Sentence examples for firm insistence from inspiring English sources

This is what impresses me about Obama – his firm insistence that he's right at home.

Nor did the figures seem to reflect Doolittle's firm insistence that all federally sponsored colonization be voluntary.

And so, at last, is a firm insistence: we are on a mental continuum with pheasants and peacocks.

At my dad's gentle but firm insistence, we wrapped my Flossie in tissue paper and placed her high on a shelf in my bedroom closet.

There is now firm insistence that "Han," actually one of several ethnonyms for "Chinese," refers to only one of the Chinese nationalities.

Using the chants as a basis for dancing, yet without duplicating their firm insistence choreographically, Mr. King devised mercurial sequences for 16 of the company's 20 members.

Prising it off will take firmer insistence on real disarmament than America, China and the rest have lately been able to muster.

No, it was the firm's insistence on pushing ahead with the online training system that led to the mess, countered the National Assessment Agency.

After grumbles from (mainly Wellcome) scientists who disliked the new firm's insistence that all research needed clear commercial applications, a lot of the dreamier types were persuaded to quit.

"We have said for weeks now that there would be additional departures, both at the firm's insistence and from professionals who didn't feel they fit in with the new structure of the firm," the firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

But Hollande has been firm in his insistence that something must be done in Mali.