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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."
Now, one could argue that by insisting on controlling the standards for Java, Sun is violating Joy's Law.
People in the Reagan administration, Reagan partisans, and Reagan himself have had obvious self-serving reasons for making such arguments--for insisting that a major event in world history that arose out of a vast confluence of factors was the result of the policies and the rhetoric of a single man.
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.
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.