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Example sentences for: insistence

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In giving her final seminar, she switched from her earlier insistence that B-DNA was nonhelical, but did not show the photo that gave the strongest evidence for helicity.
According to the ST , "Acehnese separatism is fuelled by popular anger against Jakarta for taking more than it returns to the resource-rich province, and by Acehnese insistence that they are an Islamic enclave distinct from the Javanese who dominate the central government."
"George Stephanopoulos, on his publisher's insistence that for the next book he use a ghostwriter and, for the media tour, lose the rug."
But KSM's desire to drop him from the operation yielded to Bin Ladin's insistence to keep him.
The main reason, says the paper, is that "the poor, the handicapped and the troubled--the people Mother Teresa spent her life helping--were barred from taking part, at the insistence of the Indian military, largely for security reasons."