Insisted
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I later discovered that there may well have been a reason for this: one of the producers
insisted
on a different kind of ending than the original one that both the director and Lancaster wanted.
So I had doubts about the movie, but my brother
insisted
I watch it.
I didn't want to watch it, but my husband
insisted.
(Maybe the multi-national money people behind this project
insisted
on using Ireland.)
This is one of the very few movies I have
insisted
on that my children see as part of their education, and this should apply to many grownups too.
My son is five, and he
insisted
we buy the CDs for the first and second movies.
Now I tried posting this review at this point, but IMDb
insisted
I have at least ten lines to a review.
She
insisted
I watch it, and I am glad she did.
I was in this movie as well, I won't say who I played, but the best thing is to try to make it a drinking game, that's what I did with my friends when they
insisted
on seeing it.
I wanted to turn it off about 10 minutes into it but my husband
insisted
we give it a fair chance.
In order to capitalize on Turkey’s strengths, its government
insisted
on participating in the nuclear talks – even hosting a session in Istanbul this year.
However, his fellow military commanders
insisted
on compliance with Pinochet's own Constitution, forcing the General to back down from a demand for emergency powers to set aside the results.
That approach succeeded once, with the 2017 corporate tax cut, because big Republican donors
insisted
on the measure, but it failed with Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare, as three Republican senators balked.
They asked Jonathan not to run in 2011, and
insisted
that the PDP nominate a candidate from the north.
He naively ignored the harsh lessons of 20 years of abortive peacemaking, and
insisted
on sticking to the worn-out paradigm of direct negotiations between parties that, when left to their own devices, are bound to come to a deadlock.
But he nonetheless
insisted
that this did not prove Caplan right.
He
insisted
on a formal process.
In the constitutional convention, the Blair government accepted the inclusion of its provisions in the body of the text, but
insisted
on language limiting their reach.
Moreover, abandoning the Kyoto Protocol’s exemption of developing countries from obligations for current emissions, the US has
insisted
on obligations from China and India that reflect a common form of “taxation” of emissions.
Yet, after taking office, Trump denounced it as a “horrible deal,” and
insisted
that it be renegotiated.
But, as both Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama have insisted, we must go further.
Trump also
insisted
that “there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election,” even though the intelligence agencies had made no attempt to determine the actual impact of Russia’s unprecedented meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Maduro’s election in 2013, by contrast, was a very close affair that many people question; for one thing, the opposition was allowed virtually no television time, even if starry-eyed US academics
insisted
that Maduro won fair and square.
Populist members of Congress, predictably outraged, demanded an audit and
insisted
on publication of a list of all banks that the RFC had aided.
Mikhail Kasyanov, a prime minister under Putin and now a leader of the opposition People’s Freedom Party,
insisted
that “nobody knew” about the swap.
To see the link, recall the “fiscal compact” to eliminate structural budget deficits that Germany
insisted
upon as a condition of agreeing to bailout loans for distressed governments and banks.
During Barack Obama’s presidency, both were prominent figures in the racist “birther” movement that
insisted
Obama was born outside the US, and therefore was not entitled to be president.
The island ran its own affairs, becoming a rambunctious democracy in the 1980s, but never
insisted
on international recognition as a full-fledged sovereign state.
The credit for imparting urgency to an issue that had become a hardy perennial of Indian politics goes to the mass campaign that coalesced around a Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare, who
insisted
that a “Jan Lokpal Bill” (“People’s Ombudsman”) drafted by his followers had to be enacted in toto.
Cameron has long
insisted
that he and his government will campaign for a “Yes” vote in his promised referendum.
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