Sentences with phrase «came at the behest»

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.

And, this destruction of the United States will come at the behest of «business» interests.

Not exact matches

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.

For example Jeremy's support for the EU was itself a compromise, which came about three days after he became leader presumably at the behest of his parliamentary colleagues.

On the heels of last month's revelation that now former Assemblyman Nelson Castro had been wearing a wire for federal prosecutors determined to bust some of his fellow corrupt colleagues for almost his entire tenture in office comes the news that yet another legislator agreed to use a recording device at the feds» behest.

«This is why coming here today at the behest of the President is first, to look at the situation myself, to get a first - hand view of the situation because the President has mandated me to take this on board and deal with the issues,» Osinbajo added.

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.

«There's a fascination with the complexity that is coming out of these incredibly simple rules,» says Susan Stepney, a computer scientist at the University of York, UK, who ran Gemini inside Life, at New Scientist «s behest.

He's come to the vast eponymous estate at the behest of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to assess the psychological state of the heiress (Helen Mirren), whose ongoing pet project — and her habit of roaming the twisting halls at all hours and in all black, like an apparition herself — has left the board concerned about her well - being, or perhaps just salivating at the opportunity to wrest away her 50 - percent stake in the company.

It came out earlier this year and was a B - movie set in an office building about employees who were forced to kill each other at the behest of a mysterious voice who locked them inside.

We can not, of course, say that these groups came to the defense of high - stakes, standardized testing at the behest of the Gates Foundation, but we should be clear that their politics align with that of the Gates Foundation, and so the fact that these particular civil rights organizations came out in force to support a central reform backed by the foundation should come as no surprise to anyone.

They were developed at the behest of the state governors and chief state school officers to avoid the charge of federal intrusion — which came nonetheless after the Obama administration advocated for the CCSS in the Race to the Top funding competition and provided the financing for the Common Core testing consortia.

There's joy in discovering that you can pipe in something like Ride of the Valkyries so that it blares over your helicopters loudspeakers while it comes screaming in to provide support at your behest, or that a certain song played via your iDroid can lull enemies to sleep.

He came in the «50s at the behest of his childhood friend Ed Ruscha and never looked back.

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.

What really matters regarding the coming unimaginable colossal global ecological wreckage that could soon be induced at the behest of too many leaders «on our watch» is not being openly discussed nearly enough.

SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica (CA), says it came to southeast Asia's most populous nation at the behest of «pro-democratic groups» to «assist with a national campaign of political reform and democratization.»