At the behest of his friend, the son goes to the neighbouring town to earn enough money to grease the palm of the panchayat president. |
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His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone. |
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The enamoured look in her soft, brown eyes lessened the harshness of her behest. |
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To say what was done was done at the behest of officials is totally incorrect. |
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The early European navigators and explorers mostly undertook their voyages at the behest of kings in search of wealth. |
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In fact, the troupe first staged the play in Delhi at the behest of the French Embassy on the occasion of Hugo's bicentenary celebrations. |
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The items were sold at the behest of his descendants and fetched much more than the auctioneers had bargained for. |
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It comes not at the behest of some charismatic national leader or the bidding of some strident national organization. |
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Grant does so reluctantly, at the urgent behest of his aunt, Jefferson's godmother, and a local preacher. |
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A few weeks ago we sent out an all-points bulletin at the behest of a curious reader, surprisingly without success. |
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He was merely rebalancing his portfolio, at the behest of his financial adviser. |
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At the behest of their US puppet-masters, the newly elected Iraqi government had Al Jazeera temporarily thrown out of the country. |
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But Virginie is sent to Paris at the behest of a rich maiden aunt who desires to educate her to receive her fortune. |
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This is done usually at the behest of central bankers who are still somewhat perplexingly attached to strong currencies at all costs. |
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If there is not a successful breakthrough, we're there at the Government's behest and if they decide to stand us down, then we will be stood down. |
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Within months she was a heroin addict, pregnant with their first child, and at his behest prostituting herself in Las Vegas to alcoholic gamblers to support both their habits. |
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Richard, stung by the Commons' effrontery, retorted that he would not remove one scullion from his kitchen at their behest. |
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The Battle of Anghiari was covered or destroyed at the behest of the Medici. |
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I am sure the member is aware that the occupants of any home on reserve are at the behest and discretion of the chief and council. |
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Processes were put in place some time ago at the behest of the local manager. |
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The investigation has established that many of the reported activities did occur, and that these were invariably initiated at my behest. |
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For we serve at their behest, and must be responsive to their needs and wishes. |
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At the behest of the Presidency of the Council, an informal three-way discussion was established to seek a compromise. |
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Many of the international organizations became involved at the behest of the governments preparing the sessions. |
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Even if people switch their votes from party to party, election by election it does not follow that they do so at the behest of their daily paper. |
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At present, thousands of businessmen are in pretrial detention in Russia on false charges and at the behest of their competitors. |
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In his characteristic cacology he described his vision in the inner sanctum of the Kali temple, where he had gone at the behest of his nephew Hriday, to pray for some magical powers from the Goddess. |
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Jackson declined to comment on the case, saying it was at the behest of his lawyer. |
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I explained I was in the country at the behest of the Department of State, as a kind of cultural ambassador. |
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The following day, Magnitsky was arrested at the behest of Lt. Col. Kuznetsov. |
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Many black men were gathered at the behest of Louis Farrakhan, the clown prince of despotism. |
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Her son John Balliol, who became King of Scotland at the behest of King Edward I had his regalia stripped from him by Edward when he didn't toe the line. |
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A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of Boston at his behest. |
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The meeting took place at the behest of the councillors in the wake of a spate of untoward and vandalistic incidents which have taken place in the town in recent months. |
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As Zuley's interrogation of Slahi was underway, Miller, the Army two-star general in charge of the Guantánamo detention center, traveled to Iraq at the behest of the Pentagon. |
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Everything that is now being done to the Guardian has already been done to the tabloid press, a hundred times over, and often at the behest of the Guardian. |
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It was uncivil of Britain to have arrested its frail guest in his London hospital room at the behest of a Spanish judge, but doing so was within the rules of international law. |
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Though there is a growing clamor for the establishment of a Special Court on War Crimes, this can only come about at the behest of the TRC, upon conclusion of its work. |
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When his work was interrupted by the war, at the behest of Fritz Haber he turned his attention to developing a gasmask. |
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Within the Government an interdepartmental committee was established at the behest of the Chief Federal Negotiator for Labrador Innu Files to try to bring some coordination at the federal level. |
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The maestro Marchionni created, at the behest of the publishing house, twenty colour plates outside the texts and four illuminated initial letters for the 2002 edition of the Vangeli. |
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If it does, expect another stentorian statement. The DFS was created from the merger of two existing state regulators in 2011, at the behest of Andrew Cuomo, New York's governor. |
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This Convention, however, remained poorly implemented and on the behest of the Permanent Secretary of the CSRP, a work programme was developed to revive it. |
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Even as these original basic technologies became increasingly more sophisticated and complex, they were used at the will and behest of individual human beings and humans in groups. |
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The Wrong Gallery will once again bring their three-ring schtick to London at the behest of the fair's organizers. |
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The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made. |
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Many fled abroad, including the influential Tyndale, who was eventually executed and his body burned at Henry's behest. |
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At the duke's behest, in January 1760 Brindley also travelled to London to give evidence before a parliamentary committee. |
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The Lady of the Lake sends Lancelot to King Arthur's court where he becomes a knight at the behest of Sir Gawain. |
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Similarly, Gilbert had written several plays at the behest of comic actor Ned Sothern. |
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Only a few texts survive, predominantly in baptismal vows the Saxons were required to perform at the behest of Charlemagne. |
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Many societies distribute largess at the behest of some individual or some larger group of people. |
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Only a few texts survive, predominantly baptismal vows the Saxons were required to perform at the behest of Charlemagne. |
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These positions can be created without primary legislation, nowadays at the behest of the Prime Minister. |
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Prometheus, in later versions of Greek mythology, was the Titan who created mankind at the behest of Zeus. |
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In 1859, he conducted the first of three trips to the continent at the behest of parliament to study European educational practices. |
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Another was compiled about fifty years later by John of Salisbury at the behest of Thomas Becket. |
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After completing medical studies at the behest of his father, who was a doctor, Berlioz rebelliously pursued music and literature, for which he had harboured passions since childhood. |
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On 20 January, the Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, publicly stated that it should not be assumed that the ex-militia infiltrators were acting at the behest of the Indonesian army. |
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The Committee emphasizes that the State's obligation to prevent torture also applies to all persons who act, de jure or de facto, in the name of, in conjunction with, or at the behest of the State party. |
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But the analysis done by Atlanta-based SecureWorks, an Internet security firm, was not able to determine if the hackers were operating independently or at the behest of the Vietnamese government or Communist Party. |
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Now that the Member States have recognised, at the behest of the European Parliament, that the declarations they are being asked to provide are necessary, we can look forward to a very successful Court of Auditors. |
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Dates from the early eighteenth century at the behest of Philip Ghisillieri, the structure is composed of a patronal villa with oratory, a village with traditional print shop and pottery factory. |
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In both places, remilitarization came at the behest of the United States, though both countries acquiesced. |
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The ERA differs from other European agencies in that its seat was established in two different cities, Lille and Valenciennes, at the behest of the French government. |
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And young Mr. Fleetwood Vibe was here at the behest of his father, Wall Street eminence Scarsdale Vibe, who was effectively bankrolling the Expedition. |
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On a March weekend in 1978, about 100 people gathered at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco at the behest of then-Advocate publisher David Goodstein. |
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The railway was started in 1900 at the behest of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was built largely by the Turks, with German advice and support. |
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Working on the suggestion, Anthony Salvin refurbished the tower and led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of Prince Albert. |
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It is a collection that purportedly recorded the laws and customs current in the time of Edward the Confessor at the behest of his successor William the Conqueror. |
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One of the kings of this polity visited England around 1638 at the behest of the Providence Island Company, and sealed an alliance with Great Britain. |
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The service was withdrawn at the behest of the Strategic Rail Authority in 2003, and there remains no link from Yorkshire or the East Midlands to Glasgow over the line. |
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