Sentence examples for * behest in from inspiring English sources

(The two men switched roles at Mr. Iger's behest in 2009).

It was put back in the southern towers at Napoleon's behest in 1802.

Mrs. Miller helped organize the fellowship program at her father's behest in 1940.

At his father's behest, in 1946, on the Irish Democrat circuit, he went into politics, as a Congressman.

When they were cut at the IMF's behest in early 1998, the ensuing riots helped bring Suharto down.

"Senator Kerry and I spent some time, at the Navy's behest, in a certain Southeast Asian country," Mr. McCain noted.

Anthony Heald, Arwen Anderson, and El Beh in a scene from Shakespeare's King Lear (Photo by: Kevin Berne).

Arab and Muslim mujahedeen fighters flocked to the cause — financed by Saudi Arabia at America's behest — and in the process shifted Pakistan and Afghanistan in much more Islamist directions.

Matthew Taylor, who is conducting the inquiry at May's behest, wrote in the Guardian this month that one in five British workers are in involved in what he called "non-standard working arrangements". .

But at England's behest, and in the absence of a suitable replacement among those who started the match, the BCCI decided common sense should prevail.

These were acquired during the darkest days of the banking crash at the government's urgent request.That prompted sniping during JPMorgan's earnings call about whether it should have done anything at the government's behest, even in a panic, without having been protected from being prosecuted as a result.