Example collocations logo

Insisted in sentence

510 examples of Insisted in a sentence

Instead of emphasizing his design’s pomposity, the younger Speer insisted on its environmental friendliness.
It even insisted that it could imprison an American citizen, José Padilla, incommunicado for an indefinite period without criminal charges until, faced with the prospect of Supreme Court review, it suddenly pressed charges that had nothing to do with the allegations that had formed the basis for his detention.
But the discussion has now broadened to the more serious question of whether millions of people voted illegally, as Trump has insisted since the election.
Japan's Political Black HoleFor weeks, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi insisted that he would name a "dedicated inflation fighter" to head the Bank of Japan.
What makes such a deal seem impossible is not the principled opposition of the two governments – Greece has demanded a debt reduction, while Germany has insisted that not a euro of debt can be written off – but something more fundamental: while Greece is obviously the weaker party in this conflict, it has far more at stake.
America has insisted that others sign on to its terms – leaving the UN process hanging by a thread – but it has never shown goodwill to the rest of the world on this issue, nor the ability or interest needed to take the lead on it.
That same day, Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer, insisted that monetary policy would not be made by elected governments.
Aid should not be a mere side show to the seemingly endless peace talks taking place in Geneva; as United Nations emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos insisted, it must be central to those negotiations.
China is currently playing by the international rules but is increasingly signaling that it expects to be treated as first among equals in the region (as the US has long insisted with respect to its position in the Americas).
Yet, because Goldstone went further and found a policy of intentionality, before revising that judgment, he should have insisted on additional evidence that his finding was not warranted.
When one of Britain’s highest courts insisted that the government should pursue Brexit in a lawful way, the judges were denounced as “enemies of the people.”
China’s Currency Catch-22LONDON – Officials at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have long insisted that “China won’t weaponize the renminbi.”
Each time, the minister insisted that it would never happen again.
In Nairobi, one man insisted that no one should be above the law.
Similarly, because Santos had wagered his presidency on reaching an agreement, the FARC insisted on concessions that previously would have seemed unrealistic.
Speaker after speaker insisted that the movement’s weakness was brought about by the fact that its leaders succumbed to the temptations that come with government positions.
He told them that he rejected cruelty to animals, but insisted that it was his duty to promote the interests of people before dogs.
Furthermore, the Sunni-based, anti-Syrian Future Movement to which Siniora belongs effectively extended this inequity into the present parliament when it overrode the opposition and insisted on conducting the 2005 general elections on the basis of the Electoral Law gerrymandered by Syria in 2000.
It is now generally accepted that, as the left has always insisted, Israel should be ready to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and accept a Palestinian state in exchange for real peace.
Though he agreed that having one person in both roles is, in principle, a bad idea, he insisted that he was the exception.
And his administration has already insisted that language about climate change be omitted from a joint statement issued by G20 finance ministers.
Although most Chinese in Malaysia now feel that they deserve the full rights of citizenship, they have not insisted on absolute equality.
So when she insisted, repeatedly, that she would not hold an election before the next due date, in 2020, she was believed unreservedly.
Russia and China insisted that the US cannot take action without approval from the United Nations Security Council, where they will veto any such move.
Advocates of independence have long insisted that they are motivated primarily by the distinctiveness of Scottish identity.
So far, Scottish nationalists have insisted that an independent Scotland would retain the pound.
At Camp David II, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak cleverly insisted that the first clause of his offer included acceptance of the end of the conflict, which was a problem for Palestinians, given that historic rights remained unresolved.
But neither Khrushchev, nor Mikhail Gorbachev, nor Boris Yeltsin were able to uproot Russia’s stubborn culture of indifference and subordination, precisely because they insisted on top-down change and expected that the Russian people would simply acquiesce en masse.
Abbas will be able to argue that he advised Hamas to renew the truce and to end its missile fire on Israeli towns, but that Hamas insisted on exposing Palestinian civilians to devastation.
An April 2011 opinion poll found Trump leading all GOP presidential contenders for 2012, with especially strong backing from Republicans who firmly believed that Obama, as Trump insisted, had not been born in the United States, as the US Constitution requires.
BackNext