Sentence examples for behest called for from inspiring English sources

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The other, also removed at the Americans' behest, called for Internet companies like Google and Facebook to pay telecommunications networks for delivering material to users.

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The conference, called for by and held at the behest of Ahmadinejad, was widely described as a "Holocaust denial conference" or a "meeting of Holocaust deniers", though Iran denied it was a Holocaust denial conference.

A blue-ribbon panel of educators and business leaders spent nine months studying higher education in Pennsylvania at the behest of Gov. Tom Corbett, making public on Wednesday its recommendations that called for more accessible and affordable post-secondary education and a state funding formula that rewards schools for meeting those goals.

Street protests against the abuses of prisoners were much smaller than those held at the behest of Shia clerics calling for direct elections.Why the insouciance?

But at the behest of unions, the platform also calls for negotiating labor and environmental standards into all trade accords.

Democratic Congressional aides say the House, at the behest of the White House, is likely to call for reconciliation procedures in its coming budget resolution.

At Ms. Schlafly's behest, for example, the party approved an immigration plank calling for new laws to speed widespread deportations and other punitive measures at odds with Mr. McCain's stance on one of his signature issues.

Whilst the fourth carbon budget is currently under review at the behest of the Chancellor, it is unlikely that the Committee will call for significant changes of course.

Dressing up in revolutionary war costumes, calling for the overthrow of the government and waving teabags at the behest of wealthy right wing funders is, while a little pathetic and strange, well within the realm of constitutionally protected behavior and may even play a somewhat constructive role in our democracy.

"Television, I mean CNN, CNN en Español, is a broadcaster that works at the behest of destabilization, that calls openly for a coup d'etat in Venezuela," Maduro said in a speech carried by state television, according to Colombia's Radio Caracol.

His announcement came at the behest of the plaintiffs, a group called the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

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