Sentences with phrase «working at the behest»

Hey, for all we know, hackers working at the behest of friends of (friends of) Trump are the culprits.

Tony had a legion of lawyers, union officials, correction officers, and constituents whom would work at his behest.

«Despite the City's beliefs, my investigation of the events leading up to the City's allegations... found no wrongdoing on the part of DiTullio and no evidence that DiTullio was working at the behest of COR or the New York State Administration,» Leahy Scott wrote.

The legislation was eventually killed by lawmakers working at the behest of the unions.

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.

The J - Codes are a set of UTBMS codes developed by the Jackson Steering Committee, working at the behest of the Judiciary of England and Wales, and charged with developing a set of litigation task codes specifically for their own region and industry sector.

Not exact matches

The problem with a lot of these fads, and offices in general, is that many are made at the behest of the big boss making assumptions about what their people need to work their hardest.

Perkins Coie, at Elias's behest and with the bills ultimately paid by Clinton and the DNC, continued to fund Fusion's work through the end of October 2016, though the people involved say that neither the campaign nor the DNC was aware of the details of Fusion's work.

While working at a salon during the day and clubbing on most nights, she had started snorting meth at the behest of her friends and kept at it until some days she drove for hours trying to score.

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.

According to a prosecutor at the Skelos trial, employees hired at Bonomo's behest are known internally as «AB Referrals,» and were uniquely allowed to work from home — something Bonomo denied.

Last week at the behest of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the rupture between the progressive Working Families Party and progressive unions intensified, with two powerful SEIU and CWA locals withdrawing support for the WFP on the eve of its endorsement of Cuomo rival Cynthia Nixon.

Glenwood lobbyists will allegedly say the firm Goldberg & Iryami was hired for tax work in 2000 at Silver's behest to «accommodate» him because Glenwood depended on state subsidies, tax abatements and rent regulation.

JCOPE Controversy: Four of the 14 commissioners from the Joint Committee on Public Ethics wrote an open letter on the questionable hiring of «special counsel,» a position excluded from the original JCOPE staffing plan, but created previously and now being again filled, this time with Kevin Gagan, who will be chief of staff and counsel, by the outgoing executive director, Letizia Tagliafierro, at the behest of the governor, whom she is leaving to work for.

The Corning Museum of Glass has been instrumental in their restoration, working at Harvell's behest, and a selection is currently on view in an exhibition that runs through the beginning of 2017.

Kubrick's next picture was the first and last time he ever allowed himself to work at the studio's behest.

Working with still photographer Paul Strand, at the behest of the progressive Mexican government, Zinnemann directed a dramatised documentary about a village of fishermen, called Redes, literally «Nets» but known in English as The Wave (1934).

For those unfamiliar with the Thomas Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice follows Larry «Doc» Sportello (Phoenix), a pot - smoking detective working on a kidnapping case at the behest of an ex-lover during the 1970s in Los Angeles.

Our protagonist tries to make ends meet by training horses, working at a drugstore and even, at the behest of his father, selling off his most prized possession, his horse.

Flash forward to adult Jane who begins work as a governess at Thornfield House at the behest of Edward Rochester (an excellent Michael Fassbender, Fish Tank, Inglourious Basterds), a magnetically repellent bachelor who spares little thought to the feelings of others, including his loyal chief of staff, Mrs Fairfax (Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love).

In 1950s Ireland, Ellis is sent across the big blue at the behest of her mother and older sister Rose to accept work proffered by family friend and Catholic priest Fr.

Their work culminates in a report produced over a three — week period in the summer, at district behest and with district financial support, resulting in a new local mathematics curriculum framework.

President Woodrow Wilson demonstrated this during his tenure in the early 20th century, when he worked to remove blacks from important civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt would deny jobs to black workers (at the behest of labor unions) with the passage of the Davis - Bacon Act two decades later.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

at NJEA's behest because she worked for eighteen months at a pro-choice organization called Democrats for Education Reform.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

Is it thinkable for authors to cast off from the biggest marketplace for their work in history at the behest of beleaguered merchants?

The loggias — or exterior walls — which cover many of the beautiful wrought iron staircases in the old Plateau area are said to have been constructed at the behest of the church which found their serpentine curves too voluptuous.

Players assume the role of Jack Joyce, an orphan with a troubled past who has returned to his hometown of Riverport after a long stint overseas at the behest of his childhood friend Paul Serene (played by Game of Thrones «Aidan Gillen), who has become something of a rock star businessman and wannabe quantum physicist working alongside Jack's brother Will.

A studio assistant added the note at Rauschenberg's behest, likely just before the work toured with the 1976 exhibition Robert Rauschenberg (October 30, 1976 — January 15, 1978).

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.

His most memorable work is still a photograph he took of a photo of a 10 - year - old Brooke Shields, standing naked in a tub, shrouded in steam, her hair and face made up, her body oiled like some ancient - days courtesan, which a photographer named Gary Gross had taken at Shields's mother's own behest.

During the sixteen years that the work was in Richter's collection, the painting was exhibited, at his behest, in 21 major shows throughout the world including the monumental exhibition of his work Atlas in Japan in 2001 and the landmark Richter retrospective Forty Years of Painting at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

«At best I was hoping that our group would be considered credible and that we would be injected, at the behest of one or more of the responsible agencies, directly into the process with the BP engineers who are working the problem,» he said in an e-mail messagAt best I was hoping that our group would be considered credible and that we would be injected, at the behest of one or more of the responsible agencies, directly into the process with the BP engineers who are working the problem,» he said in an e-mail messagat the behest of one or more of the responsible agencies, directly into the process with the BP engineers who are working the problem,» he said in an e-mail message.

At the behest of the Los Angeles Business Council, J.R. DeShazo, director of UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation, has studied whether feed - in tariffs will work as advertised.

The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program is a program that was created at the behest of the United States Congress in 2011, as part of the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act.

Jennifer, I'm sorry to hear about your fiancé leaving you at the counselor's behest, when you were just trying to work things out.

The Broker had alleged that there was a definite agreement between the parties and that he had performed extensive work at Brennan's behest pursuant to this agreement.