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Example sentences for: insistence

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"We take no comfort in saying that NATO's bombing, in crude terms, 'worked,' " said the liberal Guardian in an editorial that honorably recalled its previous insistence that Slobodan Milosevic could not be "bombed to the negotiating table."
Despite Gates' and Ballmer's insistence that the handover has nothing to do with the antitrust case, dozens of market analysts, legal scholars, and reporters suspect that it must.
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.
The LAT , in its front-page piece, has this too but adds the detail that, at the insistence of Egypt, the U.S. has also accepted language in the resolution affirming the territorial integrity and independence of Iraq.
Reed argued that the religious right needs to retreat from the shrill language used by Bauer and Dobson, and to abandon radical positions--such as their insistence on a constitutional amendment banning abortion--in favor of more popular, piecemeal solutions.