Sentence examples for gesture on behalf of from inspiring English sources

It might be a gesture on behalf of this house, but it would take the process no further".

Sober-minded on most subscription nights, he has established a pattern of ending each season with a risky and flamboyant gesture on behalf of twentieth-century music.

JOSEPH DORINSON Brooklyn, Aug. 6, 2013 To the Editor: Frank Bruni's call for a symbolic gesture on behalf of L.G.B.T. rights at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 is brilliant.

His one new production last fall, of Bernstein's "A Quiet Place," was an ardent gesture on behalf of a flawed work — the kind of effort that might have been saved for a time when the company was on surer footing.

Responding for the government, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said it was a "very dignified and respectful gesture on behalf of Parliament".

Bescansa's party, Podemos, said the MP was trying to make "a symbolic gesture on behalf of all women who try to strike a balance between work and family and today are unable to do so".

The Mariinsky remains the center of Gergiev's existence, and his gestures on behalf of Putin may be less a statement of ideological solidarity than an expression of gratitude for the leader's financial largesse.

But the most cardboard character in this sense is de Neuville, who begins genuinely tormented over Frenchmen's dilemma -- whether to make futile gestures on behalf of the Free French or to be practical and support the puppet Vichy government -- and ends up a mustache-twirling villain.

Obama's early gestures on behalf of bipartisanship were rebuffed with defiant opposition.

President Barack Obama should press Arab leaders for "dramatic gestures" on behalf of Middle East peace, an overwhelming majority of US senators said in a letter made public on Monday.

With splendid gesture Alfred Stieglitz refused on behalf of his band-Marin, Dove, O'Keefe and others.