behalf

IPA: bɪhˈæf

The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something.
(when adopted by someone else) One's role or rightful place; stead or authority.

Examples of "behalf" in Sentences

I picked the easiest and most obvious evidence in behalf of ID for that illustration.
The interested party or another person in his behalf is entitled to seek these remedies.
The manifestation of love God makes in our behalf is a communication of the love that He Himself is.
How a huge military establishment, prepped for offensive war in behalf of Marxism-Leninism, disintegrated in just a few years.
She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed in behalf of the NAACP, SNCC and the National Council of Negro Women.
Increase the number of conservatives who actively participate, through contributions and personal activism, in behalf of conservative candidates in Republican nomination contests.
We are the ones who are muddling through and getting crapped on by the media all the time and harped to raise our kids right and blamed if they don't turn out to be perfect little citizens, so yes, a little push back on our behalf is welcome.