Sentences with phrase «leaders said the petition»

The leaders said the petition garnered 43,000 supporters online.

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The leader of one of the organizations, the Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization, said the group plans to file an official petition with Elia asking her to remove him from office.

Speaking to newsmen immediately after withdrawing the quit notice issued to Igbos, spokesperson of CNG, Abudl - Azeez Suleiman, said, «In the meantime, we shall firmly pursue our petitions to the United Nations and the Nigerian federal authorities calling for the appropriate sanction of Nnamdi Kanu, other IPOB leaders and their sponsors in addition to labelling them a terror outfit.

Mr. Lopez failed to win a City Council seat after leaving Albany and even mulled a run against his successor, Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, before settling on petitioning for district leader and state committee, sources say.

[Another source says Rivera ultimately did not submit petition signatures for female district leader.]

A New York City Police Department detective says he has 300 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Dean Skelos» name from a Rockville Centre sports complex and park after the former State Senate Republican leader was convicted of public corruption.

After a successful 2012 fraud lawsuit in the neighboring 42nd District completely vacated the county committee, the county organization demanded that district leaders obtain letters of consent from county committee candidates before putting their names on petitions, sources say.

Local elected leaders say they aren't giving up their fight against helicopter noise despite the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to reject Southold Town's petition requesting that the controversial North Shore route be reconsidered.

«I authorized some of the district leaders in the district to begin circulating petitions after the 26th of the election day, and I will be considering my personal decision whether or not I will accept the signatures and move forward in a reelection bid... I said that I would not circulate petitions or would I submit petitions to the Board of Elections while I was running for Congress.

The PDP spokesman said, «It is instructive to inform you that our leaders, particularly our National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, have been receiving threats since the PDP filed a petition to the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations, detailing documented threats to democracy by the APC and its Federal Government, abuse of human rights, mass killings, extrajudicial executions, persecution of opposition and unabated constitutional violations.»

«The name of the petitioners, one Ngozi Okoli and another Rose Ogbonna, are unknown to the party but in the petition, they said they are president and secretary, respectively, of what they tagged Enugu State APC Women Leaders Forum.

Ernesto Yeboah, a youth leader of the Convention People's Party (CPP), who initiated the petition that compelled the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama's receipt of the Ford gift from a Burkinabe contractor, says the outcome of the probe clearly shows that the President can not be trusted to protect the sanctity of the country's laws and...

Peter LaVenia, secretary to the Upper Hudson Green Party, said the organization drafted Peltz when it got wind of a bid by another candidate to submit opportunity to ballot petitions that could allow a non-Green Party member to co-opt the ballot line through a write - in campaign — a tactic which party leaders don't look kindly on.

The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

In petitioning the USDA, industry leaders advocated just such an approach, saying, «Breaded dogfish sticks are ideal for use in domestic food assistance programs.»

* UPDATED An unprecedented number of charter school petitions could be denied next week because Los Angeles charter leaders are standing up against district policies they say require increasing amounts of time and money to satisfy and take away resources from the classroom.

Kruse says parents or teachers filing parent trigger petitions could negotiate with school leaders to include measures short of reorganizing.

An unprecedented number of charter school petitions could be denied next week because Los Angeles charter leaders are standing up against district policies they say require increasing amounts of time and money to satisfy and take away resources from the classroom.

Charter leaders say this opens up the possibility of multi-year agreements that coincide with charter school petitions which must be renewed every five years.

The roughly 200 protesters, parents and neighborhood residents who turned out for a fired up community meeting at Durham's Lakewood Elementary on Tuesday say they've racked up about 900 signatures on a petition for state leaders to keep the Innovative School District (ISD) out of the city's schools.

In the case that the judge does refuse and his bias is so blatant and over the top in some way (say you have a picture of him in KKK robes shaking the local klan leader's hand) and your client's skin color is remotely not white, you can also file a petition to a higher court for a «Writ of Prohibition».