(A second such program never paid out most of its money, because Republicans insisted on defunding it).
He denied that the main Kabul-Kandahar road-building venture, a pet project of his, had been delayed because of security concerns, insisting that the only holdups had been logistical, pending the arrival of equipment.
A hotel restaurant in New Zealand has banned Lycra cycling shorts because of "unsightly" bulges, insisting that customers wear trousers.
Mukhriz Mahathir — Mahathir's son and an UMNO Youth leader — defended UMNO's actions because of economic disparities, insisting that "As long as that remains, there will always be people to champion each race to equalise things".
It's art "because of the subject matter," Mr. Toth insisted.
According to the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the censors in charge of enforcing the Production Code wrangled with Hitchcock because some of them insisted they could see one of Leigh's breasts.
"Congressional Republicans must take the bulk of the responsibility because they insisted that supposed out-of-control federal spending was our paramount economic problem, despite stagnant wages, the glaring scarcity of jobs and the glaring lack of out-of-control spending.
Kierkegaard interprets Abrahamic faith as agreeing with Hegel and Marx about this historical finitude of reason, and, precisely because of this, he insists that the voice of God is an authority that is higher than the rationality of either the current establishment (Hegel) or the revolution (Marx).
Its sponsor, Ken Livingstone, always on the far left of the party, was thrown out of it because he insisted, against the prime minister's wishes, on standing as mayor of London.
WASHINGTON – Taxpayers are now picking up most of Donald Trump's air travel costs, unnecessarily spending millions of dollars because he insists on flying aboard his luxury 757 instead of a practical plane.
