Sentence examples for behalf going from inspiring English sources

"During the 1972 campaign he volunteered for anything we wanted him to do, making speeches on my behalf, going everywhere".

Yet the extent of the devotion to the system, and the level of suffering governments were willing to impose on citizens on its behalf, goes well beyond the loyalty normally commanded by economic policy norms.

He beefed it up a bit with a tweet later describing the story as "nonsense" and a spokesman on his behalf went so far as to call it "categorically untrue".

MS. HUBLEY We were in a record store not that long ago with friends who on our behalf went and checked our bin and were very excited that our name was spelled wrong: Yo La Tango.

All of this extra work on the RIAA's behalf is going to cost a pretty penny.

On his behalf we went back to EE.

A. It was very painful for the faculty at the center, and I speak now on their behalf, to go through this because it questions the credibility of the entire center's science.

In 1962, he reported to King that following King's arrest in Albany "a group of ninety Africans in a remote valley far up in the Inyanga Mountains knelt in prayer in your behalf". He went on to ask, "Have you ever considered the power of world-wide prayer at the same moment praying for the same thing???" (Hughes, December 1962).

"I did not testify, I wrote a report on his behalf to go to criminal court," LaViolette replied.

The Texas machinist who visited his sister's killer, Karla Faye Tucker, in prison, spoke out on her behalf and went to her execution as a friend.

Whether friends told lies on your behalf or went to strip clubs with you, they helped you break a marital vow.