Sentence examples for measure on behalf of from inspiring English sources

Princeton's Paul Starr, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history "The Social Transformation of American Medicine," calls it "the single biggest measure on behalf of low-income Americans in more than forty years".

Mr. Armey was also working on his measure on behalf of the Republicans and very late this evening completed a proposal that would ban all soft money with no exceptions and stop an array of outside interest groups from spending money on get-out-the-vote drives.

Central state Republicans like members of the Red State Renewable Alliance supported the measure on behalf of rural constituencies for whom wind development is an economic Godsend.

Just hours after North Carolina's voter suppression law was signed, Advancement Project filed a lawsuit challenging the measure on behalf of the North Carolina NAACP State Conference.

In arguing for protective measures on behalf of the tiger, one could cite the critical importance of biodiversity and the interdependence of all life.

On Thursday, the conference is to issue a declaration endorsing specific measures on behalf of world peace.

As Perlstein points out, though, taking extreme measures on behalf of liberty and justice was the very spirit of the age.

The last thing the world needs is a weak America that does not take serious measures on behalf of itself or its allies.

Mr. Levitt succeeded in putting a variety of measures on behalf of investors into effect, securities experts say, but he has also concluded in a new memoir, "Take on the Street" (Pantheon, 2002), that he was forced to reach a variety of compromises -- such as on rules governing stock analyst conflicts of interest and auditor conflicts -- that he now regrets.

Now they're asked to extend health benefits to domestic partners, to support transgender individuals, to back ballot measures on behalf of gay marriage and, with the Olympics around the corner, become advocates and allies of groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign, that fight for equal treatment for LGBT people globally.

Administrators said they implemented the new safety measures on behalf of the students' safety — but multiple students at the high school told VICE News they don't feel any safer.