Sentences with phrase «place at the behest»

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.

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My brother tried putting off the dreaded outing and at my behest attempted to persuade the kid, who had never played, that the practice tee was the place to get a grounding in golf's evil ways.

Finally locating the girl in a mental institution, Nichols discovers that she's been placed there at the behest of a man who claims to be her husband.

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).

Yet, in this film with no dialogue, there's also an air of mystery and suspense, as clues are left to exactly why this place is left at the behest of the amphibian interlopers.

It grows out of the conversation of «more than two dozen policymakers, practitioners, researchers and advocates» that took place at CRPE's behest in January.

Introduced at the behest of Minnesota's oldest No Kill Shelter, Animal Ark, this bill provides legal protections for animals that are already saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals in two states where similar provisions have already been put into place.

You play a familiarly disembodied hand who, at the behest of possibly the most miserable teddy bear ever (called Ted, no less), must arrange a tea party by placing certain required items on the table before moving onto the next challenge.

When Both Members of This Club by George Bellows was placed on view at the National Gallery of Art in January 1945 at the behest of Gallery benefactor Chester Dale, it became the first significant work by an American modernist painter to be featured in the permanent collection.

This is what I have so much trouble with; bullshit in high places where there should be leadeship at the actual behest of the paying constituents!