What's the difference between appellant and petitioner?

Appellant


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to an appeal; appellate.
  • (n.) One who accuses another of felony or treason.
  • (n.) One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.
  • (n.) A challenger.
  • (n.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.
  • (n.) One who appeals or entreats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
  • (2) A GABAergic projection that originates in the pretectal nuclei is directed towards the superficial layers of the SC in the cat (Appell and Behan, 1990) and rat (Van der Want et al., 1991).
  • (3) In a case involving a 4-year-old esotrope with retinoblastoma, a federal appellate court has held that, as a matter of law, the standard of care expected of an optometrist requires a dilated fundus examination conducted with the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope at the initial visit and periodically thereafter.
  • (4) "The rabbis are wonderful spiritual leaders and they should be doing what they do best, spiritual guidance," says Mark Meyer Appel, whose group Voice of Justice gives emotional support to victims and their families.
  • (5) One of the court’s liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had previously indicated the court would consider a case on the issue if the appellate circuits were to disagree with each other on it.
  • (6) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
  • (7) Several already published samples form a part of the present study, but their appellation do not correspond to the previous one; stricklingly, only few B3 (new appellation) have been described in the literature, which let one think that they might be undetected using classical grouping tests, and thus considered as normal B.
  • (8) The appellant’s actions towards these victims had long-term consequences for their lives.
  • (9) These findings, also present in human congenital myotonia [Butterfield, Chesnut, Roses & Appel, 1976, Nature (London) 263:159; Butterfield, 1977 (Submitted for publication)], strengthen the concepts that increased membrane fluidity is associated with the presence of myotonia and that congenital myotonia may be a diffuse membrane disease.
  • (10) As one contributor on the blog Quark Soup by David Appell put it : "Well, at least they considered it as an option."
  • (11) 6, 525-529), while in eukaryotes it is added post-transcriptionally by a special tRNA guanylyl transferase (Cooley, L., Appel, B., and Söll, D. (1982) Proc.
  • (12) Appellate courts in three states have now ruled that there is no legal difference between artificial feeding and any other medical treatment and that therefore feeding may be refused by a competent patient or, in appropriate circumstances, by the family or guardian of an incompetent patient.
  • (13) The source quoted the judge in the case, who said: "The evidence concerning the joint acquisition of Maya [the cat] by the appellant and his partner reinforces my conclusion on the strength and quality of the family life that appellant and his partner enjoy."
  • (14) This decision made the sixth circuit the first federal appellate court to rule against marriage equality since the landmark June 2013 decision that struck down parts of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma).
  • (15) In its consultation document Ofcom said a successful appellant may get compensation and costs.
  • (16) A district (LG) and an appellate court (OLG) acknowledged the liability of the driver for injury to person and property damages.
  • (17) However, the ordering of retrials is relatively rare when an appellant has already served the sentence.
  • (18) In Howard v. Lecher a majority of the ''Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied a cause of action against an obstetrician alleged to be negligent in not properly advising a couple about the dangers they were running, as potential carriers, in having a child afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease.''
  • (19) The public vote was eventually overruled in the case of Boaty McBoatface and the ship named the RRS Sir David Attenborough, with an onboard submersible receiving the Boatface appellation.
  • (20) Starting from the dramatic increase of suicide rates with age combined with a marked decrease in non-letal suicide attempts it is argued that normally suicide-inhibiting social norms become less effective as a person appraoches old age, thus weakening the appellative motivation components of suicidal behavior and strengthening evasive strivings.

Petitioner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who presents a petition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police.
  • (2) And people such as the Lewis petitioners help with the dividing.
  • (3) The issue pitted over 2 million environmental petitioners against pesticide manufacturers such as Bayer Crop Science, which condemned the ban as “draconian” and a drag on competitiveness.
  • (4) Currently, the Fisa court has only one petitioner: the government.
  • (5) If higher residue limits are requested, the petitioner must perform lifetime testing in two rodent species including in utero exposure and a minimum of three dose levels.
  • (6) For this reason, I accept Petitioners’ argument that in the remaining five weeks before the general election, the gap between the photo IDs issued and the estimated need will not be closed.
  • (7) Apart from a half-victory for the eurosceptics in 2009, the judges have generally ruled against the petitioners.
  • (8) The petitioners proposed specifically that OPP use the neurotoxicity guidelines developed by EPA's own Office of Toxic Substances.
  • (9) The petitioners argued that the order suppressed their right to free speech and that their internet protocol addresses should be considered private information.
  • (10) The petitioners, four local people, are assembling their evidence, included sworn statements.
  • (11) The e-petitioners are likely to find themselves frustrated, if not by parliament then by the courts.
  • (12) The petitioners argue that academics provide publicly funded research articles to the journals free of charge, and also provide their peer review services for free, then they must pay Elsevier and similar publishers to access that same research once it has been put into a journal.
  • (13) Information about the grand jury that decided not to bring charges against a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner was “cherry-picked” by a district attorney facing public scrutiny over the case, petitioners told an appeals court on Tuesday.
  • (14) Presumably, the petitioners would prefer Lewis to stick to helping out with the various children’s festivities laid on by the dominant elite.
  • (15) There's also DC, where petitioners are pushing for full-on legalization .
  • (16) We are essentially operating guerrilla warfare and could be raided by the police at any minute.” Mugisha is one of the activists who, together with nine other petitioners, is seeking to overturn a tough anti-gay law that was signed by Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni in February , threatening anyone convicted of homosexuality with a life sentence, and banning the promotion of gay rights.
  • (17) Before listening to the debate, I ducked into the oak-panelled Walpole Room, where the HS2 committee were listening to petitioners.
  • (18) Other stories literally turned up on my doorstep – such as the petitioner who arrived at my office a few weeks before I left.
  • (19) No evidence for a discernible pattern justifying these rulings emerged from an examination of petitioner and court characteristics such as age, length of hearing, number of weeks pregnant, or presiding judge.
  • (20) "Does the sentiment of the petitioner get scandalized by the large number of photographs of erotic sculptures which are in circulation?"