Sentence examples for Stay insistent from inspiring English sources

And so I made a decision quite the opposite, and that is to keep saying to the Cuban people, we stand with you; we will not sit down with your leaders that imprison your people because of what they believe; we will keep an embargo on you; we do want you to have money from people here in the homeland, but we will stay insistent upon this policy until you begin to get free.

The question for outsiders as varied as Tea Party Republicans and liberal Democrats is why Mr. Obama would be so insistent that Mr. Geithner stay.

Mr. Huntsman repeated his call for most American troops to leave Afghanistan quickly, while Mr. Romney is insistent that troops should stay longer than President Obama has decreed.

Mr. Huntsman is steadfast in his belief that most American troops should come back sooner than Mr. Obama has decreed, while Mr. Romney is insistent that troops should stay longer.

Asked why he had been so insistent that he would stay on, Carr said: "[Former chairman of the US federal reserve] Alan Greenspan summed it up best with 'irrational exuberance'".

And as this was the last couple of black rhinos in existence, the zookeepers were insistent that the women stay to help the animals hopefully get pregnant.

Peter Moores will leave Barbados later this week, en route to Dublin and the Ireland team, insistent that he wants to stay in his job and asking for more time to develop a young England side.

Despite Maria's attempts to negotiate that Vera should stay in the Hospice longer, Vera was very insistent and still said 'I'd like to go on Friday'.