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Перевод: behest

[существительное]
повеление; приказание; завет

Тезаурус:

1. The far-sighted politician must do a "thought experiment" and apply the test of war: would the British ever be willing to see British troops fight and die at the behest of the successors of M Jacques Delors, without the British Government giving the final yea or nay?
2. He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session, but he feared the worst.
3. That's how I felt too, being tossed about at the behest of the currents and waves.
4. At the behest of the invading parasite queen, they actually perform the deed of murdering their own mother.
5. Mary was signing away her kingdom, at the behest of Henri II.
6. He confessed to Beaton all that he had done at the behest of the English king, including "the suppression of sundry abbeys and friaries".
7. At the behest of Marcos' family, Vice-president Salvador Laurel, Mrs Aquino's estranged deputy and now head of an opposition party, and a group of "loyalists" will today attempt to reverse an earlier Supreme Court ruling to uphold Mrs Aquino's decision to prohibit Marcos' return.
8. Much later, in 1729, at the behest of the Jesuits, John Nepomuk was canonised on the basis that, as the queen's confessor, he had been executed by a jealous king because he refused to reveal her confessional secrets.
9. After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director, Peter Threfall, I had had enough.
10. This place called up at war's behest
11. And within this relationship local authorities were seen as decentralized administrative agents, acting at the behest of the centre.
12. If anybody wishes to see just how pernicious that influence can be, they can look at the Likud government in Israel, which has had to impose repressive legislation at the behest of religious extremists who hold the balance of power.
13. Although religious history may be interpreted to indicate that this struggle has been undertaken at the behest of, or in support of, some extraterrestrial "god", this is not really correct, and none of those ancient "gods" must be allowed to usurp the rightful place of the emerging Created God.