Sentence examples for behest on from inspiring English sources

The bill would roll back a tax imposed in 1993, at President Clinton's behest, on part of the benefits received by one-fifth of Social Security recipients with the highest incomes.

The bill would roll back a tax imposed in 1993, at Mr. Clinton's behest, on part of the benefits received by the one-fifth of Social Security recipients with the highest incomes.

She, in turn, longs to be an asset to him, advising him (at his behest) on his clothing collections, like a mother dressing her son.

At Elston's behest, on his death, the business called Kohr's was further split between the families of his son, Elton Jr., and his daughter, Miriam.

Liberia's diamond exports have shown a sharp, telltale rise, and even the normally sanction-shy European Union has slapped penalties, at Britain's behest, on Liberia.

But Mr Zardari, Pakistan's most powerful civilian president, went too far.At least partly at his behest, on February 25th the Supreme Court disqualified Mr Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, Punjab's chief minister, from holding public office.

In the past, and usually at the behest of on-site companies, the army of geeks relied upon proprietary languages and packages like Java and Photoshop to help set up localized solutions that were quick to implement and easy to use.

And because it cut property tax collections by local government by nearly two-thirds, the state, initially at Mr. Brown's behest, took on more and more costly responsibility for financing schools, welfare and other services that were once the responsibilities of local governments.

Several scientists were on hand — at the behest of Democrats on the subcommittee — to answer questions and clear things up, but many lawmakers weren't interested in answers, only in prejudice.

A March 1995 five-nation toip to South Asia, on behest of the U.S. State Department and without her husband, sought to improve relations with India and Pakistan.

In 835, the celebration of Hallowmas was moved from May to November at the behest of Pope Gregory IV, on the "practical grounds that Rome in summer could not accommodate the great number of pilgrims who flocked to it", and perhaps because of public health considerations regarding Roman Fever, which claimed a number of lives of pilgrims during the sultry summers of the region.