A person's hukou was immutable unless he was moved at the government's behest, typically through job assignments that did not always allow spouses and children to come along.
The speech from Mr. Clinton concluded an evening that began on a discordant note when party leaders, at the behest of Mr. Obama, pushed through a vote to change language in their platform to affirm Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The New York Times reported last year that the witness, Angel Guillermo Heredia, of Mexico and Laredo, Tex., an athlete and nutritionist, testified before the Balco grand jury that he provided steroids, human growth hormone and the performance-enhancing drug EPO at Graham's behest from about 1996 through 2000.
According to Love, this has been recently exacerbated by shaky legislation put through by Congress at the behest of the music industry.
Opponents of the overturned law accused Mr. Vallone of pushing it through at the behest of major campaign donors from the real estate industry.
Similar language was reaffirmed in resolutions passed in 2011 and 2012, and again in a high-profile resolution voted through at the behest of the Obama administration during this year's General Assembly in September.
ONCE again a fragile Greek government has pushed delayed reforms through parliament at the behest of the European Union and the IMF even as angry protesters in the square outside demand its resignation.
It is good to see the effort led by Mr. Specter, who as chairman of the committee before the 2006 election shepherded the military tribunal law through Congress at the behest of the White House.
The rule appears destined to be undermined by scores of loopholes thanks to aggressive Wall Street lobbying at regulatory agencies, but was once considered a crowning achievement of the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill, pushed through at Obama's behest.
For years they jumped through hoops at Brussels's behest.
