Livingstone personally made the Shard possible by insisting Transport for London lease 10 floors, transforming the, up until then, fragile finances for the project.
Once that's agreed, the next step would be to cut the overall size of the Lords by insisting that for every new peer in, two old ones should leave.
Moreover, the sort of constructive dialogue on a wide range of issues that the leaders of both countries claim they want would be off before it had started.So much to loseFor once, rather than starting out by insisting that for China to save face and "win", everyone else must lose, China would have done better to reflect on the stake it has in its broader relations with America.
In 1950, Diana travelled with Yehudi to South Africa, where he struck a blow for the anti-apartheid cause by insisting on playing for black audiences.
Lindsay has sacrificed tranquillity by insisting on action for change.
When my father and I were booking our tickets, a few weeks earlier, he had surprised me by insisting on paying for one of the more expensive cabins.
In an interview with Newsweek that month, Dr. Truman said the left-wing group Students for a Democratic Society, led by Mark Rudd, a 20-year-old junior, had forced the administration's hand by insisting on amnesty for the protesters.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has complicated the Democrats' position this year by insisting on running for re-election in Connecticut, where he is almost certain to win, at the same time he is the Democratic candidate for vice president.
Mohists attempted to regiment the debate by insisting on fastandards for interpreting guiding language.
"The government is willing to jeopardize a massive network of hospitals, schools, and social services by insisting they provide for services they find objectionable," Bishop Lawrence Persico of Erie, Pa., said in October as his diocese filed suit against the mandate.
