A surprising number were built at the behest of women, including princesses, courtesans and merchants' wives, who wished to attain immortality through the gift of water.
Instead of being the teacher's pet, who liked to read, he was now a hardened, toughened boy who was willing to please his urges at the behest of others and with no regard for the consequences.
And actually, how can we create a system of work that isn't tethered to a calendar where you aren't at the behest of what some timetable says you do or you don't have to do.
Trimmle, at the behest, vanished in a flash, as if thankful to be out of the room, and when she reappeared, conducting the agitated underling, Mary had regained her self-possession, and had her questions pat.
Every month it feels like you are at the behest of some hidden emotional forces and it's frustrating and it's exhausting and it feels like it will never be over and never be okay.
So you could think, oh, maybe, because Polish Elvis was there at the behest of Big Joe, that maybe Big Joe and Polish Elvis convinced red leather woman Frances Reed to kill the brother.
However, I do know That whoever did fire the shots, they were acting at the behest of the chief orchestrator of the plot, I believe, as Carlos Marcello and his Klausowitz, David Ferry.
At the heart of the book is an ecumenical council, which convened in the 1960s, at the behest of a liberal and reformist pope, John XXIII, to consider " updating" the church.
One of the other things that the administration did recently, I think at his behest, was to try what's called a pocket rescission, something that hasn't been done since the Carter administration.