Sentence examples for behest of something from inspiring English sources

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(These marathons used to happen at Paula Cooper Gallery in the seventies through the nineties, at the behest of Something Else Press, John Cage, and a host of Fluxus types).

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They wanted to know who "had sent us to Loliondo" and were not satisfied by the explanation that we had arrived on our own volition and not at the behest of someone with something to gain in the dispute.

At Carole's behest, Burt becomes something of a father figure to Finn, taking him to ball games, though this development does not sit well with Kurt, who works to win his father's attention back from Finn by emulating his father's dress and interests before Burt realizes how hurt Kurt is.

He recently offered wine recommendations to would-be zombies who want to wash their down their brains with something besides blood, at the behest of the Miami News Times.

It is at this point that many people begin to realize just how little control they have over sleep; they discover that sleep is not something that conforms readily to the behest of their will.

It said it had no legal authority to close or suspend a curfew order, something it said could only be done at the behest of a prison or the courts.

That was not just a case of hyping intelligence, but of asserting something that had already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

In recent seasons it's whittled away any of the moral complexity it once feigned, turning itself into something like the West Wing with an even duller opening sequence – presumably at the behest of the machines.

At the behest of then-Gov.

"Clearly, I work at the behest of the players.

She came here at the behest of the James Joyce Society.

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