Sentences with phrase «formed at the behest»

About LACI: LACI is a nonprofit formed at the behest of the City of Los Angeles in October 2011 to build a world - class cleantech innovation hub and to accelerate LA's green economy.

• Third, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of democracy.»

New Yorkers United For Marriage, the pro-same-sex marriage coalition formed at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spent $ 1.8 milllion on lobbying efforts in the two months leading up to the successful vote.

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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.

With the experience question on the minds of some, there seems to be a nascent movement toward a city manager form of government, something voters narrowly adopted in 1993, only to have it overturned at the behest of City Hall in exchange for a strong - mayor form of government the following year.

The Committee to Save New York was formed in late in 2010 at the behest of Governor Cuomo.

But now the District's Department of Energy and Environment is proposing to «revisit» the TNR policy at the behest of the American Bird Conservancy, a group well - known for opposing TNR in all forms.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.

The latest round of «Russia hacked the DNC» claims has arrived in the form of a jailed Russian who claims to have left proof on the Democrat National Committee's server that he was behind the hack, which, he claims, was done at the behest of Russia's FSB.

In the beginning, cities and counties dipped their toes in the water by adopting form - based codes — sometimes at a developer's behest and sometimes at their own initiative — to regulate specific projects or districts such as downtown.

At the behest of best - selling author Gina Smith, he began writing long - form journalism in January, 2014.