Sentences with phrase «so by petitioning»

If a parent wants to reduce the other parent's contact with her minor child, she must do so by petitioning the court.

Quite frankly, if Lopez - Pierre wants to run for City Council he should do so by petitioning his way onto the Ku Klux Klan party.

Not exact matches

She's now started a petition urging the government to change the law so a judge can outline that rape can happen to anyone and be committed by anyone.

The petition states: «Ricardians (those who believe Richard was wrongly accused of usurping the crown by murdering his way to it, but that he was actually one of our most just and enlightened kings) are clearly aware that Shakespeare's play was fiction and probably written as a satire on the corruption of power, but members of the general public often believe that Shakespeare was accurate, so each time the play is produced it only adds to the unfair reputation that Richard has been given.

The same function played by the «jester» — to mock and ridicule the petitioner so as to see how well the petition stands up.

As I write, the Coalition for Marriage petition against gay marriage has reached a total of 600,783 signatures and by the time this is in print, that total will be considerably higher - you can check its current level at http://c4m.org.uk/, and sign the petition while you are about it if you haven't already done so.

The second consideration is that as the individual develops in his life of prayer, he will find that petition for material advantage is less and less a part of his asking, and that more and more he desires only that he may be conformed to God's Will, so that as Christ's Spirit is formed in him he is enabled to live as un autre Christ — that fine phrase which was so often used by French devotional writers in the seventeenth century.

The only story you need to write about is why there are so many football clubs being issued with winding - up petitions by HMRC.

These leading experts all share my serious concern about the dairy petition and so it was with some surprise that I read a new blog post by a respected fellow food blogger, Spoonfed, who seems to downplay the issue on the theory that front labels mean little and, at any rate, consumers should just focus on back - label ingredient disclosures:

Minutes ago, the Washington Post published online a follow - up story by Ferdman (a story which will appear in tomorrow's print paper) that unequivocally confirms McDonald's pulled the plug on the entire Cisna / 540 Meals in - school program — and that it did so last fall, right around the time of my initial Lunch Tray posts, our Change.org petition and Ferdman's original front page report.

So Masterson and several neighbors, armed with a petition signed by 69 local residents, Monday night will ask the Schaumburg Park District for the third time to outlaw cycling and post signs along the 17 - acre parcel known as the Oak Hollow Natural Area.

«There are over 400 organisations affected by the government's proposals, including the UK Film Council, instrumental in funding the multi-Oscar nominated film, «The King's Speech», and the Forestry Commission, where plans to sell - off land have been opposed by 460,000 people in an online petition so far,» she added.

Each of the 97 petitions that have crossed the signature threshold so far have been carefully reviewed by experts here at the White House and in agencies across the federal government, and the majority have already been answered, with more coming every week.

In the fall of 2013, Prof. Lawrence Lessig and I taught a seminar together at the Harvard Law School on the practical and theoretical problems that would be presented by a so - called «Article V convention,» which according to the text must be called by Congress upon the petition of two thirds of the fifty states (34).

Additionally, if political sites wants to create a remarketing list of visitors to their site, they may do so provided that they are not creating lists of visitors to pages within the site where a visit by a user indicates an affirmative political stance (for example, donation pages, mailing list sign - up pages; pages where they sign a political petition).

The four candidates so far «committed» will begin carrying petitions on July 11, due at the Board of Elections by the 24th.

Some leadership allies predicted more Republicans would now likely join the 20 GOP colleagues who have rebelled against leadership by signing the so - called discharge petition to force immigration votes.

The bill was amended on the day before it passed the legislature, so that parties not recognized by the FEC as national committees need a petition of 1 % of the number of registered voters.

(a) Whenever a Party nomination for a public office to be filled at a general or special election is not made at a primary election or by judicial nominating convention, or when no valid designating petition is filed with the board of elections (1) such nomination shall be made by the Executive Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision whose boundaries are coterminous with the County of New York or the Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by the Executive Committee or a subcommittee appointed by the Executive Committee for that purpose, and (2) such nomination shall be made by the appropriate District Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision wholly or partly contained within, but embracing only a part of, the County of New York or Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by a subcommittee appointed by said District Committee for that purpose.

Also, the appeals court rejected arguments by Broome County Republican Party Vice Chairman Paul Van Savage, who initially challenged the validity of Jones» petitions, that individuals who circulated the petitions were either ineligible to do so or did not correctly collect signatures.

So, I asked my NDC colleagues the question, why did the defence of the Chairperson get the NDC so incensed that their surrogates decided to throw out the baby with the bath water by petitioning against their two other appointeeSo, I asked my NDC colleagues the question, why did the defence of the Chairperson get the NDC so incensed that their surrogates decided to throw out the baby with the bath water by petitioning against their two other appointeeso incensed that their surrogates decided to throw out the baby with the bath water by petitioning against their two other appointees?

By doing so, residents interested in running for County Legislature are not able to carry petitions and receive the necessary signatures to appear on the ballot in November.

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».

Ramos has had trouble fundraising so far, and he is also fighting to stay on the ballot after a challenge was filed to his petitions (presumably by a Diaz Sr. supporter).

Conners says» So what I'm hoping this petition does is give us a roadmap to clear and reasonable heads having a new election for the project as proposed by the school district.»

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.»

The petition, on the White House website, was launched by Access2Research, a group of four open - access advocates who were frustrated by the lack of progress on the issue and so are trying a new tack.

During intervals between Council meetings, members of the Council may be polled by mail on matters of Council business, except as precluded by the Constitution and Bylaws, when so authorized by action of the Council, of the Committee on Council Affairs, or of the Board, or on petition signed by at least one hundred Members of the Association and submitted to the Executive Officer.

Despite the findings of these studies and others, the EPA did not update emission factors for the U.S. refinery and petrochemical sector until 2015, seven years after Houston had petitioned the agency to do so and two years after it was sued by environmental justice groups.

This is the demand of an online petition signed by about 90,000 people so far.

Globalaai, an Australian nonprofit that raises awareness about life - threatening allergies and advocates for the safety of people who have them, was so outraged by the scene, the group created a petition that now has more than 10,000 signatures.

Even so, it's impossible to be disappointed or dismayed by a film whose theatrical release feels like the result of a passionate fan petition.

A «Stop lowering the school age in Tasmania» petition organised by United Voice has so far been signed by 2,561 people.

CCSA strongly suggests that petitioning schools submit their renewal petitions by November 15, 2013 if you haven't already done so.

The case is seen as an important test of California's so - called «parent trigger» law, which allows parents to force reforms at low performing schools through a petition signed by 50 percent of parents.

How can two petitions, supported by the same organization, be so different?How can one so clearly delineate with data the need for the charter, while the other is stuck quoting randos from a meeting they had at the YMCA?

Audi fans have long been frustrated by the lack of an RS 4 on our shores, so much so there is even a Facebook page set up to petition the automaker to please stop being silly and...

In response to this, a group of indie writers, who have positively thrived under the new self - publishing promoted by Amazon, Kobo, B & N, Smashwords, CreateSpace, and so many others, anyway, several of these indie writers started what I call the Indie Petition on Change.org.

A Change.org petition started by Frances and Keith Smith has received over 150,000 signatures so far, with the... [Read more...]

This Puerto Rico law provides that, in all cases in which a person is accused of domestic violence or child abuse, the court shall, by petition of party, issue a protection order for the petitioner so that he / she be the sole custodian of the animal.

There's also a petition by a different creator at change.org for a Western release, which currently stands at around 1,600 votes so far.

Art & Black Los Angeles 1960 - 1980 and The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World have exploded into a tirade across Facebook — with complaints lodged by Kara Walker and Jerry Saltz among others — and now, an anonymous group has gone so far as to petition the Times to «acknowledge and address this editorial lapse and the broader issues raised by these texts.»

But so are the analogies, including the shockingly irresponsible conspiracy - theorizing petition - mongering by people with irrelevant doctorates (and the odd head of state) at great public health risk to the world in general and much of Africa in particular.

The petition, despite being frequently cited by global warming critics as showing that thousands of scientists disagree with the consensus on global warming, contains almost no people with relevant expertise; and its vetting was so lax that it included fictional signatories such as Star Wars characters and a member of the Spice Girls.

So citizens who pay electricity bills or are otherwise adversely affected by the EF and wish to encourage revocation can petition the USEPA to do so, preferably using evidence that EPA's three lines of evidence are invaliSo citizens who pay electricity bills or are otherwise adversely affected by the EF and wish to encourage revocation can petition the USEPA to do so, preferably using evidence that EPA's three lines of evidence are invaliso, preferably using evidence that EPA's three lines of evidence are invalid.

So I've just read both Cook et al 2016 and the «petition paper» by Robinson et al (both of which are linked to in your article but at which I arrived quite indepently).

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

There have been many efforts to collect «skeptical petitions» or even pose as a scientific journal (Oregon Petition) in order to mislead, and so statements have to be made by professional organizations to clarify these matters.

According to a principle established in England in 1832 and subsequently observed by the Canadian Parliament, a person can not petition Parliament directly but must do so through a Senator or Member of the House of Commons.