Sentences with phrase «created at the behest»

Merrill, which is now owned by Bank of America, agreed to pay a fine of $ 131 million, but did not admit wrongdoing in the deals, which were created at the behest of an Illinois - based hedge fund called Magnetar.

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

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.

The totem, created at the behest of the NAR Real Property Operations Committee, celebrates the spirit of the home.

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At the behest of the late Bruce Jacobs, a Seattle - area businessman and «paleocon» who didn't want to underwrite a local community foundation, Ball and a conservative strategist named Kimberly Dennis created Donors Trust.

A commission to plan an overhaul of the city's health - care delivery was created Friday at her behest.

At the board's behest, Dr. McGill effected the change in the district's configuration, creating primary schools at Woodstock and Phoenicia and an intermediate school at Bennett, and kept the Phoenicia school opeAt the board's behest, Dr. McGill effected the change in the district's configuration, creating primary schools at Woodstock and Phoenicia and an intermediate school at Bennett, and kept the Phoenicia school opeat Woodstock and Phoenicia and an intermediate school at Bennett, and kept the Phoenicia school opeat Bennett, and kept the Phoenicia school open.

Tkaczyk would later file to create an alternative Women's Equality Party, the ballot line created at Cuomo's behest in 2014.

In 2012 The Wall Street Journal reported that Cuomo's schedules did not show an October fundraiser where the Governor was pitched on a massive casino project by Genting, a group that had given millions to a lobbying group created at the governor's behest.

JCOPE Controversy: Four of the 14 commissioners from the Joint Committee on Public Ethics wrote an open letter on the questionable hiring of «special counsel,» a position excluded from the original JCOPE staffing plan, but created previously and now being again filled, this time with Kevin Gagan, who will be chief of staff and counsel, by the outgoing executive director, Letizia Tagliafierro, at the behest of the governor, whom she is leaving to work for.

It was the first dress Olivier ever made for Kim, created at Kanye's behest for her to wear to the Angel Ball in 2012.

In a cruel twist of fate, the first Metal Gear game (released for the MSX in 1987) saw Solid Snake, at the behest of the US government, tasked with taking down his «father», who had created an independent nation of soldiers in the «80s called Outer Heaven and built a walking nuclear - equipped tank to protect it.

Tomb raider was created by Sega Saturn at the behest of Sony in 1996.

1 «DESTRICTED» For this series of short films, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Mike Figgis, Sam Taylor - Wood, and Gaspar Noé have — or soon will have — created (at the behest of Neville Wakefield, Mel Agace, and Andrew Hale) some of the sexiest moments in recent cinema.

At the behest of his advisers, he created the MacArthur Family Foundation as a sort - of endowment, which was designed to keep his family comfortable by prorating their fortune over the foreseeable future.

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.

The commission that he led had been created by Quebec Premier Jean Charest after the province's former Justice Minister Marc Bellemare alleged that he been forced to name three judges to the bench at the behest of Quebec Liberal Party organizers and fundraisers.

But that doesn't answer the main point; whether the world's ruling clique is at the behest of a self - created, self - perpetuating, self - flagellating monster, and what might be the consequences for individuals and, indeed, society in general, of such a pernicious obsession.