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Later, Steele changed her story, saying Willey had told her that the president had "made a pass" at her only weeks after the alleged incident and that she had lied at Willey's behest.
Democrats accused Republicans of killing the bill at the behest of Big Tobacco.
The negative American Airlines spin: We're being busted at the behest of our competitors.
Thus when Jordan says that Currie called him to ask him for help in finding Lewinsky a job in New York, there is every reason to think he is telling the truth--and it's at least plausible that Currie was calling at her own behest, not Clinton's.
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.