Sentences with phrase «at one's behest»

The Iranian defendants are accused of working at the behest of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to steal large quantities of academic data from hundreds of universities in the United States and abroad as well as email accounts.

And an independent digital forensic investigation done at the behest of Heartland institute found that the disputed memo was not created on Heartland's computer system and didn't exist there or in Heartland's email system prior to its publication on February 14, 2012.

In court filings in the Rettenmaier case, the U.S. government has rejected the argument that Best Buy workers are federal agents, and claimed they don't act at the behest of the FBI.

Hey, for all we know, hackers working at the behest of friends of (friends of) Trump are the culprits.

For centuries, our senior police constables have made operational decisions not at the behest of government and the political whims of the day, but based on their professional view of how best to uphold the law and keep the peace, dealing with everything from petty theft to major terrorist plots.

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.

The attacks were to be made at the behest of Bank of America, as it girded its loins in preparation for a promised exposure.

I suggest you read you Bible, while there are evil people doing evil things, often at the behest of God, but more importantly, if you believe the Bible much of the evil comes from God himself.

I know that makes it sound like I exist and write only at the behest of publishers, but the simple fact is that without review code I'd barely be able to do a review or two a month due to incredibly limited funds, especially the big triple - A titles that # 40 price tags.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today an effort to bolster his predecessor's far - reaching initiative to help young minority men improve their lives, insisting that he was doing so at the behest of President Barack Obama.

Finally locating the girl in a mental institution, Nichols discovers that she's been placed there at the behest of a man who claims to be her husband.

The endorsement from the WEP, a ballot line formed at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 to promote women's issues in his re-election campaign, comes the same day the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a package of abortion regulations in Texas.

The current pilot program was created at the behest of former Gov. Mike Pence, now the vice president, over the objection of many skeptics.

Like Amazon's read - aloud feature, LendMe can be turned off by publishers, and even when it's available, it is, bizarrely and presumably at the behest of book publishers, a one - time option: Lend a book once, and you can never do so again.

Yahoo has secretly scanned hundreds of millions of incoming emails at the behest of US intelligence or law enforcement, according to a report.

He observed that s. 145 (6) of the Land Titles Actalso permits the Examiner to make changes at the behest of a third party.

The La Leche League's 57 Years of Helping New Mothers «A group of seven mothers got together at the behest of a family physician, Gregory White, to share their «expertise» on breastfeeding with other new mothers in his practice.

250GT California Spider, 1957 - 1962 These Pininfarina - styled and Scaglietti - bodied roadsters were designed specifically for the American market at the behest of Ferrari's U.S. importer, Luigi Chinetti.

The Wolverine finds Logan looking to put to rest the ghosts of his past, and travelling to Japan at the behest of someone he saved years ago.

At a lunch meeting called at his behest in Accra on Thursday, Mr. Awuku expressed concerns at the seeming lack of respect among the hopefuls and the derogatory comments...

Yesterday Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and other elected officials, seemingly at the behest of Governor Cuomo, held a press conference to denounce what they see as insufficient support for Israel from Tim Wu and running mate Zephyr Teachout.

If the contribution had gone to members of the state legislature, whose job it is to represent citizens and change state laws at their behest, it would have been a different matter.

He and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is seeking Lenihan's removal at the behest of Mayor Byron Brown, have not spoken directly in about a year.

Last month, a California court cited Brown v. Board as it struck down multiple state laws, passed at the behest of teachers» unions, which the court said unjustly protected incompetent teachers and unconscionably harmed children, especially the least fortunate.

The meeting was held at the behest of Republican members of the Senate and House energy committees who were concerned that PURPA was no longer relevant, given the changes that have swept through the electric power market in the past three decades.

Remember that this was, after all, not a hurried note despatched to a friend, but a letter written at the behest of the Royal Society in order to publicly resolve an embarrassing public quarrel between two of its fellows.

Rumored to be behind over a dozen murders at the behest of the infamous Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), Conlon doesn't have much left to live for.

Because OERI administered a pot of discretionary funds for the department, we were often burdened with earmarks - that is, an appropriation set aside by Congress, usually at the behest of influential legislators, for specific school districts or institutions in their home states or congressional districts.

Your letter goes on to claim that Heartland has «disseminated «alternative facts» and fake science at the behest of its industry funders for decades.»

The only god who could possibly exist is one who punished clay - man and rib - girl for eating a magical apple at the behest of a talking snake.

... while you're ahead» is one nugget of conventional wisdom that few CEOs appear to heed, at least judging by the number of executives who have left companies at the behest of shareholders — or, worse, regulators.

But after my own investigation, taken at the behest of two Lunch Tray readers, it became clear that such chicken could easily be fed to our school children.

McGinty came here at the behest of state Sen. Vincent Hughes, an influential Democratic leader from Philadelphia who was on hand to offer his support.

According to labor sources, Mr. Cabrera was urged to run at the behest of State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference and a fellow Bronx elected, after Mr. Rivera hinted that he would throw his support behind Mr. Klein's own challenger, Oliver Koppell.

Hard - drinking, ex-minor-league hopeful Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) grumpily agrees to coach a Little League team at the behest of lawyer - councilman Bob Whitewood (Ben Piazza), who has a vendetta against the league for excluding his marginally talented son from play.

Where the Government considers, most probably after consultation, that it is in the interest of businesses to amend UK regulatory law that was in place at the behest of EU law, that will only take place after the UK has legally left the EU.

Yet, in this film with no dialogue, there's also an air of mystery and suspense, as clues are left to exactly why this place is left at the behest of the amphibian interlopers.

Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue - ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything but stellar.

I used to be afraid that I would live in a dystopian future reminiscent of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, where people feared and burned books at the behest of the government.

Glancing at the background will reveal things like Raiden's costume from Mortal Kombat, and you'll fight in an ultimate tournament at the behest of a mafia Don.

Both CBS and Viacom have formed independent board committees to consider a merger at the behest of NAI, and whether terms of a merger can be agreed is now up to them.

The libel put out by people like Steven Milloy and AFM founder Roger Bate [1], in which it is suggested that the failure of the eradication program was due to a mythical ban on DDT imposed at the behest of environmentalists, who callously caused millions of deaths, depends critically on ignoring resistance.

The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest city.