Definition of Behalf

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Definition of Behalf
	Behalf Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication. Related Definitions: Advantage, Benefit, Defense, Favor, Interest, Profit, Stead, Support, Vindication

Behalf Quotations

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
George W. Bush

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Behalf Translations

behalf in Swedish is grund

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