Sentence examples for behest against from inspiring English sources

He has made plenty of Championship runs this summer and occupied the crease doggedly this weekend in his guest appearance for Sussex, made at the selectors' behest, against Australia.

But Don Shaw, a TV producer and friend of the family who spoke out at their behest against the book in 2007, said they would not be taking up the offer.

The law sanctioned some of these steps; other acts appear simply to be at the behest of the powerful against the weak.

Against the behest of some confidants to take the opportunities, I turned them all down.

Instead, it can only, at the party leader's behest, investigate new sleaze allegations against party members.

Heavy dollar-buying by the country's big state banks, presumably at the PBOC's behest, pushed the yuan down against the dollar, allowing the central bank to set a Wednesday-morning parity of 6.81 (see chart 1).The last time the central bank let the currency crawl, it clambered up by 21% against the dollar over three years.

Mr. Hussein argued that the Dujail victims had plotted against him at the behest of Iran, which Iraq was at war with at the time.

He said that Council leaders had turned against him at the behest of the Queens Democratic Party, which tried to knock him off the ballot in November, and failing that, fielded a candidate to run against him.

His lawyers argued that the court must rule on two other charges filed against him at the behest of American prosecutors who feared a defeat on the conspiracy charge.

He has been in detention since being overthrown by Pakistan's army chief, General Pervez Musharraf, in a bloodless coup on October 12. "This case has been framed against me at the behest of General Pervez Musharraf," Mr Sharif said.

That off-the-cuff speech came after an AT&T deal fell through last second, seemingly at the behest of the same lawmakers warning against purchasing the company's hardware.