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“Now the prosecution’s case rests on one thing: convincing you, the jurors, that Mr. Weisselberg’s actions were done in behalf of the company.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022
“And I gladly join in ascribing praise to that great daily for courageous fight upon this subject in behalf of the common people.”
From Fox News • Oct. 16, 2020
“The sons of Liberty withstood the Lords in Parliament in behalf of true Liberty,” the Regulators complained in 1766, so “let not Officers under them carry on unjust Oppression in our own Province.”
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Justices found that McDonnell’s conduct - steering the state machinery in behalf of favored interests - did not amount to “official acts.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 16, 2017
In the same book, I met with one of Sheridan’s mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
