Theodore Kaczynski had been fighting an increasingly futile battle to, in effect, insist on his sanity.
He begins by rejecting cause and effect, insisting that the Immigration Act neither led Biggers to write about Chan nor created an audience for him.
As for Elster, he explicitly relies more directly on a multiplier effect, insisting that "a small group of impartially minded individuals might induce many others to mimic their impartiality out of self-interest" (Elster 1995, 249).
There's more going on here than mere widespread misconceptions that spread through the culture, those who believe in the Effect insist.
Mills says he even had to get the sound people to strip many of the "atmos" effects, insisting on a quiet realism.
Scottish Fuels, which is responsible for distributing petrol and diesel to the islands, has strongly refuted any suggestion the company had been seeking to boost profits ahead of the discount coming into effect, and insisted that any increase merely reflected the rising worldwide price of fuel.
Cinderella hoped it would be transformed into a magic coach, but, on principle eschewing any gimmickry or unnatural special effects, Lars insisted that she simply stand on the pumpkin and use it as a makeshift "walking ball" to propel herself to the palace.
In effect, they insist that the path of legal, internal reform be kept open.
But the effect of insisting that other countries meet our standards before we trade with them would be, as you must know, devastating.
On the contrary, the memories, hardly longer than glimpses, will often simply conclude a scene or a sequence: a disquieting structural effect which insists on the memory's equal status with present reality.
