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Example sentences for: insisting

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To this conservative audience, Inglis touts his anti-pork philosophy, insisting that he won't "play by the old system of bringing home a little money and expecting everyone to fall at my feet and call me Savior."
It is quite firm about the r -sound when it follows a vowel-sound or is at the ends of words, not dropping it as is usual with the RP but insisting that it be given full value, in various ways, as it is in Scots and Irish and, generally but not always, in the speech of most Americans except for those in New England and the South.
Defenders of affirmative action say, in essence, that as policy-making generalizations go, this one is overwhelmingly valid--and that more justice will be lost than gained by insisting on scientific precision.
The Washington Post also has a lot on the drunk driving angle, but quotes Dodi Fayed's father's lawyer as insisting that the revelation "changes absolutely nothing" and that it was an "ambience of harassment" of Diana and Dodi Fayed by the photographers that was the key.
4) Finally, Tonelson denies that productivity increases lead to higher wages, insisting that the dramatic convergence in hourly compensation between the United States and the Asian tigers has been achieved through a fall in the U.S. level.