What's the difference between petitioner and suppliant?

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?"

Suppliant


Definition:

  • (a.) Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
  • (a.) Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
  • (n.) One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Roars of approval from the Tory benches, suppliant sniggers from the sketchwriters.)
  • (2) Film producers will be calling on your mobile phone – but you will be wary, because you have always had to protect yourself from suppliants and admirers.