Sentences with phrase «not at the behest»

Rawlings will when necessary criticise the excesses of the current regime but certainly, not at your behest.

Hein, at the time focused on the sale of the county nursing home on Golden Hill, was not of a mind to give up any revenue in uncertain times, certainly not at the behest of a state legislator he was learning to dislike.

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.

Not exact matches

«Design is one of the great leveraging tools companies have at their behest — and it's not just furniture,» says Barry Svigals of Svigals + Partners in New Haven, Conn..

Perhaps HP needs a board member who was not elected last year at Lane's behest to act as the new lead independent director.

In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.

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.

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 decline is largely a function of matching trades having been canceled by counterparties at the behest of regulators, and does not reflect the resurgence in new activity, says Pickel.

Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, two presidential candidates who sparred over the issue of Texas vaccinations, may be floundering in the polls, but the topic of Merck's controversial Gardasil is heating up — with an Austrian physician who studied the drug saying it is not only dangerous, but useless in reducing cervical cancer, the stated reason it was administered to young girls at the behest of Gov. Perry.

One must not forget that the scriptures tell tales of satanic crowds rising above our folds» Christian constabularies and in their controlled leveraging, they set the word's stage up for unifications of villainous servitudes all waging for totalitarianism values at the behest of an anti-Christian «demonocracies» we know to be as democracies.

Please rest assured that I wouldn't have done so at anyone's behest and I was never asked to be part of any kind of cover - up or gaslighting campaign.

Even when Packer walked away from the Diocese of New Westminster in 2002 at his bishop's behest (over disagreements relating to the blessing of same - sex unions), he did not attempt to embody an Anglican «ideal» in a free - church or nondenominational context (much to the disappointment of some of his Reformed friends).

Indeed many things have been done in Christendom, although often at the behest of the political / religious establishment to further their causes, that do not follow the example of Jesus or the principles set forth in the Gospel.

To get a gauge of just how inane the belief in creationism / intelligent design is in the 21st Century, here are some areas they must ignore, any one of which proves beyond rational argument that, not surprisingly, the World did not start about 6,000 years ago at the behest of the Judeo - Christian god, with one man, one woman and a talking snake.

But they are not being followed at the direct behest of the Commander in Chief.

If they are a record of God, would it not be blasphemy to remove them at teh behest of a council of humans?

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.

Where was the compassion for those people burned because they were believed to be witches, or the Inca who slaughtered in South America at the behest of a catholic priest when their king Atahualpa didn't immediately convert when seeing a bible?

Being told that you will suffer for all eternity at the behest of a supposedly loving and just being for the crime of not groveling before it due to a lack of evidence = PRETTY DARNED OFFENSIVE.

To get a gauge of just how inane that comment is, here are some areas fundamentalists must ignore, any one of which proves beyond rational argument that, not surprisingly, the World did n ¬ ot start about 6,000 years ago at the behest of the Judeo - Christian god.

«Live in a democracy» but you wouldn't mind seeing him out of his job at your behest.

I suspect Wenger will do his French thing with Debuchy at the behest of the France Head Coach, but Bellerin is the one who needs to be knocked off the teamsheet by Debuchy, not the other way round.

The Nerazzurri are at the behest of Chinese ownership who have stated they are not interested in freeing up funds for the winter mercato, instead holding things back to comply with Financial Fair Play rules.

Maggie and Megan: I certainly haven't seen all HISD schools in action (indeed, I've only been in a handful of lunch rooms, something I'd like to change) but I can say that HISD is currently implementing some «improved dining concepts», starting (at the behest of our superintendent) at the most impoverished schools.

In the recent blowup over the unverifiable allegation by a White House spokesman that GCHQ was spying on Trump before the election at the behest of the previous administration, the GCHQ issued a rare statement claiming that because of Five Eyes agreement (which dates to the 1970s) they do not participate in circumventing the laws of other participating nations.

In addition, the company won't pay state corporate taxes because the state Legislature, at Cuomo's behest last year, eliminated corporate taxes on manufacturers.

Cuomo issued a report in weeks not months, essentially saying that the State Police at the behest of the governor's top aides, had recreated reports on Senator Bruno's flights and fed them to the Times - Union.

But a source familiar with how those talks went down insists King was not acting at Cuomo's behest.

Yet, in this case, that does not seem to have been true: as the evidence showed, some Security Services officials appear to have a dubious record relating to actual involvement, and frankness about any such involvement, with the mistreatment of Mr Mohamed when he was held at the behest of US officials.

In a statement the group said: «Our involvement with the Sri Lankan Development Trust was not done for profit or at the behest of any clients.»

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.

Meanwhile, the long - rumored ouster of state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs, supposedly at the behest of Gov. Cuomo, is not going to happen, Democratic sources have told The Post.

Hoyt told The Buffalo News the conversation had nothing to do with Hochul and did not say it was at the behest of governor.

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.

Andrew Cuomo said in an interview that he had not intervened in the rental at Mr. Goldstein's behest, although he acknowledged that he knew Mr. Goldstein had threatened Mr. Partridge because of their differences.

While Alan Johnson talked up the threat of «deselections» by Momentum in his Prospect interview, the only Labour MP to have been deselected in recent party history wasn't done so at the behest of Momentum.

While Cuomo was not directly implicated in the federal complaint, prosecutors note that he received large campaign donations from the business people involved in the scheme, often at Howe's behest.

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.

It was not until he turned to playwright Tony Kushner, who earlier wrote «Munich» at Spielberg's behest, that he began to hear Lincoln's voice, perhaps a little too fulsomely; Kushner's first draft was more than 500 pages, nearly five times the customary length of a screenplay.

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.

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.

Coherency is not a high priority for Canadian first - time director Troy Nixey, who practically foregoes a story in favor of moody atmosphere, no doubt at the behest of the excessively respected del Toro.

He's there at the behest of his perpetually concerned wife, but the attention - seeking showman in him can't help but turn the meeting into a pro-gambling screed (they're in GA not because they're gamblers, but because they're bad gamblers).

At the behest of attorney Barry Scheck, a former member of O.J. Simpson's infamous Dream Team, the case was reopened and it was subsequently determined that Darryl's DNA did not match any of the semen left on the body of Sykes.

The idea of mechanized roving security cameras that go schizoid and start slaying people — perhaps at the behest of nefarious establishment masters, perhaps not — inescapably aligns with surging modern fears about privacy, and technological intrusion.

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.

Ostensibly, Rules Don't Apply is about fresh - faced Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), who arrives in Hollywood at the behest of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes (Beatty) to join his stable of starlets hoping to be the Next Big Thing.

This is not to understate the importance of the supporting players, only to underline that their characters are all there at the behest of Steve Jobs, genius.

Still other students attend Brandeis at the behest of their parents, who desire the diverse environment that neighborhood schools can't provide.