Insist
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Some
insist
that refugees take jobs from natives, which implies that refugees are hard workers; others complain that refugees rely on welfare benefits, which suggests that they work too little.
Germany’s formula for the euro crisis has been to
insist
on fiscal belt-tightening and structural reforms to reduce future public spending on pensions and wages, make labor markets more flexible, and boost productivity, all in return for emergency loans.
The Chinese Communists
insist
that being Chinese means accepting the political reality of a sole Communist sovereign.
The provision, adopted to satisfy countries worried about their own potential breakaway regions (Chechnya in Russia, and Tibet in China), violates the principle, engraved in common sense if not in international law, that genocide nullifies sovereignty – that a state cannot seek to extinguish a people and yet
insist
on governing them.
People who still
insist
on talking about it in public are frequently arrested.
Contemporary adherents
insist
more on personal faith and individual spiritual experience.
Emphasizing the temporary nature of these factors, the reports
insist
that, though world GDP growth amounted to roughly 3% during the first half of the year, it will pick up in the second half.
Yet the inflation targeters who dominate today’s major central banks
insist
on fighting yesterday’s war.
But to
insist
on an arbitrary budgetary position in an economic downturn is to ignore everything we have learned about economics in the past seventy years, risking the well being of millions of workers who are thrown out of employment.
That is why the austerians are so against it, and why even those who accept the theoretical case for a stimulus
insist
on implementing it through monetary policy alone.
In fact, even as China persists with its fast-paced dredging, which has already created more than 1,200 hectares of artificial land, US officials
insist
that the South China Sea issue should not be allowed to hijack Sino-American relations.
Many crypto-evangelists
insist
that Bitcoin is “digital gold,” in part because the long-term supply is algorithmically capped at 21 million.
China will blame the trade imbalance on America’s ban on high-tech exports to China, deny engaging in currency manipulation, call on the US and its allies in East Asia to negotiate with North Korea without preconditions,
insist
on China’s entitlement as a developing country to an exemption from emissions caps on CO2, and refute criticism of its human rights record.
Resolution 1244 does not state that Kosovo must remain under Serb sovereignty, as Russia and Serbia insist, nor does it preclude independence.
By implementing urgently needed reforms at home, Macron’s government will be able to
insist
that Germany finally take action to address the EU’s economic malaise.
But any boost in its military capabilities will meet strong opposition, particularly from China and the Koreas, which continue to
insist
that Japan's alliance with the US provides it with all the security it needs.
Others, opposing this claim,
insist
that the country must live up to the legacy of its 1971 secession from Pakistan, in a revolution that proclaimed Islam insufficient grounds for nationhood and asserted the primacy of Bangladesh’s secular culture and Bengali language over its allegiance to Islamabad.
Many Shia
insist
that the last vestiges of Saddam’s elite must be purged, but many Sunnis argue that the process is intended to bar them from good jobs and political influence.
Russia is involved in supplying and manning key parts of the two army corps that are occupying Donbas, and the Ukrainian government is right to
insist
on the restoration of its control of the border as a precondition of constitutional changes.
It is time to strongly condemn the exclusion of a considerable number of people from voting and to
insist
on the release of Burma’s political prisoners.
Many African leaders
insist
that they should retain principal control of any peacekeeping force in Darfur.
European believers
insist
that the single currency is really founded on the strong political will to secure eternal peace in Europe.
To
insist
that all contracts be fulfilled would “cause a collapse of very large portions of the web,” with “serious economic and incalculable social and political consequences.”
Privatization advocates insist, however, that investments in stocks would yield sufficiently higher returns to provide individuals the same retirement income as before, with the surplus used to fill the gap.
Yet, all along, China continued to
insist
that Gwadar’s only role was commercial.
Chinese officials still
insist
that they cannot control North Korea.
The Organization of American States and other regional bodies must now forcefully
insist
on the effective restoration of constitutional norms in Venezuela.
Even those who
insist
that market economies gravitate toward full employment are forced to argue their case within the framework that Keynes created.
Rumors suggest that the US is likely to
insist
on maintaining the perverse selection process in which it gets to pick the World Bank’s president, simply because, in this election year, Obama’s opponents would trumpet loss of control over the choice as a sign of weakness.
Should America continue to
insist
on controlling the selection process, it is the Bank itself that would suffer.
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