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Example sentences for: insistence

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The Post Express of Nigeria said in an editorial that it would like to "commend the American people for their watchful insistence on probity and moral rectitude for public office holders," but proposed caution in pursuing Clinton because "it will be foolhardy for America to cut its nose to spite its face."
But neither candidate will commit to doing either, despite Russert's insistence that there is no free lunch.
"His insistence that the conflict be conducted from the air and only from the air, and that an air war was winnable, was denounced in military circles, ever more openly, as the irresponsible reverie of a non-military man."
This is my friend's second marriage, but at her fiance's insistence, she is once again having a full-blown formal affair--including all the gift registries.
The insistence on Mass in the vernacular is by far the least objectionable to me: It is the new Mass itself that offends deeply against the age-old traditional teachings, not the vernacular languages.