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510 examples of Insisted in a sentence

And he insisted on beautiful music.
But they insisted.
And so the media industries begged, insisted, demanded that Congress do something.
She insisted that a person who looks and sounds like me can in fact be a dad.
He insisted, no embalming, no open coffin, no funeral.
In 1976, for example, government and industry insisted that the amount of energy needed to make a dollar of GDP could never go down.
You're not allowed to appear on U.K. passports with electronic equipment, but I insisted to the passport office that what they were seeing was actually a new part of my body, an extension of my brain, and they finally accepted me to appear with the passport photo.
"We will still see each other," I insisted.
A total maverick from a remote province of Afghanistan, he insisted that his daughter, my mom, go to school, and for that he was disowned by his father.
There must be millions of planets in the Milky Way, and as Carl Sagan insisted for many years, and was laughed at for it, there must be billions and billions in the universe.
Suddenly the voice didn't seem quite so benign anymore, and when she insisted that I seek medical attention, I duly complied, and which proved to be mistake number two.
Over two decades ago, the world insisted to Africa that markets must be liberalized, that economies must be structurally adjusted.
We insisted.
At the same time, they've insisted on standards and regulation, which has led to fast consensus and therefore, fast adoption.
They demonstrated that the way people treated some particular group of others was logically inconsistent with the way they insisted on being treated themselves.
So just to make sure, I insisted that we build a mock-up in wood, at scale, of the railing and the sea wall.
But George insisted and insisted, and finally, John took him up to the microphone, and George said very loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen!
But you know, he insisted that we get his whole harvest in the picture, so we had to zoom out a lot.
When Summerwear came to this country from Jamaica in the early '60s, he insisted on wearing light summer suits, no matter the weather, and in the course of researching their lives, I asked my mom, "Whatever became of Summerwear?"
And when he insisted, she said, "I would hug him as if it were for the last time."
But he insisted: "How about having a net sticking out from the edge of the roof?
He insisted that the War God no longer served Zunis but museum visitors.
They were so focused on their own individual work, they didn't even know who they were sitting next to, and it was only when I insisted that we stop working and invest time in getting to know each other that we achieved real momentum.
Woman: They insisted that I was lying.
My teachers insisted that I would go for an eye test.
As a U.S. President once famously insisted: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Back in Britain, she mounted another campaign, this time for civilian hospitals, and insisted that the same design principles were applied to them.
When trains began to shuttle people across the coutryside, many insisted they would never replace horses.
Even some experts insisted they wouldn’t catch on.
And on this job site, 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, Bruce insisted that we bring on labor from all backgrounds, and that half of them be women.
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