petitions

I think paying people to get signatures on petitions is a bad practice.

SIGNER SUPPORTER WAS FIRED FROM WAGNER CAMPAIGN FOR PETITION FRAUD 2009

The officers removed the petitions from a table at the conference, and two male officers "mocked the volunteers by appearing to kiss each other," according to the complaint.

June 2006 2006

After thresholds are reached in petitions, citizens could initiate a referendum question, and results, fairly arrived at, would be binding on the government.

Governing in the 21st Century: the Mike Harris Government and Lessons from Ontario 2000

This the Emperor refused to receive, observing -- 'I take no petitions from the English.'

The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

Take, for example, the literal translation of one of these post-mortem petitions from the funerary tablet of one Pepi-Na, who lived in the early part of the Sixth Dynasty, some three thousand five hundred years before our era.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

The "but" connecting the two petitions is an insufficient reason for regarding them as one, though enough to show that the one thought naturally follows close upon the other.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Numerous petitions from the Federal prisoners at Richmond have been received by the President praying for a recognition of the Confederate Government as belligerents so far as to allow of an exchange of prisoners.

The Civil War in America 1861

God, enforcing both petitions from a plea taken from the glory of God, which he promises with thankfulness to show forth.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Deos qui rogat ille facit -- That to which a man addresses petitions is to him a god.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

There are "petitions" - such as the one linked to in the story above - and there are

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® 2009