Finally, in 1593, when her sons, Tibbot Burke and Murrough O ' Flaherty, and her half-brother, Donal-na-Piopa, were taken captive by the English governor of Connacht, Sir Richard Bingham, Ní Mháille sailed to England to petition Elizabeth I for their release.

It began as a petition movement which tried to mobilize " moral force ", but soon attracted men who advocated strikes, General strikes and physical violence, such as Feargus O ' Connor and known as " physical force " chartists.

Though O ' Connor mishandled the defence of the petition in the House of Commons, Chartism survived the episode.

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.

The Public Library of Science began in early 2001 as an online petition initiative by Patrick O.

Supporting Bradlaugh were William Ewart Gladstone, T. P. O ' Connor and George Bernard Shaw as well as hundreds of thousands of people who signed a public petition.

* Sundays, Feast Days and Lenten Days, the petition: O God, save your people and bless your inheritance ..."

The petition: " O God, save your people and bless your inheritance ..." is read by the priest.

Let the surplus of the sum belong to thy sanctuary, in order that by virtue of thy fortune, O saint, thou mayest come to the aid of me and Sira in all matters, and especially with respect to this petition ; and that what has been already procured for us by thy intercession, may be consummated according to the compassion of thy goodness, and the desire of me and Sira ; so that both of us, and all persons in the world, may trust in thy power and continue to believe in thee.

Abraham O. Smoot said that " he never knew an instance in which David's petition for the sick was not answered.

* October 19-Unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O ' Kelly.

In May, 2006, a group of local grade 2 students, led by student Connor O ' Driscoll, helped collect more than 500 signatures on a petition to rename of the museum to reflect Demasduit's real identity, rather than the name she was given after her capture.

In 1995, National Pax had planned to replace the " Sir Isaac Lime " flavor with " Scarlett O ' Cherry ," until a group of Orange County, California fourth-graders created a petition in opposition and picketed the company's headquarters in early 1996.

On October 29, 2008, O ' Hara's petition for re-admission to the bar was submitted by the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department to the Committee on Character And Fitness.

O ' Reilly, while not directly mentioning Olbermann, launched an online petition asking MSNBC to fire him, and allegedly threatened a caller to his radio show for merely mentioning Olbermann by name.

“ The petition of the inhabitants of Smaldeel district Winburg, O. R. C.

Feargus O ' Connor, one of the most radical of the Irish party, brought forward a petition demanding the repeal of the Acts of Union 1800.

" Peyser added that Rosie O ' Donnell appears in " Trapper Keeper " and gathers lawyers, media and her friends to " help settle the race the way she sees fit ," while in Florida, O ' Donnell, Harvey Weinstein, Gloria Steinem, Bianca Jagger " and all the usual members of the Hollywood nitwit brain trust have signed a petition demanding a revote in Palm Beach County, ensuring the race would go to Gore.

* Sundays, Feast Days and Lenten Days, the petition: O God, save your people and bless your inheritance ..."

The petition: " O God, save your people and bless your inheritance ..." is read by the priest.

When the Congress of the United States turned down their petition for statehood and created the Utah Territory instead, Fillmore was designated as its territorial capital. A model of the Utah Territorial Statehouse as originally conceived by architect Truman O. Angell.

At the death of O ' Donnell, be became the chief of the Union Liberal, and as president of the senate he assisted Ríos Rosas to draw up a petition to Queen Isabella against her Moderado ministers, for which both were exiled.

A hearing to determine if the case qualifies as a class action lawsuit was held on January 31, 2007, and on August 15, 2007, Federal Judge William O ' Kelley ruled against the plaintiffs by denying the petition for class action without prejudice.

Following the election, Connor lodged an election petition challenging the result based on a dispute about differences in the number of ballot papers recorded at polling stations and those subsequently recorded at the count centre.

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

According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.

The first such petition was presented in the House of Commons on 4 December 1837 ( from Montrose ).

In a petition presented to Parliament in 1439, the name is used to describe an itinerant felon.

The following year he presented the House of Commons with Dering ’ s pro-Royalist petition which was supposed to have been burned.

He was freed in October, after a petition requesting his release, signed by over 2, 000 leading London citizens, was presented to the House of Commons.

The Levellers ' largest petition, entitled " To The Right Honourable The Commons Of England ", was presented to Parliament on September 11, 1648 after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners.

A petition demanding the franchise is presented to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean.

In 1793, Grey presented to the House of Commons a petition from the Friends of the People, outlining abuses of the system and demanding change.

Cloud, after Napoleon had kept them waiting while he received the Turkish ambassador, the hapless commissioners presented their " petition " to Louis to accept the crown of " Holland ", which he graciously did, while Napoleon looked on avuncularly.

These were generally presented by John Quincy Adams, who as a member of Congress identified himself particularly with the struggle against any Congressional abridgment of the right of petition.

If an anti-slavery petition was presented, the Senate would vote not on whether to accept the petition but on whether to consider the question of receiving the petition.

In 1709 he presented a petition to King John V of Portugal, seeking royal favour for his invention of an airship, in which he expressed the greatest confidence.

Finally the members of the Bordeaux group, joined with others from Nantes reached an agreement with Langlois, and on 8 November 1839, ‘ La Compagnie de Bordeaux et de nantes pour la Colonisation de l ’ Île du Sud de la Nouvelle Zélande et ses Dépendances ’ presented its petition to the Government.

* The petition may be presented by interrupting another Senator's speech.

The first petition for the separation of the Port Phillip District ( or ' Australia Felix ') from New South Wales was drafted in 1840 by Henry Fyshe Gisborne and presented by him to Governor Gipps.

Gordon, petition in hand, and wearing in his hat the blue cockade of the Protestant Association, entered the Commons and presented the petition.

On January 21, 1840, a petition to create Lake County from seven townships in northern Geauga County and Willoughby Township from Cuyahoga County were presented to the Ohio House of Representatives.

In 1835 settlers presented a petition to the Legislature requesting a new county.

Meetings were held around the country and in June, 1839 a large petition was presented to the House of Commons.