Under the Law on Complaint and Petition, citizens are entitled to submit complaints to stop encroachment upon their rights and interests or seek compensation for the encroached rights and interests.

依据《投诉和诉愿法》，公民有权对侵犯自己权利和利益的行为进行投诉并就遭受侵犯的权利和利益要求赔偿。

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S. citizens and permanent residents to petition for certain relatives to come and live permanently in the United States.

美国为了促进家庭团结，允许美国公民、永久居民请一些亲属到美国长期生活。

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Eventually, 50, 000 concerned citizens sign its petition, and even Walter Cronkite gets hoodwinked-until it's discovered that Prout is actually comedian Buck Henry.

最后，50000名市民签署了请愿书，甚至Walter Cronkite(美国CBS主播)也上当受骗了，直到人们发现Prout实际上是喜剧演员Buck Henry。

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Cellphone unlocking is an important issue because a free society should not require its citizens to petition their government every three years to allow access to technologies that are ordinary and commonplace.

FORBES: FCC to Investigate Cellphone Unlocking

It also brought the ballot initiative and an innovation known as the recall, which allowed citizens to petition for an official to have his term of office brought prematurely to an end.

ECONOMIST: Mark Neumann, Republican hothead

They had hired people who were not Oklahoma citizens to gather petition signatures for a referendum to impose spending limits on Oklahoma's profligate legislators.

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