Sentence examples for hadn't insisted from inspiring English sources

Debt relief in Africa "wouldn't have happened if she hadn't insisted I meet Bono and persevered on this issue," says Mr. Summers.

But he also thought that designing "keep off the wall" signs at the memorial might have gone quicker if Ms. Huxley hadn't insisted on being involved.

If her husband hadn't insisted, Ms. Hughes says, she might have waited to make that phone call, and waiting can make preeclampsia harder to treat, or even, in rare cases, deadly.

I had been wrong to pass it and if the external examiner hadn't insisted on dropping the grade, the student would have been denied the opportunity to try again.

"Who needs a second house?" When I asked why she hadn't insisted on being on the Hearst board in New York, she said: "Why would I want to be on the board?

But Yates knows that many people do blame him: he didn't intervene forcefully enough in his wife's treatment, hadn't insisted on outside day care and, worst of all, had fathered a fifth child when Andrea was at risk for postpartum psychosis.

And so they might have done, if the Chinese had not insisted they owned the territory.

If the Fed had not insisted on confidentiality, that report would have been made public.

Some were surprised that he had not insisted on a bigger role.

If he had not insisted on playing it personally safe, another Democrat would easily have won his vacated Connecticut seat.

Mrs. Wynn said there never would have been a problem if the Troxels had not insisted on extended visits.