Sentence examples for in its behalf from inspiring English sources

This newspaper, for example, is asking the development corporation to do the same in its behalf so it can build a new headquarters on Eighth Avenue.

Tortured speculation like this is a conclusion looking for arguments in its behalf.

In spite of his efforts in its behalf, when he returned to Paris in the midst of the Terror the government imprisoned him, although he was later released.

When the program was approved for statewide use through the extension service of Cornell, she wrote and spoke in its behalf, helped train teachers, and prepared classroom materials; from 1897 she taught nature study at Cornell.

The Free Democrats, whose votes give Dr. Adenauer's Christian Democrats a Parliamentary majority, joined the opposition Social Democrats in demanding that the government refrain from asking the Allies to perform such activities in its behalf.

A visitor always gathers from the British that the theatre is in a wretched state, or when they do say anything favorable in its behalf, they are liable to say, "You might have a look at this Children in Uniform", it's not half-bad".

She loathes the complacent idleness whereby contemporary Americans dismiss Puritanism and turn John Calvin, its great proponent, into an obscure, moralizing bigot: "We are forever drawing up indictments against the past, then refusing to let it testify in its own behalf — it is so very guilty, after all.

William F. Boyland Jr., a Brooklyn assemblyman accused of taking bribes from a health care organization in return for carrying out official acts in Albany on its behalf, declined to take the stand in his defense on Friday, and his lawyers called only two witnesses before resting their case.

The Torricelli campaign did report $720,000 in spending on its behalf by party organizations in 1996, according to Sharon Snyder, a spokeswoman for the Federal Election Commission.

"Further, the Trump Foundation must notify any third parties engaged in solicitation or fundraising activities in New York on its behalf to immediately case any such activities," Sheehan added.

So far, Assemblywoman Gloria Davis of the Bronx has admitted in a Manhattan court to accepting free transportation from the company in the late 1990's in return for her influence on its behalf in the Legislature.