Sentences with phrase «so at the behest»

Can it be that the Israelis arrested in the U.S. for selling arms to Iran did so at the behest of the U.S. government?

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today an effort to bolster his predecessor's far - reaching initiative to help young minority men improve their lives, insisting that he was doing so at the behest of President Barack Obama.

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.

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@dreamer — so you are saying that what congress did at the behest of the NRA was a good thing?

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.

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.

Usually, in the natural order, iron sinks in water, but the supernatural, if it wishes, can intervene so that an axhead floats at the behest of a prophet.

I assume they cut this out at the behest of the leagues in question for brand - image reasons, but I'm happy that 2K Sports seemed to find another, and perhaps better, way of expressing, «God, your team is so shitty.»

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.

I also asked Cuomo whether he's determined if the news reports of a lane closure in the Lincoln Tunnel at the behest of NYPD officials now ensnared in a corruption investigation are accurate and, if so, what the consequences will be.

So did Cuomo tell Foye and Rechler and others to back off at Christie's behest?

And so, at the behest of Lifetime, Hadid is returning to the small screen as the lead in her own unscripted — is there really such a thing?

Dar practically glows as he stops by the hotel room of Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub), the Iranian defector who lied to Keane at Dar's behest, so much so that Javadi even calls him out on it.

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.

We can not, of course, say that these groups came to the defense of high - stakes, standardized testing at the behest of the Gates Foundation, but we should be clear that their politics align with that of the Gates Foundation, and so the fact that these particular civil rights organizations came out in force to support a central reform backed by the foundation should come as no surprise to anyone.

So last week, doubtless at the behest of its new Italian parent, Dodge quietly killed the Caliber SRT4.

There's joy in discovering that you can pipe in something like Ride of the Valkyries so that it blares over your helicopters loudspeakers while it comes screaming in to provide support at your behest, or that a certain song played via your iDroid can lull enemies to sleep.

One fact is clear, according to a report issued today by a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences at the behest of United States intelligence agencies: The country lacks the capacity to clarify what lies ahead as greenhouse heating continues, so gird for surprises.

Their so - called truth could completely be at the behest of belief systems they wanted to believe.

He did so at the expense of the presumption of innocence and at the behest of a public interest group claiming special rules of evidence for victims of some crimes.»

Mr Justice Roth so eloquently states: «The Pt 18 procedure should not be used to force a defendant, in adversarial litigation, to provide what amounts to fragmentary witness evidence at the behest of the claimant at an earlier stage in the proceedings.»

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!