Jay had been to the penitentiary six times in his life mostly for drugs—and agreed to help me out at the behest of local law enforcement to avoid going back in again for a violent altercation he'd had with another scrapper over who would haul in a load.
The stunning series of events culminated a weekend of frantic around-the-clock negotiations, as Wall Street bankers huddled in meetings at the behest of Bush administration officials to try to avoid a downward spiral in the markets stemming from a crisis of confidence.
In addition to claiming that Means investigated Harding's marital infidelities at his wife's behest, the book also suggests that she poisoned him to avoid a scandal.
Mr. Erdogan's bellicose tone came as ambassadors from the Atlantic alliance, seeking to avoid a wider conflict, held emergency talks in Brussels at Turkey's behest.
However, Jerusalem-based correspondents say that some government ministers privately believe that the restrictions were an error, imposed at the behest of an intelligence service who were wrong-footed by the disclosures in the first place and are anxious to avoid further embarrassment.
For more than twenty years, he had dutifully neutered his novels at the behest of editors like the Reverend Dr. Donald Macleod, who published "The Trumpet-Major" in Good Words, but only after warning Hardy to avoid "anything — direct or indirect — which a healthy Parson like myself would not care to read to his bairns at the fireside".
For more than twenty years, he had dutifully neutered his novels at the behest of editors like the Reverend Dr. Donald Macleod, who published "The Trumpet-Major" in Good Words, but only after warning Hardy to avoid "anything direct or indirect which a healthy Parson like myself would not care to read to his bairns at the fireside".
While the Internet has been a boon to travelers who engage in do-it-yourself booking -- often at the behest of travel companies, which save money as a result -- the self-service nature of the Web leaves consumers vulnerable to getting into situations they might have chosen to avoid if they had known better.
A review of the economics of climate change by Nicholas Stern, a professor at London School of Economics, which was written at the behest of the British government in 2006, asserted that emissions should be priced initially at about $75 a ton to encourage investments in alternative energy sources and reduce the use of fossil fuels enough to avoid drastic climate change.
Today, a steady stream of her famous friends called The New York Times at her behest to offer testimonials.
