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The men had not planned on marrying on Day 1, Mr. Pisciotta said, but their young children had been insistent.

I had been insistent on going to Northeastern for so long that I felt like I was playing it safe in going to Georgia.

There were suggestions that police had always been reluctant to arrest a man who had spent three years in Guantánamo without charge, but that MI5 had been insistent.

They said Pentagon officials had been insistent that the Navy needed the bombing range for training exercises, even though Justice Department officials have said another military-style assault would provoke another avalanche of criticism of the Clinton administration.

Speaking of the Iraq case, Mr. McConnell said recently: "The nation and the nation's leadership probably would have been better served if we had been insistent, absolutely insistent upon a higher level of integrity".

Lamb had been insistent that Page 3 should not be sleazy (his deputy Bernard Shrimsley once making the notable retouching instruction: "Nipples too fantastic – make nipples less fantastic"), and he gave final say over publication of each day's photo to the women's editor, Joyce Hopkirk.

Hartnett went on: "Amyas has been insistent that Andrew Park tackles the cases one at a time.

"We've been insistent this week that we wanted to redouble the positive," Gove said.

The Palestinians have been insistent that there can be no talks without a settlement freeze.

Many European allies have been insistent that the United States share the risks of Balkan operations.

But even as the film theorists have colonised her, Akerman has been insistent on going her own way.