In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

The law which governs home rule charter petitions states that they must be referred to the chairman of the board of canvassers for verification of the signatures within 10 days and Mr. Martinelli happens to hold that post.

His widow started the circulation of petitions after Barnard was reprimanded for violating the probation.

In 2005, as a pilot of the potential of internet petitions, a version of e-Petitioner was produced for the Bundestag.

Historically, the remedy for such violations have been petitions for common law writs, such as quo warranto.

* Some deists believe that God is not an entity that can be contacted by human beings through petitions for relief ; rather, God can only be experienced through the nature of the universe.

The gentiles retained control of the city in the three centuries since that date, despite Jewish petitions for joint governorship.

* 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U. S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

On 22 May 2007, hearings were held in the UK Parliament concerning citizen-initiated petitions for special regulation of franchising by the government of the UK due to losses incurred by citizens who had invested in franchises.

The due process for such petitions is not simply civil or criminal, because they incorporate the presumption of non-authority.

In 1836 Southern Congressmen voted in a rule, called the “ gag rule ,” that called for the immediate tabling of any petitions about slavery.

Reflecting its philosophical position, Reform Judaism, unlike Conservative Judaism, has altered the traditional prayers to refer to " redemption " rather than a " redeemer " and removed petitions for restoration of the House of David.

The culture of Utah, petitions by Utahns, and campaigning by students of Brigham Young University were also mentioned as reasons for recognizing Jell-O.

He returned to Rajkot to make a modest living drafting petitions for litigants but was forced to close it when he ran afoul of a British officer.

Marbury's argument is that in the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress granted the Supreme Court original jurisdiction over petitions for writs of mandamus.

Japanese opposition to the Pacific nuclear weapons tests was widespread, and " an estimated 35 million signatures were collected on petitions calling for bans on nuclear weapons ".

Pretty soon, sessions in Parliament would turn into bargaining tables, the king granting petitions in exchange for money.

There are also cases that do not technically involve two sides, such as petitions for specific statutory relief that require judicial approval ; in those cases there are no respondents, just a petitioner.

James Chalmers organized petitions " for a low and uniform rate of postage ".

It was possible to obtain a legislative divorce in Canada by application to the Canadian Senate, which reviewed and investigated petitions for divorce, which would then be voted upon by the Senate and subsequently made into law.

In 1898 school teachers started to sign mass petitions for further reform.

At the age of thirteen, Novinha, a cold and distant girl, successfully petitions to be made the official biologist of the colony ( roughly the equivalent of a master's degree ); from then on, she contributes to the work of father-and-son xenologers ( alien anthropology ) Pipo and Libo, and for a short time there is family and camaraderie.

Online petitions were signed demanding its removal from the titles.

Reportedly, petitions for removal of the bonsaikitten. com web address are more widespread in countries where English is spoken as a second language, and therefore, people may only see the content of the website's photos, which, in its most up-to-date format, consists of several photographs of a kitten inside of a jar.

The removal of secrecy also encourages discharge petitions that exist merely to take a public stand on an issue.

This resulted in several unsuccessful petitions, calling for their removal, being presented to the council.

Egeberg's letter has been cited in several petitions for removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

By the summer of 1861, many of the citizens of the territory were in uproar, a petitions were circulated calling for Gilpin's removal from office.

The morning prayer service is preceded by litanies and petitions of forgiveness called selichot ; on Yom Kippur, many selichot are woven into the liturgy of the mahzor ( prayer book ).

After an ektenia ( litany ), during which petitions are offered that God will have mercy on those who err and bring them back to the truth, and that he will " make hatred, enmity, strife, vengeance, falsehood and all other abominations to cease, and cause true love to reign in our hearts …", the bishop ( or abbot ) says a prayer during which he beseeches God to: " look down now upon Thy Church, and behold how that, though we have joyously received the Gospel of salvation, we are but stony ground.

He appears daily on his morning telecast preaching selected verses from the Bible and receiving prayer petitions from viewers.

Muslim worshippers, after prayers on the esplanade of the Haram, passed through the narrow lane by the Wailing Wall and ripped up prayer books, and kotel notes ( wall petitions ), without harming however three Jews present.

At that time the congregants did not kneel during the prayer for the conversion of the Jews ( even though moments of kneeling in silent prayer were prescribed for all of the other petitions in the Good Friday rite ), because, it was said, the Church did not wish to imitate the Jews who mocked Christ before his crucifixion by kneeling before him and reviling him.

As part of his major revision of the Holy Week liturgy in 1955, Pope Pius XII instituted kneeling for this petition as at the other petitions of the litany, so that the prayer read:

A litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Jewish worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions.

The prelate should kiss the cross before putting it on his neck, and while putting it on say the prayer Munire me digneris ( the origin of which dates back to the Middle Ages ), in which he petitions God for protection against his enemies, and begs to bear in mind continually the Passion of Jesus, and the triumphs of the confessors of the Faith.

Green argues that the hallowing of God's name is deliberately the first among the three petitions in the prayer, in order to reassert the primacy of God over all other things.

In the daily Amidah prayer, the central prayer in Jewish services, the petitions to accept the " fire offerings of Israel " and " the grain-offering of Judah and Jerusalem " ( Malachi 3: 4 ) are removed.

On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic ; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.

The petitions at the end of the hymn ( beginning Salvum fac populum tuum ) are a selection of verses from the book of Psalms, appended subsequently to the original hymn.

The word has also come into use for pre-created form letters on the Internet for things such as issues to be broached by a politician based on an issue ad, requesting a cable network be added to a system by a cable or satellite operator, or a pre-written complaint about something such as a program, book, or video game opposed by a group which created the letter, along with online petitions.

Lawmaking begins in the House or Senate Clerk's office where petitions, bills, and resolves are filed and recorded in a docket book.