Sentence examples for behest for from inspiring English sources

I was given a prescription for 60 20 milligram pills at my behest for $250.

At his behest, for example, the Philadelphia Inquirer waged a savage campaign against a Democratic candidate for governor who had criticised a railway merger.

Or maybe it was the fact that he'd spent the morning spanking Keira Knightley at her behest (for a scene in the film, obviously).

Homicide charges against four suspected progovernment gunmen who fired from the bridge, including a city councilman, have been dropped at the court's behest for lack of evidence.

In the nineties, his counsel, Richard Neaton, had his law license suspended twice, once at Soering's behest, for infractions ranging from forgery to incompetence; in 2001, the license was revoked.

In part at their behest, for a while much of the funding for health in Kenya has been spent on preventing malaria and HIV rather than improving access to contraception.

The experiments were conducted for two series of 100 mm long columns, 2.1, 3.0, and 4.6 mm in diameter, packed with 2.5 μm fully porous particles of Bridge Ethylene Hybrid (BEH) for one series and Charged Surface Hybrid (CSH) for the other.

The Pointer Sisters' Jump was covered at the behest of Richard Curtis, for the soundtrack of Love, Actually.

He said it was introduced in February and that the L.I.D.C. stipulation was inserted in June at the behest of advocates for low-cost housing.

He did not address the Florida case directly other than to say that the so-called Stand Your Ground statute "is not a good law" and that tighter gun control laws would ultimately come about only at the behest of voters, for example, by organizing a referendum vote.

Because language that makes fast-forwarding through commercials illegalno doubt inserted at the behest of lobbyists for the advertising industrywas inserted into a bill that would allow people to fast forward past objectionable sections of a recorded movie (and I bet you already thought that was OK).