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A third pylon leads on to the oldest parts of the temple, past obelisks added at the behest of Pharaoh Seti I and Queen Hatshepsut in the New Kingdom era.
Perhaps the most questionable piece of networking is one that Fowler testified he couldn't recall, but which documents revealed for the first time yesterday strongly confirm: namely, contacting the CIA at the behest of Roger Tamraz, an international financier "with a questionable reputation" (says the Times ) who was angling for Clinton administration support for a proposed Caspian region oil pipeline, and who had given the Democrats $300,000.
Either the only witness, Wade's buddy Jack (Jim True), or a third party--perhaps at the behest of the town's capitalist overlord (Holmes Osborne).
In Venice, every vendor sells the same bad ice cream, evidently at the behest of a conglomerate whose boats we saw unloading their sinister cargo at various docks.
In 1994, he supported the Violence Against Women Act at the behest of women's groups.