What is "petitioners"

Usage examples of "petitioners".

We see in them the state of mind and degree of education of the petitioners: sometimes a half-educated writer attempting to reason in the vein of the Contrat Social.

Every citizen, every person, is conditionally presumed to be competent-and that means everyone-you, me, Jake, Miss Smith, Petitioners, and the illiterate who fills that bar and cleans out the empties.

Do Petitioners stipulate that the brain of their grandfather was transplanted into another body?

While you did represent the Petitioners, not only have they fired you, but this was never an adversary situation.

This damning fact having been stipulated, Petitioners are now forced to demand that the Judge presiding disqualify himself and declare this a mistrial.

If this young woman is not Johann 'Sebastian Bach Smith-as Petitioners allege-then she is not of my college fraternity.

As a precaution, and to impose on the ill-disposed, the petitioners provide themselves with arms and line the approaches.

Finally, other armed petitioners have already filed along before the National Assembly, and, as one is as good as another, "the law being equal for all," others must be admitted as well.

In relation to the threatening tone of those at work on the camp, the petitioners add: "Such was the language of the workshops in 1789 and 1790.

To compensate themselves, and in the places of the absent, the petitioners, constituting themselves representatives of France, vote with the "Mountain," while the Jacobin president, far from turning them out, himself invites them "to set aside all obstacles prejudicial to the welfare of the people.

As on the 27th of May, the petitioners invade the hall, and "mix in fraternally with the members of the 'Left.

The barrier, separating the petitioners in the hundred-foot-long room from the officials' passageway, was symbolic rather than teal.

A steady stream of servants laden with trays of meat and flagons of wine hurried in and out of the hall, passing through the throng of hangers-on and hopeful entertainers and petitioners who crowded around the doors.

The petitioners crouching along the edge of that empty space did not notice him because they were so intent on the king.

The man glanced up, startled, and scuttled to one side, causing a cascade as all the petitioners scrambled for new places.