cycle, at sb's behest, Russia’s military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a new round of talks on Monday, even as Russia’s military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv’s suburbs. https://to.pbs.org/3q4y4hd

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Ukraine and Russia resume peace talks as fighting in Kyiv continues

It was just a month ago that Aso agreed to serve as secretary-general at Fukuda's behest. According to sources, they had already talked about the "post-Fukuda" administration.

But today it is in a new crisis, and this time the workers’ anger is aimed at the United States, which is set to impose punishing new tariffs on Chinese steel pipe imports early next year, at the behest of struggling American steel makers.





A common myth, popularized in the movies, of a theft to order carried out at the behest of a private collector, “is really to be considered a fiction,” said Karl-Heinz Kind, team leader of the works of art unit at Interpol.

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More than 4,200 events are being held around the country at the behest of the president-elect, as part of an experiment in grass-roots politics and policy-making.


cycle

n.

1. An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs: Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle.
2. 1. A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon: A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons.
   2. A periodically repeated sequence of events: the cycle of birth, growth, and death; a cycle of reprisal and retaliation.

cycle, liturgical：禮儀週期：分聖誕節和復活節兩大週期，此兩週期外則為常年期。聖誕節週期包括將臨期、聖誕期；復活節週期包括四旬期、復活期。

cycle (PLAYS/POEMS) Show phonetics
group noun [C] （詩・物語の）一群 (the Arthurian ～ アーサー王伝説集）;
a group of plays, poems, etc. written by one person and connected with each other by dealing with the same characters or ideas:
It's one in a cycle of plays that are being performed on successive evenings.

1. 1. The aggregate of traditional poems or stories organized around a central theme or hero: the Arthurian cycle.
   2. A series of poems or songs on the same theme: Schubert's song cycles.

behest 
FORMAL ━━ n. 命令.
at the behest of　…の命令通りに.
at sb's behest/at the behest of sb because someone has asked or ordered you to do something:
The budget proposal was adopted at the president's behest.