Sentence examples for At its behest from inspiring English sources
At its behest, we supply death certificates to cell-phone companies to induce them to terminate contracts; to airlines to release frequent-flier miles; to Netflix, no kidding, to cancel accounts.
The dispute over an ad is fairly standard — companies often sue one another over advertising claims — but the video contest raises a novel legal question: Quiznos did not make the insulting submissions, so should it be held liable for user-generated content created at its behest?
The strategy is akin to what the Sudanese government, based in Khartoum, did several years ago when it sent notorious janjaweed militias sweeping across the Darfur region, at its behest, to capture land belonging to dispossessed ethnic groups that the government was fighting.
Later, going against the conclusions of the panel convened at its behest, the cancer institute said women in their 40's should have mammograms.
As more aid arrives, however, more gunmen will seek to make a living by stealing it.Although the government is the chief culprit, not all atrocities in Darfur are carried out at its behest.
The military council has developed a habit of meeting separately and privately with different political groups and civil society activists at its behest.
Following years of estrangement between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, whose news channel Al-Jazeera had frequently hosted Saudi dissidents, she visited the kingdom in 2010 at its monarch's behest, touring schools and universities.
One former publisher said he believed that the publishing industry would have to change its practices at the behest of its biggest patron, Ms. Winfrey.
Turkey's recent campaign against its own Islamists, at the behest of its influential generals, may have helped to calm Mr Karimov's nerves.Two questions hover over this latest twist in Turkish strategy.
It was at the behest of its producers (one of them Tom Cruise), who naturally felt concern for the sensitivities of the victims' families as well as a reluctance to attract censorious attention to a thriller that opens with an assassin coolly picking off apparently random targets in a provincial city.
At the behest of its exporters, it continues to artificially depress its exchange rate, which it does by using its export earnings to buy dollars and other foreign currencies.
