France, gearing up for a tactical presidential vote against neo-fascist Marine Le Pen, is not in a comfortable position to lecture Britain on racism, and when I met good Madame Tilman on the stairs, I found myself insisting that for every attack on Poles or other Europeans in broken, Brexit Britain, there were a dozen bunches of flowers, missives of solidarity.
During stops in Paris and London this week, Secretary of State John Kerry found himself insisting that the United States was not facing a growing rift with oil-rich Saudi Arabia, whose emissaries have described strains over American policy on Egypt, Iran and Syria.
The investigators said they found officials insisting that rather than reflecting racial bias from law enforcement, the disproportionate action against African Americans was instead due to a pervasive lack of "personal responsibility" among "certain segments" of the community.
Yet Cellino was apparently "apoplectic" and "foaming at the mouth" when he found out, insisting with wonderful sporting etiquette that Leeds should have applied their own rules and shown no mercy.
In July 1998, a Congressional commission on missile defense that he led issued a report foreshadowing the Iraq intelligence debacle: Rumsfeld hectored and dismissed witnesses "whose information he found unpalatable," insisting on worst-case scenarios.
One member of the committee, Mr Francis Wayne, an accountant, resigned early in its proceedings when he found some members insisting on universal compulsion in industrial policy.
Citing one of his mentors, he says, "In fact, at the height of the mode for social history in the Annales style, Plumb could be found insisting on the power of speech-acts to shake and shape the destiny of communities and nations".
On this particular occasion I found them both insisting -- surprisingly -- that if I wanted to understand the Russian Revolution, I had to read Maxim Gorky's Mother.
Baer might find Tony insisting on a spot of off-season fishing on his boat.
But it's odd to find Byrne insisting that Austen shared the "paternalistic Christian Toryism" of her clan.
However, the Russian manufacturer had earlier denied that any such fragments were found, and insisted an older Buk model was used, one that was no longer in service in the Russian armed forces.
