Sentence examples for behalf of a large from inspiring English sources

The government will forego on behalf of a large investment of Wernher von Brauns.

But the sums sought in these cases are small change compared with the colossal amounts sometimes claimed in "class-action suits"—cases brought on behalf of a large group of plaintiffs whose numbers have grown tenfold in the past decade.

"I think it's the dumbest idea I've ever heard," said Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, speaking on behalf of a large number of Republicans who regard the idea of shutting down the government with horror and who are never going to be mentioned in a Quinnipiac presidential poll.

The existence and sharing of customer lists was not mentioned in an expanded complaint filed late Wednesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan on behalf of a large group of buyers and sellers who are suing Sotheby's and Christie's contending that collusive practices going back to at least 1993 cheated customers of untold sums.

Someone working on behalf of a LARGE pool of capital recently asked me what actions would help it produce strong returns with diverse venture capital investors and diverse entrepreneurs.

According to well connected student politicos at ASU, this is not a concerted effort, but rather independent activity on behalf of a large number of like-minded individuals.

A New Orleans judge ruled last year that the lawsuit couldn't proceed as a class action (where a few people sue on behalf of a larger group they claim to represent) unless the plaintiffs could first show that the company's alleged misstatements had inflated the company's stock price.

Public or representative standing is standing possessed by an applicant who brings a case on behalf of a larger group of people, or even in the interest of the general public.

The societal benefits to airing the problem is equally real — sometimes for the people on whom the story is based (see how the survivors of abuse have used "Spotlight" as a vehicle for spontaneous group therapy, as my colleague Amy Kaufman wrote last week), sometimes on behalf of a larger good.

In another instance, he intervened on behalf of BellSouth Corporation, a large regional telephone company, on a series of complex telecommunications rules with the F.C.C. BellSouth and its employees have given $22,000 to his campaign, and a BellSouth executive has been a fund-raiser for Mr. McCain.

He showed us what is possible when a person realizes that he does make a difference and then takes action on behalf of as large a group as possible.