Some dislike his style, but Humphrys' direct and dogged insistence on answers was absolutely justified, and good to hear.
Earlier, in Europe, Deila's team were embarrassing in a direct contradiction to any insistence of improvement.
And Microsoft's hurried and belated entry into the gaming business in 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox, and its insistence on direct control over its online-gaming service, prompted widespread scepticism.
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.
12 April: In a surprise move, North Korea signals it may be ready to end its insistence on direct talks with the US, announcing that "if the US is ready to make a bold switchover in its Korea policy for a settlement of the nuclear issue, [North Korea] will not stick to any particular dialogue format".
As well as Withnail, Robinson is best known for writing the BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated The Killing Fields in 1984, and for writing and directing – at Depp's insistence – The Rum Diary in 2011.
I always say the principle of direct action is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free".
The filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, in her 1987 memoir, confirmed that Harlan had told her of Goebbels's insistence that he direct the film and of his ardent desire to get out of the project.
The play's first act has always been Maggie's, an aria of insistence and supplication directed at Brick, who, having broken his leg, is a captive audience.
Abbott's insistence that Obama's "direct action" policy is the equivalent to his own would be the public policy and diplomatic equivalent of Twitter-trolling if it weren't so serious.
