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behalf English
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Nobody will do it on your behalf.
I won't do that on Tom's behalf.
Bob expressed words of thanks on behalf of his classmates.
The minister worked hard on behalf of the poor.
The lawyer said he would speak on behalf of Mr. Smith.
I appreciate your graciousness and efforts on my behalf.
I bought a new dress for her on his behalf.
I am writing on behalf of my husband, who is in the hospital.
My brother did that on behalf of me.
She is collecting on behalf of the blind.
The vice-president attended the ceremony on behalf of the president.
On behalf of the government, the mass media are abused.
Go to him and greet him on my behalf.
Tom apologized on her behalf.
On behalf of the company, I would like to express our hearty thanks to you all.
We are speaking on behalf of the young people of Australia.
My oldest brother attended the meeting on behalf of our father.
I am writing to you on behalf of my mother.
I thank you on behalf of my son.
He made a speech on behalf of our company.
He spoke to me on behalf of the company.
He put himself to much trouble on my behalf.
He is acting on his own behalf.
She worked on behalf of her family.
Movie subtitles
Yes, I'm calling on behalf of Dr Chandramohan.
On behalf of St Judas, my apologies for this harrowing experience.
Forgive me for giving you the slip. While Juve is at the Station, it is better that I am free to work on his behalf to see that justice is done as soon as possible.
I am Gwynplaine. On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, please follow me for a hearing in the Supreme Court.
In behalf of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, I want to take this occasion of welcoming you to Waukegan.
AND OFFER HIM ON BEHALF OF MY COUNTRY THE RIGHT HAND OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP.
Commandant Dreyfus, in behalf of the president the people of the republic, and by virtue of the powers vested in me I knight you a member of the Legion of Honor.
In appreciation of your great success in the fields of love and finance I wish to congratulate you on behalf of the members of the Fifth Avenue Anti-Stuffed Shirt and Flying Trapeze Club.
I beg of you, on behalf of his poor wife, find yourself another Kristian.
Ladies, the Confederacy asks for your jewelry on behalf of our noble Cause.
On behalf of Mrs. Wilkes and Mrs. Hamilton.
Panama Smith, in view of the evidence presented in your behalf by your codefendant and because the arresting officers failed to detect you actually selling intoxicating liquors, I find you not guilty.
When Emma leaves, you'll escort her to the station, give a hundred crowns to the engine driver and ask him on my behalf not to stop anywhere until Prague.
My name is Deems Taylor, and it's my very pleasant duty to welcome you here on behalf of Walt Disney, Leopold Stokowski and all the other artists and musicians whose combined talents went into the creation of this new form of entertainment, Fantasia.
On behalf of my master, Emir Abd el-Kader, prince of the faithful, defender of the Prophet's religion, welcome.
On behalf of France and science, I came to help the emir and his family.
Squadron leader Hubert, on behalf of His Majesty Louis-Philippe, I appoint you Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Squadron leader Toussaint, on behalf of His Majesty, I appoint you Knight of the Legion of Honor.
I'll speak to Governor Randon on your behalf.
You speak on behalf of the Staff!
Be prepared to speak on behalf of the Empire with the great, immortal lama whose soul is forever passing from a dead body to a new one.
Are you here on behalf of my son?
The 39 Steps is an organization of spies. collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of.
I have been pleading with the Governor on your behalf. asking him to be as merciful as you would be cruel.
He is prejudiced in his own behalf.
Yes, and I'm sincerely grateful to her for testifying on my behalf.
I'll do it on her behalf.
My mother will go on my behalf.
Your regrettable affair. with a notorious young lady. who just met with an untimely end. would be quite inexplicable. had you not incurred, on behalf of that young lady. expenses out of all proportion to your avowed income.
On behalf of Freedonia's women, I make one final effort to prevent war.
Where to, you bearer of misfortune?! I put them on the obituaries, that I sent out on behalf of the attorney.
As Minister of Public Communications, on behalf of my wife and myself, we wish to place on record the pride...we feel in being selected.
On behalf of Dexter and Company. it gives me great pleasure to award you this little token of our gratitude.
Commander Schultz, I apologise for my friend. Let me say, on behalf of myself and the others, that we consider it a great privilege to die for our country.
On behalf of the city council.
I can see in their departure a symbol of the eternal youth of science, and I'm especially glad that unknown areas in our universe will be visited on our behalf by so gracious ambassadors.
Are you going somewhere on behalf of a dancing engagement?
I want to thank you on behalf of our club.
News and current affairs
I do not believe it is right to make a change of such magnitude without specifically consulting the people on whose behalf we govern.
Another reason for cynicism is that the G-7 didn't move mainly on their own initiative, but rather in response to a growing cry of international civil society for action on behalf of the world's poorest.
The motivation for urgent action on behalf of the poorest nations is clear.
With a continued worldwide movement on behalf of global justice and economic development, a much more ambitious program for the world's poorest can still be reached.
That made it increasingly difficult for the government in London to declare war on behalf of the empire when nationalist sentiments began to intensify.
With the rise of nationalism, however, it became increasingly difficult for London to declare war on behalf of the empire, the defense of which became a heavier burden.
At the same time, an anti-clerical, secular movement on behalf of constitutionalism appeared in Iran - a reaction to the absolutist alliance between the Quajar Shahs and the religious establishment.
Their investors are too often pension funds, which also face an agency problem, because their executives make decisions on behalf of others.
Such creative approaches could spur a tremendous amount of research and development on behalf of the world's poor, and do much more good than yet another IMF-World Bank mission.
Then Israel, with strong US backing, refused to recognize the democratically elected Hamas government and withheld payment of the millions in taxes collected by the Israelis on its behalf.
Before China joins, however, the final terms on which it enters the WTO must be negotiated with a group of WTO members acting on behalf of the organization and expressed in a formal agreement, the Protocol of Accession.
The hope for more liberal democratic change in China seems to lie in a conflict between the rising middle class, rallying on both its own behalf and that of the poor, and the authoritarian state.
Similarly, there was an increase in public advocacy on behalf of rural workers (who have been migrating by the tens of millions into China's cities), as well as calls for significant constitutional changes.
Creating meaning and preserving values is probably the one task that Europe has to undertake on behalf of the entire world.
But, if that is a real fear for the ECB - if it is not merely acting on behalf of private lenders - surely it should have demanded that the banks have more capital.
They could thus guarantee - also on behalf of other creditors - that the state's finances were solid, and that debts would be repaid.
It was particularly important that she explicitly included her own view, unlike when she spoke on behalf of the entire FOMC after its September meeting.
Every bribe that is taken has a payer, and too often the bribe payer is a corporation from an advanced industrial country or someone acting on its behalf.
Former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin reportedly tried to influence the current government to intervene on behalf of Enron in its hotly contested dispute in India.
Liu's committed advocacy on behalf of democracy in China is, above all, intended for the benefit of the Chinese people.
It appeared symbolically on June 16, 1989, when I had the opportunity to speak on behalf of the young generation.