Sentence examples for general insistence from inspiring English sources

Instead, the book's disparate parts are held together by Bergner's general insistence on the very existence and force of female lust.

This was so far from the case that the general insistence on it came to suggest certain lacunae in the popular understanding of marriage.

That may have more to do with Islam's general insistence on discretion in sexual matters than any specific animosity toward homosexuality, said Feisal Rauf, the imam of the Al-Farah mosque in TriBeCa.

One especially interesting case to which he applied his general insistence on the freedom of religion from state-interference was that of Prussia's Jews.

Democracy, it is held, was causally responsible for the growth of philosophy and science, in the sense that an atmosphere of rational political debate conduced to a more-general insistence on argument and proof.

Donilon, with no military background, is much more political than Jones and sided with the vice-president, Joe Biden, in pushing for as early an exit from Afghanistan as possible and was reluctant to accede to the generals' insistence on sending an extra 30,000 troops this year.

On a snowy night in February, I went there for a meeting of the town board, the main business of which was the Attorney General's insistence that the town take specific steps to repair the consequences of its negligence.

Last year, at the general's insistence, Mr. Bush risked a trip to Pakistan, jangling the nerves of the Secret Service by spending the night in the country presumed to be home to Osama bin Laden.

The newly disclosed emails, details of which were obtained by Associated Press, appeared to support the attorney general's insistence that at that time he was unaware that guns had been allowed to "walk" at the time.

So why am I not reassured by the Secretary General's insistence that there are no references to "Internet governance" in the preparatory documents for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)?

But the generals' past insistence on preserving their political influence has also elicited calls from Washington for an expedited handover of power.