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The European Union thinks differently; in its economic cooperation and free trade agreement with Mexico, for example, it insisted on – and achieved – the inclusion of a “democracy clause” that made its economic benefits conditional on ongoing respect for democratic rule and human rights.
While not denying that state sovereignty was the basis of the international system, Kouchner insisted that it could not be a license for governments to kill.
“The Filipino,” he insisted, “is worth dying for.”
In an interview with the Brussels-based newspaper EU Observer, Dalli insisted that the Commission was “lying” about the events surrounding his departure, and that he was forced to resign in an illegal manner.
He told the referee that he had not been fouled, but the referee insisted that he take the penalty kick.
The ECB should have insisted on more transparency – indeed, that should have been one of the main lessons of 2008.
Regulators should not have allowed the banks to speculate as they did; if anything, they should have required them to buy insurance – and then insisted on restructuring in a way that ensured that the insurance paid off.
Some PDP politicians in the Muslim north insisted that their region be allowed to present a candidate, as Obasanjo, who was viewed as representing the Christian south, had served eight years.
The slump had been created by fiscal extravagance, they insisted, and therefore could be cured only by fiscal austerity.
In his classic treatise Strategy: The Indirect Approach, B.H. Liddell Hart, reflecting on his World War I experiences, insisted on the foolhardiness of direct attacks on an entrenched enemy.
The World Bank insisted that corruption be seen as a cancer, and that fighting it be made synonymous with fighting poverty.
Then again, for three consecutive years, Iraq’s national security advisor – a physician with no credentials for the job when appointed by the US occupation authority, except that he spoke tolerable English – insisted that the next year would be the last in which American troops were needed.
They were misfits who, long after the war had ended, insisted on keeping their wartime heroism a secret from their neighbors – afraid, it seems, that their own communities would otherwise shun, threaten, and ostracize them.
Corrupt regimes, through intimidation and bribery, insisted on the loyalty of the bureaucracy, police, and armed services.
In Britain, Brexit opponents insisted that if voters decided to leave the European Union, a recession, if not a full-blown economic crisis, would be inevitable.
He insisted on being consulted by the Bush administration on US plans, and when some in Washington thought aloud about taking on Iraq after Afghanistan, the Prime Minister registered a clear veto.
Far from condemning Mugabe, they called for the “lifting of all forms of sanctions against Zimbabwe” and insisted that the scandalously rigged elections of the past six years had been free and fair.
India had insisted on a popular vote.
Indeed, when North Korea approached Swedish academics to request training in business management, they insisted that the training take place in conditions as near to those prevailing in North Korea as possible.
They insisted on budgetary stability and the “six-pack” that the left dislikes.
But the German and French business communities insisted that the monetary union must include some of Italy’s more competitive companies.
Her sentence was roundly supported by modernist Muslim intellectuals, who insisted that the punishment was justly applied and cannot be questioned because it has divine sanction.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that there should be no joint EU guarantee; each country would have to take care of its own institutions.
Through its delays the IMF incited both devaluation and default, with a resulting economic collapse far worse than if some preventive debt restructuring had been insisted upon.
“This time,” Salvini insisted, “change is coming.”
The Russian government has insisted on a truly common project, in which both sides would jointly decide on whether or not to intercept an incoming missile.
But those policies almost always reduced aggregate demand, pushed the economy into a deeper slump, and further undermined confidence – most recently when the International Monetary Fund insisted on them in East Asia in the 1990’s.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has insisted on paying an annual visit to the Yasukuni shrine, where Japan’s past aggressive wars are glorified, and where war criminals are among the buried, behavior that China’s government considers unacceptable.
If, Brandeis insisted, there is “time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
Even after conceding that 14 days is “sometimes too little time to permit confident diagnosis” of major depressive disorder, former Psychiatric Times editor Ronald W. Pies insisted that “this is true regardless of the ‘context’ in which the depressive symptoms occur.”
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