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are petitioning

  • present progressive
    of petition.
    petition
    noun
    a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit.

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The tribe and conservation groups are petitioning the Idaho Board of Environmental Quality to reconsider the permit.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Campaigners are petitioning the government to introduce a tax on artificial lawns "in order to act as a deterrent and encourage land owners towards less damaging and more sustainable options".

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022

We have former colonies in the Caribbean who are petitioning to end their relationship with the crown.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

In an Indigenous community that has always championed Native Americans’ sovereign rights and independence from federal oversight, the outcast Nooksack members are so outraged that they are petitioning the federal government to intervene.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2022

They are not driven from our fort; and they even delivered two infants to us for baptism, and others are petitioning it.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson