Sentence examples for behest to help from inspiring English sources

Fastow alleged that the questionable financial instruments he'd helped create, such as LJMs and the carnivorously-monikered Raptors, were pumped up at Skilling's behest to help hide ballooning Enron debt from investors and Wall Street analysts.

Although she and her husband spent several years in the U.S. and Europe in the 1940s, she returned to China after the founding of the People's Republic, at Zhou Enlai's behest, to help rebuild the film industry.

A holdover from the Korean conflict of half a century ago, the troops, maintained at a cost to American taxpayers of $3 billion a year, are here at the behest of South Korea to help defend it against the North.

American intelligence has concluded that hackers working at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin to help get Trump elected provided the damaging leaks against the Democrats.

At Randolph's behest, he went to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 to help local leaders organize a large-scale bus boycott.

Ross first said he added the citizenship question at the behest of the Justice Department, which said it was needed to help enforce voting rights.

Unlikely, when recently, at the behest of the whips, MPs rejected explanatory statements designed to help them know what they were voting for.

The spokesman for the Pakistani military, Gen. Athar Abbas, said Pakistan would be "conveying very clearly" its displeasure with India's offer to help train the Afghan Army at the behest of American and NATO forces.

The newspaper, a staunch opponent of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, also reported that General Pollari had acted at the behest of Mr. Berlusconi, who was said to be eager to help President Bush in the search for weapons in Iraq.

The Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Leslie O'Brien, at the behest of the Government is trying to raise $72‐million in private funds to help Rolls‐ Royce out of trouble.

A Salt Lake City businessman testified yesterday that he hired the son of an International Olympic Committee member at the behest of the finance director of the city's Olympic bid committee to help it become the host of the 2002 Winter Games.