Sentence examples for for an insistence from inspiring English sources

In his 1999 book "A Charge to Keep," George W. Bush, who was then the governor, described Mr. Sadler as "a scrappy and fiercely independent trial lawyer, stubborn and known for an insistence on doing things his way".

Wise's growing reputation for an insistence upon accuracy and realism was epitomized in the memorable barroom brawl between leading actors Robert Mitchum and Robert Preston in the moody film-noirish western Blood on the Moon (1948).

Indeed, through the impress of "personalism," Lotze's thought handed down through Bowne and Brightman appears to have imposed upon Martin Luther King the conception of a personal god and the metaphysical underpinnings for an insistence upon the "dignity and worth" of all "human personality".

Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach".

Gibran at one time had hoped to be a playwright, and "Jesus" shows a gift for characterization and "voice" — an insistence, for the moment, on one speaker's point of view — that saves the book from his habitual gassiness.

His book has only one small but annoying flaw: a tin ear for dialect, but an insistence on using it.

At times he has wobbled along it, weaving between calls for order and an insistence that the right of assembly must be preserved.

Her analysis of Eichmann was a demand for individual responsibility, an insistence on the need constantly to exercise personal choice, whatever society might dictate.

They are a living thing, a call to action, a roadmap for citizenship and an insistence in the capacity of free men and women to shape our own destiny.

Yet the best Draghi had to offer was a limp promise that Cyprus would not be the template for future bailouts, an insistence – familiar to British voters – that there is "no Plan B", and a few hints that the ECB might, just possibly, consider a rate cut in the coming months.

American terms for a political settlement will probably be an insistence that, for the time being, there be 2 separate states in Vietnam with approximately the 1954 boundary.