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• At Collins’s behest, the biosecurity board also convened several public meetings regarding gain-of-function research policy.

• Born in Scotland, Ross came to Pinehurst in 1900 at the behest of its founder, Bostonian soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts.

• At the behest of President Xi Jinping, they have already banned the hunting, trade, and consumption of a large number of “terrestrial wild animals,” a step never fully implemented after the original SARS outbreak.

• “The state level is where we see the most important democratic backsliding, and it’s happening at the behest of Republican state officials,” said Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the University of Washington who studies state politics.

• At the behest of a friend, and as final hail Mary, Susan reached out to Pandemic of Love for help.

• Jackson declined to comment on the case, saying it was at the behest of his lawyer.

• The pair were working at the behest of a human-rights organization called the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD).

• I explained I was in the country at the behest of the Department of State, as a kind of cultural ambassador.

• Or the time he ran and hid—at his mother's behest—during the Battle of the Blackwater.

• The following day, Magnitsky was arrested at the behest of Lt. Col. Kuznetsov.

• Miss Boutts awaited the buggy, in the tiny porch, and had obeyed Isabel's to look her prettiest.