Sentence examples for an insistence upon from inspiring English sources

The demand for supernatural faith is at heart, an insistence upon obedience and unquestioning compliance.

The logic of tragedy that possessed him demanded an insistence upon the latter.

One implies unquestioning loyalty; the other entails democratic participation and an insistence upon upholding the ideals that the country represents.

Like so many of his contemporaries, he practiced what the political historian Tony Judt calls a system of "double-entry moral bookkeeping": "an insistence upon certain normative values" combined with "the subsequent refusal to recognize their application in selected cases".

Wise's growing reputation for an insistence upon accuracy and realism was epitomized in the memorable barroom brawl between leading actors Robert Mitchum and Robert Preston in the moody film-noirish western Blood on the Moon (1948).

The firm embodied a business strategy that has begun to supplant the traditional partnership values of loyalty and collegiality with an insistence upon expansion: by merging with another firm (and a different culture) or by offering unwieldy financial packages to lure partners from rival institutions.

Central to this "spirit," for Fichte, is an uncompromising insistence upon the practical certainty of human freedom and a thoroughgoing commitment to the task of providing a transcendental account of ordinary experience that could explain the objectivity and necessity of theoretical reason (cognition) in a manner consistent with the practical affirmation of human liberty.

And baseball's struggles to make its own All-Star Game interesting are, as I wrote last year, primarily a result of a baffling insistence upon the game being important, instead of loose, lazy fun.

A widespread insistence upon prophetic and ecstatic power in literature seems at present to be undermining the complex, irony-minded formalism that has dominated modern discourse.

In his quest to piss off the entire world and make himself rich in the process, Flynt developed a bull-headed insistence upon contesting every single lawsuit and obscenity charge that came his way, transforming him into an unlikely canary in the coal mine of First Amendment law.

If the insistence upon a single, polarising question was a miscalculation, then the timescale of the vote amounted to carelessness.