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An immense crowd gathered in the Champ de Mars to sign the petition.
In the first week of the movement's existence, Nevada-Semipalatinsk gathered more than 2 million signatures from Kazakhstanis of all ethnic groups on a petition to Mikhail Gorbachev demanding the end of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.
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.
John Ross gathered over 15, 000 signatures for a petition to the U. S. Senate, insisting that the treaty was invalid because it did not have the support of the majority of the Cherokee people.
In 2012, citizens gathered 500 signatures on a petition requesting the Council reconsider the issue of direct election of Mayor.
In May, 2010, Colbert declined to invite comedian Stephen Colbert to the parade despite a petition drive that gathered 499 signatures, because the parade was not deemed an appropriate venue for his visit being a solemn day.
" Antagonist of Federalist everywhere he gathered petition signatures against the Alien and Sedition Acts, which led to his arrest by Judge Cooper and transport in open wagon in the fall of 1799, to New York City for trial.
They started a petition and gathered the necessary signatures.
The new parish was started four years earlier when a group of seventy Galician and Subcarpathian Ruthenian families gathered together and agreed to petition the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolitan of Galicia.
In 1864, the organization gathered 400, 000 signatures to petition the United States Congress, significantly assisting in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.
On July 17, a large crowd that had gathered at the Champs de Mars in support of the petition was fired upon by military forces under the command of the Marquis de Lafayette, an incident which became known as the Champs de Mars Massacre.
In 1948, within a period of only two months, fifteen thousand Witnesses from across Canada gathered a petition of 625, 510 names.
A community action group, NOGOE ( No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events ), believed Greenwich Park was not a suitable venue for the events and started an ( ultimately unsuccessful ) petition to get the equestrian events relocated ; by February 2009 this had gathered over 12, 000 signatures.
The petition, passed around by word of mouth, gathered half a million signatures but did not dissuade Congress from impeaching the President.
After 30 years, many of those from both Czechoslovakia and the UK who were personally involved in the Charter 77 movement and helped to gain international support and to draw attention to the petition gathered on 29 March 2007 at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, to look back and share their experience and memories of one of the little known but most significant events of modern European history.
The filing was prepared by DFL election attorney Alan Weinblatt, and argued that all candidates are subject to a time limit for petitions, and that most of the petition signatures were gathered before the July 4 – 18, 2006 period which the lawsuit claimed was applicable.
Displayed in local shop Probe Records the petition gathered numerous signatures, including those of the band themselves.
A petition on the website has gathered more than 400, 000 signatures as of November 2009.
On 17 July an immense crowd gathered at the altar of the country in the Champ de Mars to sign the petition.
The changing of the labour law was greatly opposed by five trade unions: a petition demanding a referendum gathered 813, 016 signatures, far more than the required 449, 506 signatures ( 10 percent of all voters in Croatia ), in the first successful popular referendum attempt.
The Canadian-Muslim Civil Liberties Association similarly gathered a petition of 800 signatures and presented it to both Canadian and Pakistani officiails, and Human Concern International executive director Kaleem Akhtar echoed his certainty that Khadr was not involved in the blast, stating that " politics was not his cup of tea ", and subsequently started a legal defence fund for Khadr.
An online petition protesting the format change gathered tens of thousands of signatures in only a few days.
The rallies were attended by 20, 000 Canadians, and gathered 233, 000 petition signatures.
NO2ID launched its public campaign with an online petition that gathered over 3, 000 signatures in a little over four weeks, submitted just as the Labour Government introduced the first Identity Cards Bill in November 2004.

petition and sufficient
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.
In 1139 Osbert went to Rome to petition for Edward's canonisation with the support of King Stephen, but he lacked the full support of the English hierarchy and Stephen had quarrelled with the church, so Pope Innocent II postponed a decision, declaring that Osbert lacked sufficient testimonials of Edward's holiness.
Recalls, which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition, have a history dating back to the ancient Athenian democracy and are a feature of several contemporary constitutions.
* 2009 a petition failed to garner sufficient signatures to oblige an election for recall of Eddie Price III, mayor of Mandeville, Louisiana.
<......> The fact that no status determination had taken place according to the Third Geneva Convention was sufficient reason for a judge from the District Court of Columbia dealing with a habeas petition, to stay proceedings before a military commission.
Granting a writ of certiorari means merely that at least four of the justices have determined that the circumstances described in the petition are sufficient to warrant review by the Court.
A petition is deemed valid where it is signed by a sufficient proportion of the electorate ( ranging from 50 % in an area with fewer than 500 electors to 10 % in one with more than 2, 500 ).
A petition from Madame Dreyfus was put aside by the judicial committee for want of sufficient proof.
The Arab leaders submitted a petition to the League of Nations in which they expressed their demands for independence and democracy, noting that the Arab community contained sufficient educated and talented members to establish a stable representative democracy.
If a sufficient number of electors in an area of a proposed new parish ( ranging from 50 % in an area with less than 500 electors to 10 % in one with more than 2, 500 ) sign a petition demanding its creation, then the local district council or unitary authority must consider the proposal.
About nine years later, Sir Thomas Lovell, who married Isabel, Edmund's sister, presented a petition to parliament, stating that Edmund was " not of sufficient discretion to guide himself and his livelihood ; nor able to serve his sovereign after his duty " and asking " that he might have the guidance and governance of the said Edmund " and all his property.
The PPMD submitted a petition of nearly 15, 000 signatures on August 2, a number more than sufficient to achieve official party status and a ballot line, but this was rejected under a local ballot access law as a number of the signees had moved between counties since their voter registration.
In 1991 the Pentecostal Church had thirty-six clergy in forty-three parishes, with sufficient concentration in Ruse to petition the government to establish a Bible institute there.
The court also stated that in the event that there was a problem with the Forum, the petition was sufficient and should have been followed, and assigned all costs to the individual impeached directors.
A candidate whose language is not covered may petition for an examination, provided that the language in question has a sufficient amount of written literature and the request is made well in advance of the examination.
The court ruled in favor of the EPA and denied the Bradley petition stating, " Thus, the record provides a sufficient foundation for the EPA's conclusion that an observed release of mercury occurred.

petition and signatures
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.
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.
It builds on the success in 2010 of The 1billonhungry project and the subsequent chain of public events that led to the collection of over three million signatures on a global petition to end hunger ( www. EndingHunger. org ).
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.
The pro-government camp claims to have collected 700, 000 signatures on a petition backing Mr. Tsang's reform package.
A petition on Change. org has received more than 70, 000 signatures urging IKEA to respect workers ' rights.
Once vetted, the petition has a limited time to collect enough signatures to become valid and be made into a ballot.
Over 22, 000 electronic signatures, some of them anonymous, were collected on a web petition to ask the Bishops, Cardinals and the Pope to reconsider the new translation.
However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.
Two people tried to get on the ballot for congress in Missouri, but one succeeded in getting enough petition signatures.
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 an effort to promote its $ 2 Meal Deals, Taco Bell started a Facebook group in June 2010 to collect signatures on a petition that appeals to the Federal Reserve to produce more two-dollar bills.
His father launched a campaign to have him released and was able to get 188 signatures on a petition.
Other parties, such as the Libertarian Party of New York, and the Green Party of New York, and others, now seek ballot access by, first, getting a gubernatorial candidate on the ballot via petition ( by collecting 15, 000 valid signatures of registered voters ), and then by getting 50, 000 votes for that candidate on their line.
He was arrested again, in 1934, first for collecting signatures on a petition protesting the trial of railway workers and twice more for other similar activities.
To initiate a citizens-initiated referendum on a particular issue, proponents of the referendum apply to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and once the question wording is determined, proponets have twelve months to compile a petition containing signatures from at least ten percent of all registered voters.
This petition was signed by the officers of the Corps and other prominent citizens but, according to Evatt, most signatures had probably been added only after Bligh was safely under house arrest.
To gain this recognition, tribes must gather a number of signatures and a body of supporting evidence with which to successfully petition the CIP.
Over 1, 900 signatures were collected on a fan vid-blog / petition.

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