"The stream is quite clear, the insistence that black life was more precious than it was treated as in America.
The ayatollah's secular power is clear: his insistence on direct elections for a transitional national assembly before Iraqi sovereignty in June drew up to 100,000 supporters to Baghdad's streets on Monday and left the Bush administration scrambling to salvage plans for a caucus-style selection.
Nevertheless, his political and cultural leanings seem clear, and his insistence on objectivity can seem disingenuous.
The vote also made clear Congress's insistence on transparency from a historically secretive institution that has made extraordinary interventions in the market since 2008.
"Incendies" demonstrated Mr. Villeneuve's ability to hold onto a humanist perspective in the face of extreme inhumanity, and "Polytechnique," though it relies less on dramatic contrivances, is similarly clear in its insistence that decency is ultimately stronger than barbarism.
It should be noted that Canada has always been clear about its insistence on a fiscal correction for Greece but has stressed that, on the other hand, economic development must take place as well.
To be clear, Berlin's insistence on austerity is not a "counter-weight" to the periphery's problems- - it is the backbreaking weight Berlin has forced on the necks of Europeans that has brought misery to tens of millions of Europeans for no positive purpose.
Europe's politicians have created a system for making loans to prevent illiquid governments from defaulting in the short term, while simultaneously making clear (at Germany's insistence) that in the medium term insolvent countries should have their debts restructured.
When you read Pistorius's statement it seems pretty clear that his repeated insistence that he was shouting out was his means – under legal instruction, no doubt – of countering the witnesses who claimed to have heard a woman's screaming voice before the shots were fired.
His insistence on clear, plain, unitary, absolute principle did not cut against the Brennan view.
