(n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
(n.) A vow; a promise.
(v. t.) To vow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Birmingham's city council leader, Bore, on Wednesday confirmed the names of 18 schools inspected by Ofsted in recent weeks at Gove's behest.
(2) Opponents warn that Japan could be dragged into damaging conflicts overseas at the behest of its main ally, the US.
(3) Eighteen-year-old Zhu Guilin said he usually preferred pop music, but relished competing with his class in the red song competitions that swept Chongqing at Bo's behest.
(4) The slippage began with the disastrous abandonment last year of the soil framework directive, at the behest of agricultural lobbyists and the British government.
(5) Belhaj, former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was detained with his wife in China in 2004 at the behest of British and US officials.
(6) At the moment it appears to be dominated by conservative Arab kingdoms so Iran, Iraq and Syria will not welcome it.” He cautioned against Pakistan being dragged into conflicts at the behest of others.
(7) After five years of harsh spending cuts and tax rises imposed at the behest of the troika, the Greek government has battled its way back to a so-called primary surplus.
(8) Based on recent public statements by European policy makers and bank executives, we believe the options FBF has put forward on the refinancing of Greece's maturing debt were made at the behest of Greece's eurozone official creditors.
(9) Five years ago, when the last major World Service cuts were pushed through, it was at the behest of a Labour government which wanted to build a presence in the Middle East.
(10) "We want alliances, not absorptions", he said, indicating that the government was looking at whether to inject state capital into the business at the behest of the unions.
(11) After Litvinenko, more sanctions against Russia would be pointless – and hypocritical | Simon Jenkins Read more Last week, a British public inquiry concluded that ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was likely to have been murdered at the personal behest of Putin .
(12) The latest fine stems in large part from allegations of mis-selling of “toxic” mortgage securities by Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, two firms JP Morgan purchased during the 2008 financial crisis at the behest of the government.
(13) At the micro level, there is no evidence of active consumer support for licensure and it seems to have been introduced mainly at the behest of members of the occupation and bureaucrats involved in the regulation of laboratories.
(14) A further EGM has been called at O'Brien's behest for 13 November, when shareholders will vote on the board's authority to issue more shares ahead of a rights issue later this year.
(15) Media ownership rules are currently the subject of a review by the Office of Fair Trading , launched at the behest of the communications minister, Lord Carter, following the publication of his interim Digital Britain report earlier this year.
(16) Ted Nugent, the rock musician who received a visit from the secret service after he said he would either be "dead or in jail" if President Barack Obama was re-elected, will be in the audience at the state of the union address on Tuesday evening, at the behest of Texas conservative Steve Stockman.
(17) It does a lot of TV advertising, and its ads are often reprimanded as being in poor taste: a 2009 campaign featuring a Spitting Image -style puppet of Julius Malema, president of the ANC youth league, was removed at the behest of Malema's lawyers.
(18) A statement released on the website of Peru's foreign ministry , which holds the rotating presidency of the intergovernmental union, said: The foreign ministry of Peru lets public opinion know that, in concordance with the statutory responsibilities of the temporary presidency of Unasur, at the behest of the Republic of Ecuador and after consulting member states, an extraordinary meeting of the Counsel of Foreign Ministers of the Union has been convened on Sunday August 19 in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador.
(19) He became a human rights activist of sorts, championing the rights of the "disappeared" – Islamist suspects who had been illegally abducted, detained and sometimes tortured by Pakistani intelligence, often at the behest of the CIA and, less frequently, MI6.
(20) The standoff began when the 164ft RV Ramon Margalef carried out what its captain described as "oceanographic works in the interest of the European community" at the behest of the Spanish government.
Command
Definition:
(v. t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
(v. t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
(v. t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
(v. t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
(v. t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
(v. i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
(v. i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.
(n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
(n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
(n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
(n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
(n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
(n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
(11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.