Sentence examples for extreme insistence from inspiring English sources

Historians and anthropologists have hypothesized that this extreme insistence on shared power was a reaction to the fall of earlier, hierarchical Mississippian chiefdoms, which had ruled much of North America from about 700 to 1600 A.D. Mississippian chiefs could be brutal.

At the same time, their extreme insistence on policy purity ended up also driving moderates like Olympia Snowe clear out of the party -- and consequently, a Republican majority out of the Senate.

At an extreme, however, insistence on leaving all to Amida's salvific activity led to forms of antinomianism, in which even moral restraint was viewed as the impulse to deny the fact of one's cravings and affirm one's own goodness.

The most distinctive features of his thought seem to have been an extreme spiritualism, an insistence, even sharper than that of Plotinus, on the "flight from the body" and more philosophically important a greater sympathy with the less sharply defined vertical hierarchies of the Platonists who had preceded Plotinus.

Many see Hobsbawm's failed faith as setting the pessimistic tone of The Age of Extremes, with its insistence on the built-in defects of capitalism.

In 2005, despite Nelson Mandela's insistence that extreme poverty could be overcome just like slavery and apartheid, many observers – and even some campaigners – assumed it was an unreachable pipedream.

Wouldn't the second-hottest box-office star have done as well, and been more plausible than such a lofty winner, in this poor world of losers stuck in less-pleasantvilles? Rushdie himself well knows, after all, what a cumbersome handicap celebrity can become, and his seeming insistence on extreme glamour for his characters limits his room for maneuver within fiction's curious democracy.

McCullough claims that Adams's "outbursts of temper" occurred only in "private confrontations" and plays down or explains away instances of extreme public behavior (his strange insistence that Washington be called "His Majesty the President," his predawn flight from Washington on Jefferson's inaugural day).

So are the extremes to which Kincaid takes his insistence that madness comes from the excess of images that contemporary society drums into us.

His insistence on representing ugly extremes (incest, rape, murder) can be especially wearisome, coming across as weak bids to shock his audience (épater la bourgeoisie, as the French poets once said), which, already expecting (perhaps eagerly) a Gaspar Noé freakout, is unlikely to have its world genuinely rocked.

Their rise has been fuelled by two crucial factors - their claim to "tell it like it is" and their insistence that their views are not extreme.