He was insistent in understating his achievements, but visitors to Tate Modern and Tate Britain will always owe so much to this man who made his life and success in America, but who never forgot his roots in Britain.
Colonel Lindbergh, who was broken-hearted at the indignity his plane suffered when stowed away and forced to cross the Atlantic as freight, is insistent in his desire to fly his own machine to New York.
He was insistent in 2008, and is still is, that he was devoted to preserving a sense of order about Wall Street; despite the widespread questioning of banks' stability – and indeed, the certainty that some were nearly insolvent – Geithner insisted that no contracts would be broken, no old rules would be contravened.
The situations aren't equal: Private Manning may not have had the same clear-cut whistle-blower's motivation that Mr. Ellsberg had as an antiwar activist, and some are insistent in portraying him as a mentally unstable traitor to his military vows.
He is insistent, in the face of strenuous Democratic opposition, that his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts should be made permanent, which would cost nearly a trillion dollars over the next five years.To cut spending, Mr Bush slashes a range of government-run domestic programmes, including a scheme that trains paediatric specialists.
Steven Spielberg allegedly pulled out of directing the picture after British author JK Rowling objected to his plans to cast The Sixth Sense star Haley Joel Osment in the lead, while Warner Bros have been insistent in their assurances that their adaptation will remain true to the book's British roots (see last week's story).
Johson was insistent in his regular column for the Daily Telegraph that Taylor had little to say sorry for, asking: "What are we all – a bunch of Islamist maniacs who think any representation of the human form is an offence against God?
While recording billions in losses in his own right, Mr. Arpey was insistent in attempting to push through hundreds of millions in executive bonuses.
Kevin O'Leary especially was insistent in talking about why the powerful incumbent textbook publishers would never let this happen — largely informed by his years of negotiation and frustration with those publishers.
