Sentence examples for crisis on behalf from inspiring English sources

The moral of the story, then, is to beware of ideologues who are trying to hijack the European crisis on behalf of their agendas.

But that's not all: there was also clearly a lot of bad faith involved, as the scolds tried to exploit an economic (not fiscal) crisis on behalf of a political agenda that had nothing to do with deficits.

Fortunately Speaker Hastert, apparently with White House encouragement, has gotten the fire-breathing Republicans to back off what would certainly have been seen as an attempt to exploit the current crisis on behalf of the regressive G.O.P. economic agenda.

But our discourse wouldn't have gone so far off-track if other influential people hadn't been eager to change the subject away from jobs, even in the face of 9 percent unemployment, and to hijack the crisis on behalf of their pre-existing agendas.

The DEC – which appeals in times of crisis on behalf of 13 leading aid charities including the British Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children – has never before in its 50-year history asked for help in a single disease epidemic.

There on the tarmac were the two dominant Democrats of the 1990s, Mr. Gore and Mr. Clinton, who had played a critical role negotiating the end of an international crisis on behalf of President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state and Mr. Obama's rival for the nomination in 2008.

(In 2005, long before the crisis, I called, on behalf of the ECB's governing council, for appropriate surveillance of a number of national indicators, including unit labour costs).

Mr. Asada, a 70-year-old resident of Fukushima prefecture, the epicenter of Japan's nuclear crisis, will speak on behalf of 402 shareholders on Tuesday at the annual general meeting of the utility known as Tepco, to ask it to stop atomic generation.

(The donations to Protect Our Winters, as well as those to the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network and the Gay Men's Health Crisis, were made on behalf of Celebrity Apprentice contestants, according to spokespeople for the respective charities).

During his term as president, Zuma was involved in continental affairs, taking a role in mediation efforts to resolve crises in Africa on behalf of the Southern African Development Community or African Union, including those in Zimbabwe, Libya, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Halifax sent a note to Germany warning that if France intervened in the crisis on Czechoslovakia's behalf, Britain might support France.