What's the difference between petitioned and petitioner?
Petitioned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Petition
Example Sentences:
(1) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(2) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(3) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(4) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(5) Nearly 740,000 people have signed a petition calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, organised by the campaign group Avaaz.
(6) Monday's petition showdown is a chance to demonstrate they have the popular support to back up those claims.
(7) Cameron made clear in his speech that Britain remains committed to the individual right to petition.
(8) Differently from generalised non convulsive seizures (like petit mal absences), their first appearance has no typical age limit, however, their proportion to other forms of seizures increases in adolescence and adults especially between the third and fifth decade of life.
(9) Induction of petite (cytoplasmic-respiration-deficient, rho-,rho-) mutations in yeast and deletion of mitochondrial drug-resistance genetic markers were compared after after treatment with ethidium and the corresponding photoaffinity probe, ethidium azide.
(10) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.
(11) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
(12) In terms of education, a representative of the Born Free Foundation once pointed out, out of millions of visitors to zoos in Europe, only 2% signed a bushmeat petition.
(13) Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.
(14) In a relatively high proportion of the transformants, disruption of the 17-kDa gene was accompanied by the appearance of a second mutation causing a petite phenotype.
(15) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
(16) In disorders of petit mal epilepsy and parkinsonian tremor, centrally and peripherally observable rhythmic patterns are due to network oscillations of thalamocortical cells.
(17) It’s time to speak out, to bring this impunity to an end, time for men to change their behaviour rather than for women to adapt to it,” the petition says.
(18) None had petit mal, confirming its rarity in the elderly.
(19) Ureterosigmoidostomy with anti-reflux technique (Petit-Leadbetter procedure) was performed in 12 children, mainly after failure to repair an exstrophy.
(20) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.
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?"