How To Use Behest In A Sentence
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Whereofter, behest his suzerain law the Thing and the pilsener had the baar, Recknar Jarl, (they called him Roguenor, Irl call him) still passing the change-a-pennies, pengeypigses, a several sort of coyne in livery, pushed their whisper in his hairing,
Finnegans Wake
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Now they are saying that the post-mortem report was also doctored at Rathore's behest, which is totally wrong," she said, adding Girhotra did not inform the Panchkula police before taking his daughter to the PGI in Chandigarh.
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He placed on the FPPC's website spreadsheets detailing so-called behest contributions, in which politicians funnel large donations to their pet charities from special interests.
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In fact, the troupe first staged the play in Delhi at the behest of the French Embassy on the occasion of Hugo's bicentenary celebrations.
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Yet she seemed to insinuate that he was here at her behest, and that somehow she intended to make him stay.
COLDHEART CANYON
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The early European navigators and explorers mostly undertook their voyages at the behest of kings in search of wealth.
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The early European navigators and explorers mostly undertook their voyages at the behest of kings in search of wealth.
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The local banks at the behest of the big quadrumvirate might be coerced into straining their resources still further.
The Titan
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So the idea that Congress passed the NASA authorization act at Griffin's behest is ludricous.
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Yet she seemed to insinuate that he was here at her behest, and that somehow she intended to make him stay.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson then "reluctantly" called Buffett at Fuld's behest and signaled he would like the billionaire to invest in Lehman, but "did not load the dice.
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Within the first week, Saudi Arabia had gathered massive humanitarian aid at the behest of apical leadership.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View
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The motion said that in January 2007, just before the collapse of the subprime market, Goldman Sachs and its young whiz-kid Fabrice Tourre worked together to issue a set of synthetic collaterized debt obligations (CDOs) that it sold to ACA Management LLC (ACA) at the behest of the then-unknown hedge fund manager John Paulson.
The Goldman Gaffe
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He was merely rebalancing his portfolio, at the behest of his financial adviser.
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Yet she seemed to insinuate that he was here at her behest, and that somehow she intended to make him stay.
COLDHEART CANYON
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The accomplisher of his preceptor's behest, having obtained them, he felt great delight and set out speedily for the city of Champa adorned with festoons of Champaka flowers.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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Believing in demons is one thing; believing you have the ability to call up a supernatural being with infinite power and perfection who will cause demons to move on at your behest seems certifiable.
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The only eagles that had ever carried off lambs were Kaled'a'in-bred bondbirds, who had the required wingspread and muscle mass, and carried them off at the behest of their bondmates.
The Silver Gryphon
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Things eventually get so bad that one of the partners (at the behest of the board of directors) terminates the other partner, who is then escorted from the building by security.
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While the birthers and state-house hacks obsess over his convoluted neonatal underpinnings, far greater matters percolate at the President's behest.
Obama's Fake Progressive Birth Certificate
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On one side stood Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican concerned that Congress was "hamstringing" this new regulator at the behest of the companies.
Free Internet Press
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He refused, so Treasury Secretary Baker met secretly with Speaker Wright (who, at the behest of Texas control frauds, was holding our proposed bill to recapitalize the FSLIC insurance fund hostage in order to prevent us from securing the funds to close more of the control frauds).
William K. Black: Geithner as Martyr to an Ungrateful Nation: Bo Cutter's Tragicomic Portrayal of Tim as a "Man for all Seasons" (Part 2)
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Apparently on behest of Washington in July 2008 Zardari government abortively tried to put the powerful military-run spy agency, Inter Services
Capitulating Terms of the $4.5 Billion US aid to Pakistan
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At the behest of Congress, the Department of Defense released a report in 2006 that documented how high-interest lenders set up shop outside of military towns, leading many soldiers into debts they could not handle.
At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates
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But Virginie is sent to Paris at the behest of a rich maiden aunt who desires to educate her to receive her fortune.
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At the ANC's behest many of the chamber's proposals remain shelved; TMC members seem to spend much of their time discussing the minutes of previous meetings.
The Struggle to Govern Johannesburg
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Ultimately, General Myers, apparently at the behest of Haynes (who presumably was acting on behalf of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld) "quashed" Dalton's review.
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In Ireland, for instance, schools of design were set up in Belfast, Cork, and Dublin in 1850, after the famine; the Belfast one failed, only to be refounded in 1865 at the behest of local linen and printing trades.
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The budget proposal was adopted at the president's behest.
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Master, he will accompany you to the west at Guanyin's behest.
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Her son John Balliol, who became King of Scotland at the behest of King Edward I had his regalia stripped from him by Edward when he didn't toe the line.
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Surely acting at the behest of Tehran, the Iraqi Prime Minister ordered the deadly assault.
Hajar Mojtahedzadeh: Stop the Killings at Camp Ashraf
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Aeriel begins a journey at the behest of the wraiths and a dwarflike creature who befriends her, and her own desire to save Irrylath to decipher a riddle about the vampyres destruction.
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The fourth behest, O my son, is Beware of wine-bibbing, for wine is the head of all frowardness and a fine solvent of human wits.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He was merely rebalancing his portfolio, at the behest of his financial adviser.
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By his own admission, he did not pay sufficient attention to the details, and Bill Clinton, at the behest of Marc Rich's attorney, Scooter Libby, pardoned Rich, a notorious defrauder who had escaped to Switzerland without going to trial or serving a day in prison.
Paul Abrams: Why Rove Attacks Eric Holder: To Provide Cover for Bush's Pardons
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A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of Boston at his behest.
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hamstringing" this new regulator at the behest of the companies.
ORACULATIONS
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From across the English Channel comes Modesty Blaise, kittenish superspy who, with her slippery sidekick Willie Garvin, tangles in various criminal intrigues at Her Majesty's behest.
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Even if people switch their votes from party to party, election by election it does not follow that they do so at the behest of their daily paper.
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This is done usually at the behest of central bankers who are still somewhat perplexingly attached to strong currencies at all costs.
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Is it possible that any thing can be more just, than to inquire rigorously into the rights, sedulously to examine the foundations, to try by every known test, the stability of doctrines, that involve in their operations, consequences of such colossal magnitude; that embrace, in their dictatory mandates, matters of such high behest; that implicate the eternal felicity of such countless millions in the vortex of their action?
The System of Nature, Volume 2
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The fact that the rest of the counrtry begrudges an interstate on-ramp, bridge or courthouse at Bob Byrd’s behest is galling considering how little has been spent on the region in the past.
Matthew Yglesias » The Case Against Porkbusting
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FARRELL: I'm afraid I have to say that I think if the west started getting into the game of asking Muslim clerics to issue fatwas then it would put the clerics in a very difficult situation and it would kind of invalidate the fatwa if they did it because they would look like they're doing it at the behest of the west.
CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2006
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The early European navigators and explorers mostly undertook their voyages at the behest of kings in search of wealth.
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His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone.
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She had visited him somewhat reluctantly at the behest of a friend.
Times, Sunday Times
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To say what was done was done at the behest of officials is totally incorrect.
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But Congress is ready to reach for our wallets at the behest of President Bush and Wall Street lobbyists who threaten us with a 1932 style Depression if they do not get $700 billion for the debts of Wall Street gamblers and financial inebriates!
Eric Cantor Kills Bail Out
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The tall, thin man was the innkeeper -- evidently a timorous fellow; the hunchback was his 'man' -- malevolent probably, the doer of the other's dark behests; whilst the woman was presumably his wife, the cook and housekeeper of the ale-house.
Border Ghost Stories
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The enamoured look in her soft, brown eyes lessened the harshness of her behest.
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Grandbois: The last time I heard anything remotely flattering about Buckwaldo Mudthumper I was three feet deep in viscous sewage that had found its way into my garden apartment at the behest of one Mr. Juan Mandible Sick-Eyes and his uncompromising hoses.
Daniel Grandbois' Lucky Unlucky Lucky Days
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Within months she was a heroin addict, pregnant with their first child, and at his behest prostituting herself in Las Vegas to alcoholic gamblers to support both their habits.
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Now that Obama is in full re-election mode, the labor union bosses seem to be ratcheting down the rhetoric of their anti-trade demagoguery, at the behest we assume, of Obama’s advisers.
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The newest addition, a small, 12 year old wire haired terrier, arrived at the behest of my partner who is obviously going through one of those strange broody phases that often occur with women of a certain age.
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You have chosen to act at the instance and behest of (activist) Ms Medha Patkar and others in haste and in a high-handed arbitrary manner, " the statement said.
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The committee was formed at the behest of Governor Sinclair.
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And within this relationship local authorities were seen as decentralized administrative agents, acting at the behest of the centre.
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Here are just a few:At the behest, or insistence, of the Bush administration, the governing elites of the other two countries have worked rapidly to "securitize" the region which, at least in Mexico, has translated into increased militarization.
Twenty Reasons to Be Concerned About the SPP
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At his behest, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has been looking at the legality of the EU constitution and it has now announced that it would not rule on it until after there was a final decision on the fate of the EU treaty.
Germany to dump EU constitution?
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In a secret corner of his soul, Jan still pines a little for "Elissa" aka The White Stone despite knowing for sure that at Alessandra's behest and to make him Hirzig after all, the assassin killed his beloved uncle Finn who served as both "older brother and father" figure instead of the drunkard and later rebel nobleman that was Allesandra's estranged husband.
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duplicitously" at the behest of the German government.
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Another man, reminding his mother of how his father used to thrash him at her behest, was told, ‘You were a bad child and you deserved it.’
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An thou pass safely through this period, thou shalt win to high rank and succeed to thy sire’s reign; but an things go otherwise then the behest is with Allah from the beginning to the end thereof.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yet she seemed to insinuate that he was here at her behest, and that somehow she intended to make him stay.
COLDHEART CANYON
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The enamoured look in her soft, brown eyes lessened the harshness of her behest.
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The items were sold at the behest of his descendants and fetched much more than the auctioneers had bargained for.
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Likewise, we once poured forth of our abundance in selfless sharing with the destitute of the world, obedient to the behest of God to "love one another" and to demonstrate our love by generously giving of our superabundance to those who are bereft of all substance.
Wide, Wide World
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To do so the group of co-ed misfits is taken to the Blackwell Hotel to spend the weekend cleaning the place up at the behest of a little old lady in charge of the restoring of the Blackwell to it’s once grand state.
The Cutting Room Floor: See No Evil » Fanboy.com
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At Castiglioni's behest, Ducati's chief engineer, Massimo Bordi, developed a high-performance, ultra-efficient four-valve desmodromic cylinder head, the Desmoquattro, that propelled Ducati motorcycles to the lead in international races.
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GM's Rick Wagoner ostensibly stepped down at the president's "behest," a euphemism for
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‘At the moment they can just be deconsecrated at the behest of a bishop and the people who paid for these churches have no say,’ Mr Cassidy said.
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The fourth behest, O my son, is Beware of wine-bibbing, for wine is the head of all frowardness and a fine solvent of human wits.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It comes not at the behest of some charismatic national leader or the bidding of some strident national organization.
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Yet she seemed to insinuate that he was here at her behest, and that somehow she intended to make him stay.
COLDHEART CANYON
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At the behest of the studio he introduced a voiceover narration to explain the story to audiences and tacked on a happy ending.
Times, Sunday Times
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They conceive a child, marry and quickly divorce at the grandparents' behest.