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.

In January 2009, the Lindh family's petition for clemency was denied by President Bush in one of his final acts in office.

Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's " inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv ".

Two people tried to get on the ballot for congress in Missouri, but one succeeded in getting enough petition signatures.

An 1862 law allowed honorably discharged Army veterans of any war to petition for naturalization, without having filed a declaration of intent, after only one year of residence in the United States.

The continued adherence of Byrd and his family to Catholicism continued to cause him difficulties, though one surviving petition suggests that he was granted permission to practise his religion under licence during the reign of Elizabeth.

The European diplomatic corps went so far as to petition Bonaparte to remain in one place so they could keep up with him.

* The cloture petition is ignored for one full day during which the Senate is sitting.

* On the second calendar day during which the Senate sits after the presentation of the petition, after the Senate has been sitting for one hour, a " quorum call " is undertaken to ensure that a majority of the Senators are present.

Among the more than one hundred works of Cerverí de Girona are many songs with unique labels, which may correspond more to " titles " than " genres ", but that is debatable: peguesca ( nonsense ), espingadura ( flageolet song ), libel ( legal petition ), esdemessa ( leap ), somni ( dream ), acuyndamen ( challenge ), desirança ( nostalgia ), aniversari ( anniversary ), serena ( serene ).

Initiatives can be proposed by the governor, legislature, or by popular petition, giving California one of the most flexible legal systems in the world.

With some help from the missionaries, on October 17, 1743 Shabash put together a petition of names of people who could attest that the land in which one of the lots was running through was theirs.

In one new diocese, Southwell, a city was not created, because Southwell was a village without a borough corporation and therefore could not petition the Queen.

In one rescript replying to a petition made by the inhabitants of Tyre, transcrbed by Eusebius of Caesarea, Maximinus expounds an unusual pagan orthodoxy, explaining that it is through " the kindly care of the gods " that one could hope for good crops, health and the peaceful sea, and, that not being the case, one should blame " the destructive error of the empty vanity of those impious men weighed down the whole world with shame ".

Replying to Skinner's petition, the East India Company objected that the case was one of first instance, and that the Lords therefore should not have accepted it.

An 1878 petition for equal payment for religious schools became one of the catalysts for the foundation of the political movement.

On 16 October 1723, it was decided after a petition that the city should present three nominees of whom the king ( or the Council of the Realm ) appointed one.

The original petition requested that it be named Dromore after one of the town's oldest sections, but Massachusetts chose instead to honor one of its royal governors, Sir William Phips — actually a native of Woolwich.

On October 18, 1871, the village was incorporated as Brady, but one day later, a petition passed to rename it Vicksburg.

In the episode The End of Silliness ?, when a petition is made to bring back Silly Songs with Larry, Dr. Archibald reveals to Larry that it was signed by the entire population of Duluth, Minnesota and one citizen of Moose Lake, to which Larry responds, " Wow, Moose Lake!

In 2007, over one hundred village residents signed a petition to dissolve the village.

While he assumed and bore the title of Lord Aston of Forfar, and it was recorded by the County of Worcester, he presented a petition in 1819 to be officially declared Baron Aston of Forfar, for which no decision was made.

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

Those who sign the petition can spread the link of the EndingHunger website to their friends, via social media or mail, in order to gain awareness and signatures for the petition.

As with the petition, the more people who get involved, the more powerful the message to governments: “ We are no longer willing to accept the fact that hundreds of millions live in chronic hunger .” Groups and individuals can also decide on their own to organize an event about the project, simply by gathering friends, whistles, t-shirts and banners ( whistles and t-shirts can be ordered, and petition sign sheets downloaded, on the endinghunger. org website ) and thereby alert people about chronic hunger by using the yellow whistle.

Though states ( or increasingly, international organizations ) are usually the only ones with standing to address a violation of international law, some treaties, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have an optional protocol that allows individuals who have had their rights violated by member states to petition the international Human Rights Committee.

On 3 May, Parliament decreed The Protestation, attacking the ' wicked counsels ' of Charles's government, whereby those who signed the petition undertook to defend ' the true reformed religion ', parliament, and the king's person, honour and estate.

A petition may be created by anyone eligible to participate in politics ( those who have maintained accounts at the MOO for at least 30 days ), can be signed by other players, and may then be submitted for administrative ' vetting '.

The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia but whose commission was not subsequently delivered.

People who were asked to contribute with large sums of money began to petition.

Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims, informed Nicholas I that a messenger whom he had sent to Leo IV learned on his way of the death of this Pope, and therefore handed his petition to Benedict III, who decided it ( Hincmar, ep.

He was assisted by a number of independent printers and booksellers, who opposed the monopolistic aspects of the Act, and introduced a petition in February 1693 that the Act prevented them from conducting their business.

The disgruntled Crusader would then petition the king, who would refer the matter to his Lord Chancellor.

After the death of the absolutist king Matthias Corvinus in 1490, the Hungarian magnates, who did not want another heavy-handed king, procured the accession of Vladislaus II ( reigned 1490 – 1516 ), king of Bohemia, because of his notorious weakness: he was known as King Dobže, or Dobzse in Hungarian orthography ( meaning “ Good ” or, loosely, “ OK ”) from his habit of accepting without question every petition and document laid before him .< ref name =" britannica1 ">

In the early 1980s, Stephen Kay, who had worked for the prosecution in the trial, became alarmed that Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten had gathered 900 signatures on a petition for her parole.

Johnston, instead, had gone to the jail and issued an order releasing Macarthur, who then drafted a petition calling for Johnston to arrest Bligh and take charge of the colony.

* In 1977, he was among the intellectuals, with Foucault and Althusser, who signed the petition against age of consent laws.

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.

Slovik's case was taken up in 1981 by former Macomb County Commissioner Bernard V. Calka, a Polish-American World War II veteran, who continued to petition the Army to return Slovik ’ s remains.

Gipps, who had previously been in favour of separation, rejected the petition.

In 1963 an actor named Eugene Weingand, who was unrelated to Lorre, attempted to trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to " Peter Lorie ", but his petition was rejected by the courts.

In the 1940s Anouilh and several other intellectuals signed a petition for clemency to save the writer Robert Brasillach, who was condemned to death for being a Nazi collaborator.