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Example sentences for: insist

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But they insist that they stand by the right to any other second-term abortion.
The Washington Post 's Desson Howe and Slate's David Edelstein insist the film still has its virtues: Every so often, "something wickedly inspired will come along" (Howe); the film's still "more agreeable than most of the slapdash laugh-machines around" (Edelstein).
Reviewers say the film, a "conventional techno-thiller" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ), lacks its predecessors' tongue-in-cheek charm, and they insist it's time to retire the Bond franchise.
Veterans' groups view the facilities as "a national asset that must be preserved" and insist that they "have earned the right to care."
All the more reason, perhaps, to insist on a little more bravura individuality on the part of our world leaders.