Sentences with phrase «passed at the behest»

Lawmakers wrapped up their regular legislative session last month almost giddy with their achievements: an on - time and frugal state budget, a local property - tax cap, renewed rent regulations and legalized gay marriage — all passed at the behest of the freshman governor.

Last month, a California court cited Brown v. Board as it struck down multiple state laws, passed at the behest of teachers» unions, which the court said unjustly protected incompetent teachers and unconscionably harmed children, especially the least fortunate.

This was the major reason I fought the new Copyright Act my government has since passed at the behest of the American government.

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The prophet is overwhelmed by the sense of Yahweh's coerciveness, and the prophetic symbol, so far from aiming at control of the deity, is inspired, performed, and interpreted at the behest of the Word of Yahweh to bring to pass the judgment and will of Yahweh in Israel and the world.

Rather than aiming at control of the deity, the prophetic symbol is inspired, performed, and interpreted at the behest of the Word of Yahweh, to bring to pass the judgment and will of Yahweh in Israel and the world.9

It took some weeks of prodding, but I finally obtained an internal document from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services branch revealing how the agency at the Senate's behest formulated the magic number — $ 2.6 billion — that it then passed on to the committee where the price mandate was hatched.

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.

At the behest of Smith, whose Masten Council district is a lead hotspot, the Council passed a resolution asking the Health Department to halt exterior home inspections.

The long - stalled measures were tabled at the behest of Mayor de Blasio, even though sources said there is more than enough support in the council to pass them.

The other, unique to Rockland, is the Rockland County Police Act, passed nearly 75 years ago at the behest of police unions and its sponsor, then Assemblyman Ferdinand Horn of Nanuet.

Because state legislators, at the behest of the National Education Association's affiliate there, refused to pass a law back in February allowing the use of test score growth data in teacher evaluations.

The defeat of H.R. 5 would also be an even more - humiliating political loss than the one he faced two years ago when 70 of his fellow Republicans, at the behest of Indian tribes in their districts and Native education groups, passed an amendment to retain Title VII as its own funding stream.

In order to remove some of the controversy surrounding charter schools, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, at the behest of the Schweiker Administration, passed Act 88 of 2002.

At the behest of the Pentagon, the U.S. Congress last year passed legislation that caps interest rates on consumer loans for military men and women at 36 percenAt the behest of the Pentagon, the U.S. Congress last year passed legislation that caps interest rates on consumer loans for military men and women at 36 percenat 36 percent.