Sentence examples for behest it was from inspiring English sources

It was energetically obscene - even though, at the publisher's behest, it was full of "fugs" and "fugging" - and that was what made its heroes heroic, Mailer argued.

With the first three central to the Bridgegate investigation and Mayor Zimmer alleging that the lieutenant governor threatened to withhold funding for her city at the governor's behest, it is imperative that any credible probe be complete and have as much information as possible.

But Facebook and Trendrr promoted the study, which was done at Facebook's behest, since it was the first time that the big daddy of social media had shared detailed data about the TV-related conversation occurring on its platform.

Questions have been asked -- but not adequately answered -- about whether money was paid to the Trump Foundation at Mr. Trump's behest and whether it was reported on his federal income tax returns.

Introduced by a Democrat at the behest of unions, it was backed by then Senator Barack Obama and several Republicans who voted for it because they knew it would make the compromise unworkable.

And then we have immense amounts of inventory at our behest, whether it's mobile inventory, on Display or Search or desktop inventory or even inventory to our network.

Throughout these years the moral and religious didacticism of the emperors was reaching a fevered pitch; now, at the behest of an oracle, it was to hit its peak.

(The original title of the piece was "-p = dH/dq". Probably at the behest of a press agent, it was later renamed "The Watteau Duets").

It was at his behest that Mr. Bush installed Gov. James S. Gilmore III of Virginia as the party chairman.

It was at the behest of that intermediary that they appointed Mr. Devillers to become the first manager of Résidences Fontaine St. Georges, the Bergmans said.

She spoke to E! about how Beh won her over -- and it was pretty simple.