Sentence examples for a firm insistence from inspiring English sources

And so, at last, is a firm insistence: we are on a mental continuum with pheasants and peacocks.

In public, his contribution had been limited to selecting the pairings and combining a civilised degree of optimism about Europe's chances with a firm insistence that his team arrived on American soil as underdogs.

We also can't let up on a firm insistence to our right to not be shoved out in the cold to survive on our own, but rather to be included in the national agenda.

But China is growing increasingly anxious, both at North Korea's brinkmanship (before the 1994 deal the previous Clinton administration had considered reprocessing of spent fuel as justification for a military strike), and at America's firm insistence that North Korea dismantle its illicit weapons programmes before relations can improve.

Using the chants as a basis for dancing, yet without duplicating their firm insistence choreographically, Mr. King devised mercurial sequences for 16 of the company's 20 members.

This is what impresses me about Obama – his firm insistence that he's right at home.

Nor did the figures seem to reflect Doolittle's firm insistence that all federally sponsored colonization be voluntary.

At my dad's gentle but firm insistence, we wrapped my Flossie in tissue paper and placed her high on a shelf in my bedroom closet.

There is now firm insistence that "Han," actually one of several ethnonyms for "Chinese," refers to only one of the Chinese nationalities.

(Burke) Mark Morris Dance Group (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Morris brings his likable dancers and firm insistence on live music to Durham, N.C., for the final weekend of the American Dance Festival.

With grace and firm insistence, he taught us his conviction that the Society's success was attributable to its adherence with singleness of purpose, and dedication to the goals of its Founder, "to relieve poverty and distress, and especially the offering of temporary relief to unobtrusive suffering endured by industrious or worthy persons".