Petitioned

The villagers petitioned against the nuclear power plant.

Fadil petitioned for full custody of his children.

So the road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

Efforts to curb excess illumination are also underway from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest. The Czech law resembles one enacted in Italy's Lombardy region after 25,000 citizens petitioned against obtrusive outdoor lighting.