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Example sentences for: insistence

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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."
3) A Pakistani woman won a historic court victory allowing her to remain married to the man she loves (and with whom she eloped) despite her parents' insistence that under Islamic law, they have the sole authority to choose her husband.
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."
Bettelheim's penchant for heroic narrative certainly did bolster his popular image, though Pollak gives ample evidence that his insistence on blaming mothers and claiming miracles also invited skepticism from parents and psychiatrists.
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.