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Example sentences for: insist

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If you insist on keeping national parks or old-age pensions, he has some advice on the least bad way to run these things--but, given his druthers, he wouldn't run them at all.
If he fails to insist on the decommissioning of weapons before paramilitaries could hold office in the new Northern Ireland assembly, democrats will "be entitled to walk away from an agreement which Mr. Blair had dishonoured."
Indeed, given the ubiquitous social messages of what now constitutes enlightened masculinity (a nurturing, sensitive, cholesterol-free character, etc.), it would be interesting to know why Joe Camel is not perceived by youth as a criminal rather than, as the Federal Trade Commission's would-be censors insist is the case, as a model.
Before entering a pool of water, or getting wet at the beach, many mothers insist that their children first wet the top of their heads, so as not to catch a cold or another illness.
"If you've been unfairly accused, as you insist, sir, you should want these reporters to talk freely and honestly about what you and Mr. Bennett did or did not tell them.