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Example sentences for: insisting

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But if you think today's Cuba is a regime on a par with Pol Pot's Cambodia--something that strikes me as ludicrous--or Ceausescu's Romania (more plausible), then I could see the case for insisting that he stay even if you normally favor Dad's rights.
In some variants a young girl specifically transgresses religious beliefs by insisting on going to a dance on Good Friday, a religious holy day, and a revered day of prayer in Chicano Catholic households.
The House Republicans, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, are insisting on their version of the budget.
The idea is that Crane clings to scientific principle in the face of the supernatural--he dumbfounds the locals by insisting that the killer is human and appalls them by performing an autopsy on a female victim.
Does Schoenfeld really mean to compare women writing about women who died in the camps with "a narrow cult living somewhere on a commune and insisting on a macabre sisterhood with the dead Jewish women of Europe"?