" which organizes protests against, and publishes data about, the meal limit, the gathering of 13, 060 signatures by an online petition to repeal meal limit, protesters picketing the Mayor's State of the City Address and picketing developers who lobby City Hall to keep a meal limit on soup kitchens, and groups including the Democratic Party of Alachua County urging the lifting of the meal limit.

The governor of Ohio wrote to the new Republican President Abraham Lincoln urging him to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law.

Outside of Parliament Rockingham and his secretary and member of Parliament, Edmund Burke, organized London merchants who in turn started a committee of correspondence itself to support repeal of the Stamp Act by urging merchants throughout the country to contact their local representatives in Parliament concerning repeal.

President Wilson took office in 1913 and on 5 March 1914, Wilson sent a message to Congress strongly urging the repeal of the exemption.

On August 29, 1867, Ulrichs became the first homosexual to speak out publicly in defence of homosexuality when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws.

In 1867 he became the first self-proclaimed homosexual person to speak out publicly in defense of homosexuality when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws.

He supported the repeal of the Stamp Act, while urging the simultaneous passing of the Declaratory Act.

* The repeal of the Florida Railroad Commission, at the urging of railroad baron Henry Flagler ;

The UNHRC has subsequently affirmed this position on many occasions by urging countries to repeal laws that criminalize consensual same-sex activity and thereby bring their legislation into conformity with the Covenant.

As the EU Commission is currently considering changes to the controversial EU data retention directive, a coalition of more than 100 civil liberties, data protection and human rights associations, jurists, trade unions and others are urging the Commission to propose the repeal of the EU requirements regarding data retention in favour of a system of expedited preservation and targeted collection of traffic data.

Intending to work with his father on their ranch, Brubeck entered the College of the Pacific ( now the University of the Pacific ) studying veterinary science, but transferred on the urging of the head of zoology, Dr. Arnold, who told him " Brubeck, your mind's not here.

Dayton had already told Seward of his own meeting with Thouvenel, in which the French foreign minister had told him that Wilkes ’ actions were “ a clear breach of international law ” but that France would “ remain a spectator in any war between the United States and England .” A direct message was received on Christmas from Thouvenel ( it was actually delivered during the cabinet meeting ) urging that the United States release the prisoners and in so doing affirm the rights of neutrals on the seas that France and the United States had repeatedly argued against Great Britain.

" In March 1919, when some in Congress and the press were urging him to reinstate the Justice Department's wartime relationship with the APL, he told reporters that " its operation in any community constitutes a grave menace.

Legco member Cheung Man Kwong told RTHK Radio 1's Openline Openview phone-in program that he along with eight other Democratic camp members had already written to Legco's Education Committee chairman Tsang Yok-sing, urging him to convene an emergency meeting to investigate these allegations of government interference in the running of IEd.

" In March 1919, when some in Congress and the press were urging him to reinstate the Justice Department's wartime relationship with the APL, he told reporters that " its operation in any community constitutes a grave menace.

However, he later calls her back urging her to tell the other housewives to spare her Mary Alice's fate, and reveals to her the only other person who he told about the note to was the cop who was looking into Martha Huber's death, Chuck.

She told Fresh Airs Terry Gross the role was originally intended for a man but, at the urging of Steve Carell's wife Nancy Walls, was offered to Lynch instead.

It was at the urging of her mother-in-law ( who now lives in Australia ), she told the Fiji Times on 18 September 2005, that she decided to study for a postgraduate degree.

In one day alone, 1 September, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets received demands from 126 local soviets urging it to take power into its own hands.

Among the canons published was one urging people to more regularly attend the parochial churches, and to go to their parish church for at least feast days and on Sundays.

Her prized possession was a bound volume of the Dissenters ' Theological Magazine and Review, in which the family's pastor, the Reverend James Wheaton, had published two essays, one insisting that God had created the world in six days, the other urging dissenters to study the new science of geology.

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps as many as one million, telegrams urging support for Willkie poured in, many from " Willkie Clubs " that had sprung up across the country.

Lakoff says that most people have a blend of both metaphors applied at different times, and that political speech works primarily by invoking these metaphors and urging the subscription of one over the other.

Fan reaction to leaked news that Spock would be killed was overwhelmingly negative, and one fan paid for trade-paper advertisements urging Paramount to abandon the plan.

Though Paris was indeed born before nightfall, he was spared by Priam ; Hecuba, too, was unable to kill the child, despite the urging of the priestess of Apollo, one Herophile.

When the Semper-designed Hoftheater burnt down in 1869, King John, on the urging of the citizenry, commissioned Semper to build a new one.

He made only one speech, urging the release from Landsberg of Lt-Colonel Kriebel.

While one seeks to deter him from the path of virtue by urging the difficulty of it ; the other calls attention to the unnatural character of enjoyment which anticipates the need of it, its want of the highest joy, that arising from noble deeds, and the consequences of a life of voluptuousness, and how she herself, honoured by gods and men, leads to all noble works, and to true well-being in all circumstances of life.

In 1994 at the urging of writer Dick Waterman, Raitt funded the replacement of a headstone for one of her mentors, blues guitarist Fred McDowell through the Mt.

At their urging, during the winter of 1883-84, the buildings of the town were loaded on skids and pulled by teams of draft animals to the town's present-day location on the bluff one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of the river.

Town residents are encouraged to attend, and in one of the two monthly meetings a period of time is set aside for " Public Appearances " in which issues are aired and discussed by Town residents urging some action by the Council.

The name of the town was changed to " Mountain City " in 1885, presumably at the urging of Roderick R. Butler ( 1827 – 1902 ), a prominent citizen and U. S. Congressman, who wanted the town's name to reflect its situation amidst one of the highest valleys in Tennessee.

According to Marcos ' book, " Notes on the New Society ," it was a movement urging the poor and the privileged to work as one for the common goals of society and to achieve the liberation of the Filipino people through self-realization.

Sabine was one of the instigators of this " Magnetic Crusade ," urging the government to establish magnetic observatories throughout the empire.

He then hears the voice of his old mentor urging him to get up and get back in the fight, to go just " one more round ".

In 1958, at a live gig of the D. C .- based Milt Grant's House Party, attempting — at the urging of the local crowd — to work up a cover sound-alike for The Diamonds ' hit, " The Stroll ", they came up with an eleven and one half bar blues titled " Rumble " which they first called " Oddball ".

Still, despite their perils and chances of error, such forests, being the location where the knight can obtain the end of his quest, are places where the knights may become worthy ; one romance has a maiden urging Sir Lancelot on his quest for the Holy Grail, " which quickens with life and greenness like the forest.

He was one of the chief movers of the Protestation of 3 May 1641, which he carried up to the Lords, urging them to give it their approval.

1917 ), reasoning that " f one stops short of urging upon others that it is their duty or their interest to resist the law, it seems to me one should not be held to have attempted to cause its violation.

Prussia was now confronted on the one side by the German unification movement urging her clamorously to action, on the other side by the European powers with one voice threatening the worst consequences should she persist.

As the crowd tried to overturn the police wagon, two police cars and the wagon — with a few slashed tires — left immediately, with Inspector Pine urging them to return as soon as possible.

Short speaking at a rally in Birmingham in January 2009, urging the crowd " not forget the crimes being committed against the people of Gaza " following the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict

Local ministers and newspapers were quick to blame the crowd for urging him to jump, and put the guilt of his death on them.

Suspected of collusion with the enemy for even suggesting such a thing, " those in the council and those outside, were so enraged when they heard it that they surrounded Lycidas and stoned him to death ... with all the uproar in Salamis over Lycidas, the Athenian women soon found out what had happened ; whereupon, without a word from the men, they got together, and, each one urging on her neighbor and taking her along with the crowd, flocked to Lycidas ' house and stoned his wife and children.

King led a mass march in Atlanta and spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Georgia state capitol, urging them to " defend the collective bargaining rights of teachers, bus drivers, police, firefighters and other public service workers, who educate, protect and serve our children and families.