Sentences with phrase «signed petitions»

One challenge is to find Democrats who have not already signed petitions for Balter, making signatures for any other candidate invalid.

People who legitimately wanted to stop Common Core signed the petitions for this line, now to be used as Astorino's plaything.

Since the election of President Donald Trump, many people on the Left have staged vitriolic protests against the new President with a massive Women's March in cities across the United States, penned articles, signed petitions, and speeches at the Golden Globe.

The PNC Chairman's call for leniency follows the many sympathisers, mainly from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who have signed petitions and held vigils in solidarity with the Montie three.

Last week, several clean energy and conservation groups dropped off thousands of signed petitions to urge Cuomo to set an aggressive goal.

Staten Island Republican Rep. Daniel Donovan maintains that two men associated with his campaign never impersonated Board of Elections investigators when they questioned Conservative Party voters who had signed petitions for his GOP primary rival, Michael Grimm.

Forty academics have already resigned and 4,000 have signed petitions.

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.

Enough residents of the Lockport Township Park District in northern Will County have signed petitions to force a referendum on a $ 6 million bond issue planned by park district officials to pay for not only what they say is a much - needed new golf course, but a recreation center and major renovations to the district «s other facilities.

They have helped entomologists capture rare insects on disappearing virgin prairie, taken part in a skit on the whooping crane's perilous migration, learned to identify invasive weeds choking sensitive waterways, done surveys on native bee numbers, and signed petitions to pass laws to better conserve monarch butterfly habitat.

Odelson said he was surprised to learn that about 500 people who signed petitions were not registered voters — «an extraordinary amount.»

Several residents signed petitions against the development, while several business owners supported it.

A big thank you to all the people who signed the petitions and all the sweet people on Twitter who helped to further the cause with their invaliable retweets and signatures!

We organized protests, signed petitions, attracted national and international media attention, met with government officials, and threatened lawsuits.

All those good - hearted people who demonstrated outside nuclear bases, who signed petitions and held parades — all of them knew why they felt so close to the edge, and all of them knew why their dreams were filled with visions of the world's end.

While hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions urging it to remain illegal, many of them Christians, there was also strong support for gay marriage across the UK.

More than 100,000 South Korea residents have signed petitions asking the government there to step back from any plans to close the country's cryptocurrency exchanges.

I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of coal and oil extraction!!

He is also asking owners of Tesla vehicles to sign a petition and send personal messages to Musk.

But you can always visit Save the Internet and sign the petition if you're interested in preserving the voice of small businesses online.

About 1.23 million people have signed a petition on Change.org asking Snapchat to remove the update, saying that the redesign made the app harder to use.

So far more than 200,000 people have signed the petition.

In Finland, a sizable 53,000 citizens signed a petition demanding their own referendum on EU membership.

Although thousands of people have signed a petition to have shoemaker Adidas drop rapper Kanye West over his slavery comments, the German firm says it hasn't had any internal conversations about ending the partnership.

Still, Trujillo stressed that Uber's «toxic culture» needs to change — even if many of the company's workers have said they supported the status quo, with more than 1,000 employees signing a petition to reinstate Kalanick as CEO.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

As the company anticipates more explosions at the plant, more than 10,000 people have signed a petition asking Arkema to release the list «to either give residents some peace of mind or know the dangers that potentially face them,» according to NBC News.

In France, 16 huge - net - worth types, including L'Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt and Total SA chief executive Christophe de Margerie, signed a petition calling for a «special contribution» by the super-rich to help the country through its current budget crisis, which threatens France's AAA credit rating.

Jean - Paul Agon, chairman and CEO of cosmetics giant L'Oréal — who last year signed a petition advocating a greater contribution from the rich — expressed displeasure at the 75 % gouge.

And the latest Uber news: Employees have signed a petition to reinstate Kalanick.

Swan Chamber of Commerce vice-president Eddie Peters said the Rothgard proposal had received strong community support in Midland with around 3800 people signing petitions supporting the development.

The petition, created by an anonymous person on Tuesday, reads: «If you believe The Weinstein Company should completely dissolve after 30 years of sexual abuse against innocent women please join me in signing this petition to honor the victims and their bravery.»

I just signed this petition to tell @govherbert to save @Zenefits and innovation in Utah.

She was originally meant to stay at the Bowling Green plaza for only a week, but thousands signed a petition to make her a permanent public work of art, and by the end of March, the city of New York had agreed to let her stay for a year.

In October, Speakable launched its first product, the Action Button, which adds to relevant news articles options to take a poll, sign a petition, or donate to vetted nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits.

More than 1.23 million people signed a petition on Change.org asking Snapchat to remove a recently installed redesign that, they say, makes the app harder to use.

Something that took hardly any time at all was the immediate backlash from citizens aimed at South Korea's official presidential Blue House website; heavy traffic temporarily disabled the site and by Thursday afternoon, 55,000 South Koreans had signed a petition requesting a stay on the crackdown.

Hundreds of students at Swarthmore College had signed a petition requesting that the Israeli hummus no longer be sold on campus.

Over 17,000 sign petition against Indian crypto ban: A petition with over 17,000 signatures was tabled against Indian Reserve Bank's much - criticized move of banning cryptocurrencies in the country.

Representative Claudia Tenney was one of 11 Republicans to sign a petition calling on Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others to be investigated.

The bill required 66.6 percent of voters to sign a petition to trigger a recall by - election.

I have signed the petition link on your page and will tell anyone that will listen that this must STOP.

CETA is highly controversial, with more than three million Europeans signing a petition against CETA and its twin agreement TTIP.

Tell Premier Christy Clark that you want a poverty reduction plan and an end to the maternity leave clawback by signing the petition at www.michellemungall.ca

Stop the progressive income tax Sign the petition today to tell your lawmaker to oppose the progressive income tax.

At the time of writing, 223,055 people have already signed the petition.

Coming on the heels of multiple reports about terrible working conditions in Chinese factories making Apple products, almost 50,000 have already signed a petition calling for Apple's next iPhone to be ethical.

Download and sign the petition urging the Government of Canada to instruct Canada Post to add postal banking, with a mandate for financial inclusion.

The higher post-constitutional authority would be an amorphous group whose members would include the New York Tim es Editorial Board, The primetime hosts of MSNBC and whatever list of academics the Democratic party could scrape together to sign petitions in favor of why we should contemptuously ignore / slavishly obey constitutional provision X.

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