  37. On ordinary days, after dressing, she received petitioners of various classes, of whom there were always some.

  38. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is continually receiving many petitioners one after another.

  39. On the other hand, all the petitioners could really hope for was that there should be discussion.

  40. The anterooms were filled with petitioners of every sort, who, through bribes offered to the members of the imperial household, had penetrated thus far, and were now awaiting the appearance of the emperor.

  41. The wide corridor in which Joseph was accustomed receive his petitioners was crowded.

  42. Finally the petitioners remembered the "Controlorgang," and thither they repaired early in the morning.

  43. But the prayer was over, the petitioners fell prostrate to the earth, and still no sign of help from above!

  44. The Spanish customs which were once so popular in the palace, are unbecoming in this room, where all who enter it are nothing but petitioners seeking justice at my hands.

  45. They were the first to enter the palace on that day, and were so numerous that no other petitioners could obtain entrance.

  46. He came, and when he saw who were the petitioners of the day, his countenance expressed astonishment: but he did not depart from his usual habit, and walked slowly down the middle of the room, extending his hand to receive the petitions.

  47. But the people who were assembled in this hall of reception seemed more sanguine than is usual with petitioners for imperial favor.


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