Sentences with phrase «act at the behest»

Multiple officials, including Pence, said the president was acting at the behest of Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

It turned out that CalPERS had acted at the behest of Sean Harrigan, Executive Director of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, who was then also serving as president of CalPERS board.

Personality one seemed to hold more knowledge and power than personality two, which was the public subservient personality acting at the behest of the dominant personality one.

The two had a rather heated exchange (through the media) in which the speaker questioned the former mayor's timing and motivation, suggesting he was acting at the behest of NYC's powerful landlords.

Murphy was acting at the behest of Trump's new management team headed by Stephen Bannon, the Breitbart News website chair, and Kellyanne Conway, a longtime GOP pollster, the source said.

Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children.

Acting at the behest of electric utilities who opposed the stricter standards, Pruitt first moved in April to delay implementation of the new guidelines.

Accusations that Bitcoin Classic essentially constitutes a coup, as well as allegations that Bitcoin Core is acting at the behest of the startup Blockstream, have thus far colored the nature of the debate in recent weeks.

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Perhaps HP needs a board member who was not elected last year at Lane's behest to act as the new lead independent director.

Instead of acting on these findings, the company opted to bury them, and ultimately, Dinesh Thakur, the executive who, at the behest of his boss, had uncovered the deception, left the company.

That instead of the Russian lawyer lying about having proof that Clinton was taking money from the Russians when she just wanted to talk about how the Magnitsky Act was impacting adoptions, there was an agreement made whereby someone did something illegal at the behest of Don, Jr. or someone else as a result of a specific agreement.

But a source familiar with how those talks went down insists King was not acting at Cuomo's behest.

The other, unique to Rockland, is the Rockland County Police Act, passed nearly 75 years ago at the behest of police unions and its sponsor, then Assemblyman Ferdinand Horn of Nanuet.

He said Mr. Cuomo had acted «at the behest of a major campaign contributor to the Governor.»

The public lack of grief on the part of the Royals brought about a great backlash against them, and fearing additional public resentment, Queen Elizabeth II, at the behest of current Prime Minister Tony Blair, agreed to some compromises in order to preserve the institution of the Royal Family, including a public television address and walking among the people, acts which were exceedingly rare for the Queen of England.

President Woodrow Wilson demonstrated this during his tenure in the early 20th century, when he worked to remove blacks from important civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt would deny jobs to black workers (at the behest of labor unions) with the passage of the Davis - Bacon Act two decades later.

In order to remove some of the controversy surrounding charter schools, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, at the behest of the Schweiker Administration, passed Act 88 of 2002.

This was the major reason I fought the new Copyright Act my government has since passed at the behest of the American government.

At the behest of an Admiral whose grip on reality seems to be slowing slipping you'll be guided through a total of 16 - levels, each acting as a test chamber for your new - found abilities.

That delicate balancing act comes to life with particular eloquence in the redesign of the State Floor's Old Family Dining Room, which, at Mrs. Obama's behest, was opened for public viewing in 2015 for the first time in White House history.

[27] It is rare for a state supreme court to adopt a regulatory measure that was not proposed to it, if not directly by the national organization of the ABA, then indirectly through a state or local bar association, acting at the state level on the behest of the ABA.

The blank media levy provisions of the Act were inserted at the behest of CRIA and others, who have since collected multi — millions of dollars in such levies.

The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program is a program that was created at the behest of the United States Congress in 2011, as part of the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act.