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 Translation for 'behest' from English to Russian
NOUN   a behest | behests
повеление {с}behest [literary]
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Translation for 'behest' from English to Russian

behest [literary]
повеление {с}
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Usage Examples English
  • Jian was posthumously rehabilitated in 1978, at the behest of Deng Xiaoping.
  • The Prime Minister's Resignation Honours in the United Kingdom are honours granted at the behest of an outgoing prime minister following their resignation.
  • Sanders was born in Wimbledon, London. He learned carpentry at his father's behest to help keep himself employed between acting jobs.
  • Later, Tityos attempted to rape Leto at the behest of Hera. He was slain by Artemis and Apollo.
  • Pulteney Street was named after Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm on 23 May 1837, at the behest of Governor Hindmarsh.

  • The Palazzo Pretorio, or "broletto", was constructed in 1348, also at the behest of Giovanni Visconti.
  • Originally called Y? and then Danse Crazyn, "Say It Again", at the behest of their record company.
  • At Ma's behest, Tencent launched in 2005 the C2C platform Paipai.com (...), a direct competitor to e-commerce giant Alibaba.
  • In 1998 Marcos was the subject of a lawsuit over an under-collateralized "behest loan" in the amount of ₱60 million which his company, Bagumbayan Corp, received from the Development Bank of the Philippines.
  • With the Executioner, she menaces Jane Foster again at Loki's behest.

  • The term behest loan refers to a loan granted to individuals or corporations favored by a powerful government official despite their lack of qualifications to receive such a loan.
  • In 1999, at the behest of his two eldest children, he published an autobiography, entitled 'Sunshine and Shadows, A Personal Story'.
  • He is described as also being active in Avignon, France at the behest of princes of Italy.
  • "Hertig Fredrik av Normandie" ("Duke Frederick of Normandy") is an anonymous, 3,310-line Swedish translation of a lost German romance, which according to "Hertig Fredrik" was itself translated from French at the behest of the Emperor Otto.
  • Oshin and his daughter Alice (Leo's wife) were assassinated in 1329 at the behest of Leo IV.

  • The guardianship was ended only in 1608 at the behest of the Elector Palatine Friedrich IV (1574–1610).
  • In 2021, Turkish authorities started cracking down on Uyghur protesters in Turkey at the Chinese behest.
  • Estimates of how many were executed on behest of the Spanish Inquisition have been offered from early on; historian Hernando del Pulgar (1436– [...]) estimated that 2,000 people were burned at the stake between 1478 and 1490.
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