Sentence examples for been insisted from inspiring English sources
verb
To hold up a claim emphatically.
- The defendant insisted on his innocence.
Writer was told that Duarte's elevation had been insisted on by Wash., which wanted a civilian head of state.
The moratoruim was the key element in the restructuring of the city's debt which had been insisted upon in Nov. 1975 by Pres.
The words have been insisted upon by those who voted against the deal, surely in an attempt to avoid accusations of warmongering.
The court held, unanimously, that the debt was subject to this act, and, in delivering the opinion of the court, Mr. Justice Swayne said: 'But it has been insisted that the act of 1864 was intended to be administered only in the federal courts, and that it has no application to cases pending in the courts of the state.
I must make it clear to the house that I wasn't asked the question of whether consent should be given or whether a warrant should have been insisted on," he says.
"I have been told that the police did not explain, as they are required to do, that the serjeant was not obliged to consent or that a warrant could have been insisted on," Martin told MPs yesterday.
They have been insisting on government reparations to individuals.
Proper English was insisted upon.
Fairtrade should be insisted upon.
Rest assured it will be, insisted Ms. Ader.
