If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

Henry L. Bowden was listed on the petition as the mayor's attorney.

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

A petition proposing a radical change in the German constitution and expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was widely circulated.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

The introduction, " Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth " remained unaltered and only a thanksgiving for those " departed this life in thy faith and fear " was inserted to introduce the petition that the congregation might be " given grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom ".

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.

The petition gathered sufficient signatures, but was rejected on an alleged technicality.

This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which enjoins strict obedience upon all Catholics and forbids, under pain of excommunication, all unauthorized interpretation, reserving this to the Pope alone and threatens the disobedient with " the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul.

) In 2006, a petition was created asking The Open Group to release the source code for CDE and Motif under a free license.

The governor denied the petition as well as an application for reprieve, and Gillette was electrocuted in March of that year.

The preparation of the petition was assigned to a committee which included Allen.

He turned to drinking heavily and was forced to petition for bankruptcy.

A grass-roots online campaign was launched and a petition established by supporters of the Council.

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

However, Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight.

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.

A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

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.

A habeas corpus petition could be made by the prisoner himself or by a third party on his behalf and, as a result of the Habeas Corpus Acts, could be made regardless of whether the court was in session, by presenting the petition to a judge.

Twenty thousand world citizens at Stuttgart had signed a petition inviting me to visit their town.

They further signed a petition to the Politburo, demanding that Pasternak be stripped of his Soviet citizenship and exiled to, " his Capitalist paradise.

In 1803, the inhabitants signed a petition addressed to the Jamaican governor asking him to grant them a tax exemption from the " Transient Tax on Wreck Goods ".

Approximately 8, 000 individuals and mental health professionals have signed a petition in support of the letter.

In August 1796, David and many other artists signed a petition orchestrated by

Pauline Léon, on 6 March 1792, submitted a petition signed by 319 women to the National Assembly requesting permission to form a garde national in order to defend Paris in case of military invasion.

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 ".

Fonda later explained that she had regretted signing the petition, saying that she had signed the letter ... < p >... without reading it carefully enough, without asking myself if some of the wording wouldn't exacerbate the situation rather than bring about constructive dialogue ...

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 '.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

A petition expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was very widely circulated.

In 1641 Lovelace led a group of men to seize and destroy a petition for the abolition of Episcopal rule, which had been signed by fifteen thousand people.

Almost 13, 000 people signed a petition calling on Crow not to perform.

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 petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition stating that they do not believe higher government spending will help the United States economy recover from the late-2000s recession.

* July 8: Second petition to the king ( the Olive Branch Petition ) signed

In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge Governor Steve Beshear to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the state's Humane Shelter Law.

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

In May 1930, a petition was signed by 1, 028 economists in the U. S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas, Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taussig, and Clair Wilcox.

In 1886, twenty of the Hopi leaders signed a petition sent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting that a school be built on their land.

A petition drive was signed by 600, 000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, and a USA Today poll which Cleveland won by 100, 000 votes.