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Example sentences for: insisted

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The slogan of the 1963 March on Washington was not colorblind laws but "Jobs and Freedom," and the movement's ultimate goal, King insisted, was to "make freedom real and substantive" for black Americans by absorbing them "into the mainstream of American life."
Until now Unionists have insisted that there could be no Catholic-Protestant powersharing in the province until some of the IRA's illegal weapons were decommissioned.
He also made anti-Semitic and anti-Serb statements and insisted that Croatia was only for Croats.
The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.
Instead of admitting what almost everyone believed, Big Tobacco insisted on complete denial.