Courts can delay projects for years at the behest of angry environmentalists or disappointed bidders.
In the form of repeated extension of the copyright term at the behest of corporations who hold copyrights, and to the detriment of the public domain.
Since the Democratic Reform, religion-related cultural relics and historical sites, monasteries and temples have been well preserved at the behest of both the clerical and secular masses.
When a multinational places an order at the behest of a buyer the workers are set quotas to meet the order.
But a report a few months ago indicated that Google may have decided not to include multi-touch support in Android at the behest of Apple.
Many of GM's toughest restructuring measures, including the ousting of former Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and the bankruptcy filing itself, came at the behest of the auto task force.
For example, France is showing a propensity towards open source: they moved all of their servers in their local education authorities to Linux at the behest of the Ministry of education.
Crucially, we work with local scientists and at the behest of local organizations.
NATO is in the country under a UN mandate, operating in defence and at the behest of an elected government.
This insists on civilian control of the army, a condition the army suspects was inserted at the behest of the Zardari government.
In the corner sits a huge piece of paper on which Rachelle, perhaps at the behest of a psychiatrist, has drawn a flow chart mapping her "life goals".
This was reputedly at the behest of an Englishman running an ironworks at Invergarry who felt his kilted employees needed a greater freedom of movement to do their work.
Much of the recovery is thanks to swingeing spending cuts and tax hikes, often imposed at the behest of outsiders such as the IMF, and sometimes with scant regard for legality or democratic niceties.
There was a plastic pointer that was supposed to move across the board at the behest of the spirits.
Moreover, while all this is happening, immigrants are allegedly streaming into the us, partly at the behest of big business, to keep the Labour market weak.
Polish prosecutors are sticklers too: they briefly arrested Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen leader who has political asylum in Britain, at the behest of the Russian authorities.
Torreon's public schools provide remedial teaching for fewer than half of the 11,000 children whom the CDC determined were poisoned when it tested in 2001 at the behest of Mexico's government.
But his arrest at the behest of Serbia will damage its relations with Bosnia.
The need for Linux talent is so acute we created a Linux training program, at the behest of our Technical Advisory Board.
Apart from his role as co-chair of the foundation and his side-gig at Microsoft, he also joined the board of Berkshire Hathaway (BKRA) at the behest of buddy Warren Buffett.
I called the office at the behest of my secretary.
Their servile lives were spent in grovelling and cringing and toiling and running about like little dogs at the behest of their numerous masters.
But it was a tumultuous time for Jobs, since he was on the verge of being ejected from Apple for a variety of reasons, all at the behest of then CEO John Sculley.
The tapestry, a tribute to the union of church, state and party, was woven by a church congregation at the behest of their priest.
, police Chief Charles Moose made reference to a "duck in a noose," a cryptic comment made, according to Moose, at the behest of the person presumed to be the Washington-area sniper.
As the referee at the behest of the players hands after a previous tightly to the rope at the foot of hate deeply nail into the ground eyes rolled round face turned red hard to pull back.
They are vulnerable to high Arab politics: al-Jazeera has recently been muting its criticism of Saudi Arabia, probably at the behest of the Qatari royal family.
These caps were designed in part to promote economic growth by allowing state-owned Banks to make cheap loans to local enterprises, often at the behest of the government.
Capello will be undermined entirely if he reassigns the armband at the behest of disgruntled members of the Football Association board.
Only recently, at the behest of distant authorities in Washington, DC, has this sense of propinquity seemed to weaken.
