Sentence examples for behalf when he was from inspiring English sources

He became friendly with Shostakovich, who wrote to Stalin on his behalf when he was arrested during the Soviet Union's anti-Semitic persecutions in the early 1950s.

And Mrs. Lincoln, 49, said she considered Mr. Halter a "good friend" as she testified on his behalf when he was nominated for a job in the Clinton administration.

In 2008, he began a worldwide media blitz accusing a group of Russian officials of hijacking a $230 million tax refund — the case Mr. Magnitsky was investigating on Mr. Browder's behalf when he was arrested and put in prison.

Tulloch is keen to emphasise that his attitude towards the media is "in general, very positive", pointing to the campaign waged on his behalf when he was fighting to remain in the UK.

Tony Carbonetti, Mr. Giuliani's chief political adviser, said in a statement that: "Mayor Giuliani has the utmost respect for Mitt Romney and was happy to campaign on his behalf when he was asked.

Mr. Johnson, who lobbied the Mississippi Legislature on Mr. Scruggs's behalf when he was gearing up for the tobacco fight, recalls that his first introduction to Mr. Scruggs came through Mr. Blake in the early 1990s.

PEN International, which campaigned on behalf of Rushdie when he was in hiding during the fatwa years, has lobbied consistently for him to be honoured.

Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of former MP for Eastleigh Chris Huhne, has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice, after accepting licence points on behalf of Huhne, when he was caught by a speeding camera in 2003.

The unveiling was an effort to refocus attention on one of his central campaign themes, promoting job growth, after a week in which Mr. Lhota, the Republican nominee for mayor, sparred with his Democratic rival, Bill de Blasio, over less obvious topics, like Mr. de Blasio's activism on behalf of Nicaragua when he was a young man.

The jury's in and Vicky Pryce the ex-wife of former MP for Eastleigh Chris Huhne has been found guilty of peverting the course of justice, after accepting licence points on behalf of Huhne, when he was caught by a speeding camera in 2003.

Thousands of people have been incarcerated in the months after the coup without formal indictments, including hundreds of judges, and just last week the authorities arrested a group of human rights defenders including the two top officials of Amnesty International in Turkey, an organisation that once campaigned on behalf of Erdoğan when he was a prisoner of conscience before he came to power.