Example sentences for: behalf

How can you use “behalf” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Can David Plotz (and everyone at Slate ) please refrain from speaking on behalf of History?

  • It used its police power on behalf of mining and industrial interests to break strikes, beat up demonstrators, and deport immigrants with the wrong ideas.

  • Although he discovered the position through tips from military friends, the Post reveals that Bradley's application did not get special treatment from military personnel and that he specifically asked the Knicks not to lobby on his behalf.

  • Dodson, 454 U. S. 312, 321-322 (1981) (holding that a public defender does not act "under color of state law" because he "works under canons of professional responsibility that mandate his exercise of independent judgment on behalf of the client" and because there is an "assumption that counsel will be free of state control").

  • Gibraltar was the scene of some fierce fighting in 1704, when Great Britain captured the Rock on behalf of Austria.


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