Sentences with phrase «only at the behest»

What is clear in articles 10 and 11 is that the USA is the gatekeeper, and new members are accepted only at its behest.

I recall the single screening I attended years earlier, and only at the behest of an out - of - town festival director who'd invited me.

Some do no regenerative braking and some can, but only at the behest of the engineer.

Not exact matches

Instagram is now pushing developers on a much more restrictive platform that only lets approved partners post at users» behest, and that can only pull mentions of and analytics about business accounts.

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.

Between 200 AD and 1500 AD, the only violence in the Middle East, that was done in the name of Jesus, was done at the behest of Catholic Christianity.

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.

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.

In reality all those powers lie with the Prime Minister and Parliament» and «The sovereign does actually still have official powers, but the sovereign only uses them at the behest of the elected government, namely the prime minister».

The sovereign does actually still have official powers, but the sovereign only uses them at the behest of the elected government, namely the prime minister.

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.

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.

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.

However, instead of leaving one of their members behind, only for that member to return hunting them at the behest of the authorities, we'll be following the gang members as they try to evade lawmen and bounty hunters in an epic game of cat and mouse spanning the «rugged heartland of America».

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.

This provision was promptly eviscerated at the behest of the unions: the Department of Education sheepishly allowed that the authority can be exercised only if the district's contract allows it.

Last year, Policy Watch reported that state officials, at the behest of the virtual programs, agreed to nix daily attendance reporting requirements, meaning schools would only lose state funding if a student failed to show activity for ten consecutive days.

However, to leave readers with the impression that a movement which has been growing for four years and which has resulted, this Spring, in over 175,000 test refusals in New York State alone, is working at the behest of the national teachers» unions is not only disrespectful of parental leadership, but also it is disrespectful of facts.

In Britain — presumably at the behest of the marketing department — we're only getting a relatively small part of the xDrive range.

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.

«Imagine a world» where ALL content is only available at the behest of someone / something... Books stimulate an individual's own unique imagination, own the channel for providing that input into a person's mind and also have the ability to manage and even control that same person's perceptions.

The companies only modified their anti-consumer behaviour at the CRTC's aggressive behest, she said.

The only formal texts in the UN process are the ones tabled by the Chairs of this Copenhagen conference at the behest of the Parties.»

Where the Government considers, most probably after consultation, that it is in the interest of businesses to amend UK regulatory law that was in place at the behest of EU law, that will only take place after the UK has legally left the EU.

Instagram is now pushing developers on a much more restrictive platform that only lets approved partners post at users» behest, and that can only pull mentions of and analytics about business accounts.