If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

Henry L. Bowden was listed on the petition as the mayor's attorney.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

A petition proposing a radical change in the German constitution and expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was widely circulated.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

The introduction, " Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth " remained unaltered and only a thanksgiving for those " departed this life in thy faith and fear " was inserted to introduce the petition that the congregation might be " given grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom ".

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

The petition gathered sufficient signatures, but was rejected on an alleged technicality.

This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which enjoins strict obedience upon all Catholics and forbids, under pain of excommunication, all unauthorized interpretation, reserving this to the Pope alone and threatens the disobedient with " the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul.

) In 2006, a petition was created asking The Open Group to release the source code for CDE and Motif under a free license.

The governor denied the petition as well as an application for reprieve, and Gillette was electrocuted in March of that year.

The preparation of the petition was assigned to a committee which included Allen.

He turned to drinking heavily and was forced to petition for bankruptcy.

A grass-roots online campaign was launched and a petition established by supporters of the Council.

The petition was originally presented to representatives of world governments at a ceremony in Rome on 30 November 2010.

However, Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

A previous law ( the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 ) had been passed forty years earlier to overturn a ruling that the command of the King was a sufficient answer to a petition of habeas corpus.

A habeas corpus petition could be made by the prisoner himself or by a third party on his behalf and, as a result of the Habeas Corpus Acts, could be made regardless of whether the court was in session, by presenting the petition to a judge.

A petition expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was very widely circulated.

State legislatures began to enact tough laws that made it harder for minor political parties to run candidates for office by requiring a high number of petition signatures from citizens and decreasing the length of time that such a petition could legally be circulated.

In 1908, upon completing the eleventh grade, Long circulated a petition protesting the addition of a 12th-grade graduation requirement, which resulted in his expulsion.

A petition to have Wiszowaty run again for the village board was circulated in 1995 by supporters, which likely would have led to another run for Mayor again in 1997, Wiszowaty chose not to seek election to his old seat on the Village Board.

Kildeer circulated a petition in opposition and obtained 200 signatures.

A petition for annexation to the city of Belleville was being circulated in the territory.

A petition was circulated and the name Bedford Center was changed to Temperance.

Columbia Heights turned down their request, so Johnson circulated a petition to have the residents vote on incorporation.

Thompson and William D. Edger ( editor of the original Crawford Clipper ) circulated a petition for Crawford to become a village, but upon getting getting only 69 of the 200 needed signatures, secured the remaining signatures from willing soldiers at Fort Robinson.

In 1878 he circulated a petition in 1878 to the community recommending that that the name be revised and on July 30, 1879, the Post Office name was changed from " Parkersville " to " Little Silver ".

In August, 1890, a petition was circulated to organize the county, choose a county seat, and elect county officers.

Onnie Mae O ' Brien became the first Postmistress on June 14, 1927 after a petition was circulated for the designation of Wickett for a U. S. Post Office.

Peter V. Sang, an organizer of the Seven Mile Creek Community, and then its postmaster and town clerk, circulated a petition to change the name of the town from Seven Mile Creek to Lamartine, in honor of the French revolutionary, whose works and political activity had been acknowledged by the United States Government on April 26, 1848 by formal diplomatic recognition.

The DC Bill of Rights Coalition and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition circulated a petition against random bag searches, taking the position that the practice violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and would not improve security.

Nevertheless, officials circulated a petition opposing the Chicken Ranch and then tried to close it down as a " public nuisance per se ".

They circulated an online petition that called on the library to label the identified books as explicit ; to move the books to the adult section of the library ; to install Internet content filters on the library's computers ; and to purchase books that represented " a balance of materials related to heterosexuality and homosexuality ".

They believe that “ The emergent ideology is a perversion of the Word of God and the doctrine of the Church of the Nazarene .” The group circulated a petition to members of the denomination, which was presented by 500 members to the Board of General Superintendents in January 2009, with the desire that “ Our fervent hope and prayer is that the General Superintendents will respond by purging our denomination of the emergent cancer before it is too late .” Prior to the most recent General Assembly held in July 2009, the Concerned Nazarenes advocated revising the Articles of Faith to affirm biblical inerrancy: “ Old and New Testaments are inerrant throughout and the supreme authority on everything the scriptures teach .” Further, they are concerned about the teaching of open theism and biological evolution in Nazarene universities ; invitations to emergent church leaders Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, and Doug Pagitt to speak at Nazarene institutions ; and the use of “ experiential works-based techniques for prayer ”, including prayer labyrinths, prayer stations and retreats to Roman Catholic monasteries.

According to the circulated petition:

Once the requisite number of signatures was obtained on the recall petition, other petitions were circulated by would-be candidates who wanted to appear on the ballot as possible replacements for Davis.

With an agent and an innocent bystander dead, and four more severely wounded, including two more innocent bystanders, and the complete escape of the Dillinger gang, the F. B. I came under severe criticism, with calls for J. Edgar Hoover's resignation and a widely circulated petition demanding Purvis ' suspension.

A petition circulated among American citizens and presented to their consul protested that the British had prevented Jews from defending themselves.

They held mass meetings, circulated a general petition, and spoke to congressmen in Washington.