in behalf of
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Under questioning from prosecutors Thursday morning, Weisselberg appeared to provide them ammunition for the argument that he was acting in behalf of the company.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Mr. Richards’s efforts in behalf of the apostrophe did not go without recognition.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2021
“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
What I did then, in behalf of Security, was done on the spur of the moment, and afterwards I tried not to think about it.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
