Sentence examples for efforts in behalf of from inspiring English sources

Between 1870 and 1890 Bismarck earned the respect of European leaders for his earnest efforts in behalf of peace.

"I was just disappointed that you were not more appreciative of my efforts in behalf of sound government and against the things you complained of".

Perhaps the most jarring of all the discoveries he made during this unhappy period, Eriksson told me, was that his fellow-G.I.s took a dim view of his efforts in behalf of Mao.

[now in France] died Sept. 4, 1965, Lambaréné, Gabon) Alsatian-German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor in equatorial Africa, who received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts in behalf of "the Brotherhood of Nations".

With the beginning of the New Year, let us renew our efforts in behalf of the suffering soldiers, and do all that we can for their comfort.

As a physician, he was described as "humane, never withholding his services from the poorest and humblest, and his unremitting and unrewarded efforts in behalf of the suffering [would] give him rank in a profession eminently benevolent".

The marketing effort in behalf of "October Road" is a patchwork.

To the state commission, this amounted to a lobbying effort in behalf of a bill in the Legislature to expand free-speech rights in shopping malls.

In April 1952, citing the president's work, the American Civil Liberties Union presented the college with an award -- also on view at the exhibition -- for "a powerful effort in behalf of academic freedom".

There are something like four million items in the Picture Section, & at one time or another almost every one of them has been borrowed in behalf of the war effort.

"Senator Clinton is a very forward-looking person and has several times enlisted former Senator D'Amato in efforts on behalf of New York," Ms. Dunn said.