behest造句

They arrested him at the King's behest.

I called the office at the behest of my secretary.

Klein with Tess's behest, with the feelings of remorse and Tess's sister started a new life.

Courts can delay projects for years at the behest of angry environmentalists or disappointed bidders.

But his arrest at the behest of Serbia will damage its relations with Bosnia.

There was a plastic pointer that was supposed to move across the board at the behest of the spirits.

At the behest of the President, NASA has been undergoing an independent review of its human-spaceflight plans.

NATO is in the country under a UN mandate, operating in defence and at the behest of an elected government.

Their servile lives were spent in grovelling and cringing and toiling and running about like little dogs at the behest of their numerous masters.

Since the Democratic Reform, religion-related cultural relics and historical sites, monasteries and temples have been well preserved at the behest of both the clerical and secular masses.

In the form of repeated extension of the copyright term at the behest of corporations who hold copyrights, and to the detriment of the public domain.

It was at Syria's behest that licensing rules, introduced in the 1990s, reduced the number of private television and radio channels from scores to a handful.

This insists on civilian control of the army, a condition the army suspects was inserted at the behest of the Zardari government.

These caps were designed in part to promote economic growth by allowing state-owned Banks to make cheap loans to local enterprises, often at the behest of the government.

Torreon's public schools provide remedial teaching for fewer than half of the 11,000 children whom the CDC determined were poisoned when it tested in 2001 at the behest of Mexico's government.

For example, France is showing a propensity towards open source: they moved all of their servers in their local education authorities to Linux at the behest of the Ministry of education.

Any other kind of Three People's Principles which lack this policy, do not give the peasants and workers whole-hearted assistance or do not carry out the behest to "arouse the masses of the people", will certainly perish.

Tonight, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Zal-man Shoval, said that Israel had refrained, at Washington's behest, from launching a pre-emptive strike at Iraq's missile batteries before the Iraqi attack but that his nation " reserved the right" to respond.