Sentence examples for personal behest from inspiring English sources

At school I had Latin for years —Ovid is such a famed poet and extraordinary character who was exiled on Emperor Augustus's personal behest.

Last week, a British public inquiry concluded that ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was likely to have been murdered at the personal behest of Putin.

A week ago Twitter was banned at the personal behest of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and remains so days after a court order annulled the block.

Some, like the perennially crocked Yildiray Bastürk, came at Veh's personal behest, others (Ciprian Marica, Ewerthon, Raphael Schäfer) were bought by Heldt.

Citi has committed $100 billion to the facilitation of clean energy by 2025, and Berkshire Hathaway is investing $15 billion into solar and wind projects at Warren Buffet's personal behest.

Later governors (including Nanfan and Cornbury) were arrested on charges of malfeasance and personal indebtedness at the behest of their political opponents.

"A European friend of mine, a big boss, said to me recently after all the events of the past year … 'Do you love somebody?'" Putin told a young journalist who asked about his personal life at the behest, she said, of her aunt's friends.

Now Alicia Mazur Berg, commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development, at the behest of and with the personal involvement of Mayor Daley, has taken on Block 37.

Let the president take personal responsibility for the torturing done at his behest.

Dear Gene, I was just reading your most recent Washington Post column: an open letter to a j-school student who wrote to you, at her professor's behest, asking how you built your "personal brand" in journalism.

- At the beginning of World War II the American automobile industry, at the government's behest, stopped production of virtually all personal automobiles, retooled, and became the core of the "Arsenal of Democracy" during the Second World War.