Sentences with phrase «citizens petitions with»

In 2009, Dr. Kummerow filed a citizen petition with the FDA calling for a ban on synthetic trans fats.

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Last week, the parents of two young men who died earlier this year after ingesting caffeine powder met with Food and Drug Administration officials to deliver a citizen petition urging the agency to ban the sale of powdered caffeine.

But when that parent bands together with other, like - minded parents, or when that one concerned citizen starts an online petition and garners thousands of signatures, then they become a force to be reckoned with.

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Yet now the dairy industry is getting a hearing on its 2009 citizen's petition (PDF linked here) asking FDA for permission to abandon those front label disclosures for artificially dairy sweetened products — and not just on flavored milk but also on seventeen other dairy products having nothing to do with schools, including whipping cream, sour cream, nonfat dry mik and more.

A group of Cary residents called Citizens for Better Communities collected a petition with about 1,900 signatures asking that the Park District condemn the property, Renner said.

Needing 2,353 signatures - 10 percent of the park district «s registered voters - citizens submitted petitions with 2,920 names to the park district on Aug. 20.

But on Tuesday, three citizens filed objections to the petitions, claiming they are riddled with forgeries and reveal an overall «pattern of fraud,» according to a filing with the Election Commission.

Patrick Flynn, a former commissioner who formed an organization called Citizens for Better Government with former treasurer Ray Conway, said about 50 of the 62 people who attended the meeting Thursday have signed petitions asking Commissioners Mike O'Neill, Dale Larson and Robert McKenna to leave the Park Board.

This doesn't begin to account for the large number of Catholic Majority countries that will have their citizens petition their governments hard to rally (The United States is one of the few Christian Majority Nations with a Catholic Minority... the rest are usually reversed).

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Petitions are also commonly used by a number of parliaments (the UK parliamentary process is unfortunately particularly poorly designed) and local governments, providing citizens with the opportunity to petition their representatives to consider a particular matter.

In the United States, there's no formal way for citizens to petition the government directly with legislative proposals.

Sanders supporters — the bulk of which are senior citizens and members of the local democratic clubs — outright refused to carry the petitions with Shirley Huntley's name on them.

A room full of incensed citizens presented the town board with a petition signed by 800 Woodstockers asking the council

Standing outside the Board of Elections office in downtown Manhattan with four boxes full of petitions, Spitzer thanked the citizens of the city for «an outpouring of support.»

The government hopes the introduction of citizen's juries and greater use of petitions and consultations will lead to lowered crime, improved public health and an end to disillusionment with politics.

When 3,500 citizens of Clarkstown signed a petition asking for a Term Limits referendum to be placed on the 2011 ballot he insulted their intelligence by saying that anyone coming out of a supermarket «just wants to sign a piece of paper so they can get on with their lives».

During the 2011 election campaign while running against a strong advocate for Term Limits, Republican Ralph Sabatini, Supervisor Gromack defended his action by saying that the citizens petitioning him belonged to the «Tea Party fringe group» and then implied that Clarkstown citizens were so stupid that they would «sign a piece of paper just to get on with their lives.»

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

The White House's We The People initiative, an online petition that allows citizens to seek governmental action, is filled with what some would deem crazy requests.

The We the People initiative was conceived by the Obama administration in 2011 to provide citizens with a new way to petition the administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.

The Our Schools Now citizen initiative effort is officially off and running — with the filing Tuesday morning of a petition that, if approved by voters next year — would over three years raise the current state sales and personal income tax rates by around $ 700 million annually.

The KOTV page received over 850 comments, three petitions were started online with one getting over 10,000 signatures, a Facebook community was started over the incident, and the Wagoner County Sherriff's Office and the District Attorney's Office were inundated with calls from concerned citizens.

The Lucas County Commission had already decided to form an advisory committee for animal control following a citizens petition that was done last year with over 3,000 signatures on it that complained about the work being done by Lucas County's dog wardens.

During Humane Lobby Day 2012, citizens from across Colorado met with lawmakers at the Capitol and urged them to support a rulemaking petition for a rule change that would require a solid resting surface for dogs housed in wire - bottom cages in commercial dog breeding facilities licensed by the state.

In Springfield, when the city council passes a new ordinance, citizens are granted 30 days to file a petition with at least 2,500 signatures to request the new law be overturned.

French citizens, unhappy with the suspension of the popular weather analyst, are petitioning to have him returned to his job.

HSI delivered a the signatures of more than 18,000 concerned EU citizens along with a petition concerning Denmark's position on commercial whaling to the Danish government.

Meanwhile, Samantara filed a petition with the Supreme Court's panel governing mining activities, becoming the first citizen to use the legal system in an attempt to halt the Vedanta mine.

Samantara filed a petition with India's Supreme Court, becoming the first citizen to use the legal system in an attempt to halt the Vedanta mine.

They will also increase citizen access, make the petition process more convenient and allow citizens to interact with their government in a manner they have come to expect.

It has been held in this ruling of the Constitutional Court that the doubts concerning the compliance of the impugned legal act with the Constitution raised in the petitions the petitioners — a group of members of the Seimas and the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court — are related, inter alia, to the fact, how it is defined who are citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, what legislative possibilities for citizens of the Republic of Lithuania also to hold citizenship of another state there are, how the relations of loss of citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania are regulated (in particular, upon acquisition of the citizenship of another state).

The US citizen or permanent resident completes the immigrant visa petition on behalf of the foreign family member and files the petition with the USCIS along with proof of eligibility to sponsor the petition — evidence of US citizenship or permanent status and also proof of the petitioner's relationship with the beneficiary of the petition — the foreign family member.

If you agree with David Vaver's article above and are a UK citizen then please sign the online petition to limit copyright terms to 20 years and encourage your networks to sign it as appropriate:

European citizens with something to hide can now petition Google to remove search results pertaining to their names.

All eyes will now be on South Korea as it mulls its position on the matter: more than 212,000 citizens have signed a petition to stop the government from clamping down on cryptocurrency trading, and any petition with more than 200,000 signatures prompts a response from officials within 30 days in the country.

The plan to halt trading has been met with opposition from both politicians and the country's citizens, over 100,000 of whom have signed a petition demanding that the government step back from adopting the measure.

Currently, the Brazilian government is exploring the possibility of using a mobile app based on the Ethereum Blockchain network with which residents and citizens can submit petition votes.