Sentences with phrase «made at the behest»

The problem with a lot of these fads, and offices in general, is that many are made at the behest of the big boss making assumptions about what their people need to work their hardest.

First, Meg Whitman's nomination to HP's board was made at the behest of Ray Lane, the chair of HP's (hpq) board, circumventing the board's nominations processes, which raised concerns with ISS, a proxy advisory firm, and others.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

[SEPP Comment: Another drilling moratorium in the making at the behest of the environmental industry?]

Not exact matches

No individual or group of populists — not even Ralph Nader — can keep up with the millions of economic decisions made daily by government at the behest of the «private governments» — the corporate monopolies and conglomerates.

At the behest of my son's nutritionist, I began modifying the waffles I make for him a little bit here and there, to the point that it is now a completely different recipe than the one I first posted.

While Wenger has overseen a substantial change in Arsenal's philosophy and played a major role in their move from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium, Dyche has also had a hand in how Burnley have built the foundations for future success of the pitch, with the # 10.6 million Gawthorpe training ground redevelopment progressing well and other improvements made to the infrastructure of the club, often at Dyche's behest, paid for by the Premier League cash he has played such a huge role in securing.

The Park District made the decision last spring to replace the artificial surface with grass at the behest of the Bears, who believe grass is safer.

Corporations and other entities, from Wal - Mart to the YMCA, have made positive changes at her behest (even if for entirely cynical reasons).

all these work are executed by the junior engineer from govt side and the BLOCK DEVELOPMENT OFFICER makes the signature on cheques, so the J.E of the blocks at the behest of officers do the primary work of collecting money from these contractors, their job is to give the pass certificate to every work done by the petty contractors (knows nothing only political goons of the local mla in villages), if found guilty they should be sacked first.

Resellers can offer sales, discounts, and Buy One, Take One coupons for specific brands or for certain goods and products at their behest, since a merchant buys these supplies from manufacturers with the intent of making a cut of the profit afterwards.

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.

It has proved hard enough for Labour MPs to decide for themselves to get rid of Brown; making the change at the behest of a rival party would be even harder.

This was around the same time that the Town of Oyster Bay was backing loans made to Mangano friend Harendra Singh, a practice prosecutors say began at Mangano's behest the year before.

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 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.

At the behest of his readers in the intelligence community, Carr made a foray into their world, leading a successful crowdsourced project that determined the Russian government had been behind a series of hacks of Georgian websites.

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.

Uncommonly prolific across many genres (including Westerns, swashbucklers and musicals), Hungarian - born Curtiz made more than 60 movies in Europe and more than 100 in Hollywood, arriving in 1926 at the behest of Warner Bros..

Our protagonist tries to make ends meet by training horses, working at a drugstore and even, at the behest of his father, selling off his most prized possession, his horse.

Instead, Silk spins out like a languid travelogue with no place to go, as Herve (Michael Pitt) makes repeated months - long journeys to Japan at the behest of businessman Baldabiou (Alfred Molina).

So it makes sense that T'Challa wouldn't have been the first king of Wakanda to tug against its tradition of isolationism — if you remember, Civil War was kick - started by the deaths of a team of Wakandans on a «humanitarian outreach mission,» presumably at the behest of King T'Chaka.

When Winstead enrolls in Alcoholics Anonymous at the behest of love - struck coworker Nick Offerman (who makes the mistake of confessing his feelings for Winstead in a memorably cringe - inducing monologue that prominently features the once and future Ron Swanson fantasizing out loud about what it would be like to be inside Winstead's «moist pussy»), the boozy bond holding their marriage together begins to fall apart.

At the behest of Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, lawmakers held two special legislative sessions over the last year on education to enact a series of Race to the Top - related changes that included making the state's cap on charter schools less prohibitive and overhauling teacher evaluations.

At the behest of the State Board of Education, state officials put out school guidelines this month about the components of such teaching and learning, from emphasis on self - awareness to relationship skills to «responsible decision - making.»

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.

Significantly, the CTR3 made its debut at this April at the opening of Ruf's new factory, located in the grounds of the Bahrain Grand Prix circuit at the behest of the car maker's wealthiest fan and customer, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al - Khalifa, the man also responsible for bringing Formula 1 to Bahrain.

When the new Kindle shipped with a feature that let it read texts aloud in a synthesised voice it only took a few angry huffs and puffs from the US Author's Guild before the facility was made optional, to be turned off at the behest of the publisher.

Bespoke is a British term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest.

However, after that, one of Sega's trading partners ended up making a port for PS3, at Sega's behest.

With the market itself lacking the same polish as the rest of the game - the market keeper is an unvoiced orc who quite literally rubs his hands with glee when you make a purchase, by the way - it feels like something that was tacked on late into development at the behest of the publisher.

Frank Stella also made one unofficial art car at the behest of race car driver Peter Gregg.

His most memorable work is still a photograph he took of a photo of a 10 - year - old Brooke Shields, standing naked in a tub, shrouded in steam, her hair and face made up, her body oiled like some ancient - days courtesan, which a photographer named Gary Gross had taken at Shields's mother's own behest.

At the behest of gallery director Carl Ludwig Frommel, around the mid-19th century additions of more modern art were made to the collection.

It was introduced primarily at the behest of business to tackle the terrible levels of congestion that were making it really hard to attract the most talented people to live in London, and making the costs of running a retail business in London very hard, very high, and very hard to calculate, because you just didn't know how long it was going to take.

After gutting most of Canada's federal environmental legislation to expedite tar sands development and pipeline proposals at the behest of the oil industry, now the federal government is making it more difficult, and in some cases impossible, for members of the public to participate in the National Energy Board's (NEB) review of Enbridge's proposal to reverse its Line 9 pipeline through southern Ontario and Quebec.

This provision was added at the behest of environmental - justice advocates who have long fretted that big refineries and other polluters (often situated in low - income areas) could simply evade making cuts under cap and trade by buying up permits instead.

Followers of the legislative process will, however, have been fascinated by the number and scope of the late changes made to the Bill, mostly at the behest of the government.

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

Interestingly, this rule was made by the Florida Supreme Court at the behest of the Florida Bar.

This makes it easy to wake the screen and ask the phone to do something all at the behest of a personally configured command.

At the behest of the State Board of Education, state officials put out school guidelines this month about the components of such teaching and learning, from emphasis on self - awareness to relationship skills to «responsible decision - making.»