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But it is an error to suppose that our great forefathers-though accustomed to speak and think of human existence as a state merely of trial and warfare, and though unfeignedly prepared to sacrifice goods and life at the behest of duty-made it a matter of conscience to reject such means of comfort, or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.
This is not really anti-feminist, since much of the new laddism seems to be coming at the behest of a new generation of Cosmo-trained sex-addled fembots.
, at the behest of the government, which says an experimental anti-nerve gas medication given to up to 300,000 U.
And last year, at the behest of the King family, the Justice Department ordered an investigation into the assassination.
Most recently, at the behest of Disney and other large media corporations with soon-to-expire copyrights, Congress added 20 years to all existing copyright claims.
(Answer: For the same reason they're flinging themselves into mosh pits at the behest of radical documentary filmmakers, because they're running to get attention.
Democrats accused Republicans of killing the bill at the behest of Big Tobacco.
By contrast, genuine enthusiasm greeted the unfolding Bruce Babbitt story, as Gigot and Bob Schieffer (CBS's Face the Nation ) both predicted that Babbitt's Supreme Court ambitions would be ruined by accusations that he had blocked a casino license for an Indian tribe at the behest of another tribe that had given money to the Democrats.
Perhaps the most questionable piece of networking is one that Fowler testified he couldn't recall, but which documents revealed for the first time yesterday strongly confirm: namely, contacting the CIA at the behest of Roger Tamraz, an international financier "with a questionable reputation" (says the Times ) who was angling for Clinton administration support for a proposed Caspian region oil pipeline, and who had given the Democrats $300,000.
Never close to this unassuming homemaker, Ellen returns reluctantly, at the behest of her father-mentor, an imposing professor of literature at a small, middling college who maintains that he's too busy to tend to his wife.
Either the only witness, Wade's buddy Jack (Jim True), or a third party--perhaps at the behest of the town's capitalist overlord (Holmes Osborne).
At the behest of a vivacious teacher, Miss Riley (Laura Dern), they're working toward entering the state science fair and competing for college scholarships, but their true goal is simpler: making those rockets go straight and long.
In 1994, he supported the Violence Against Women Act at the behest of women's groups.
The negative American Airlines spin: We're being busted at the behest of our competitors.
In Venice, every vendor sells the same bad ice cream, evidently at the behest of a conglomerate whose boats we saw unloading their sinister cargo at various docks.
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