Sentence examples for i first insisted from inspiring English sources

"I may not be less ignorant of nude dancing than I was nine years ago," Justice Souter said, "but after many subsequent occasions to think further about the needs of the First Amendment, I have come to believe that a government must toe the mark more carefully than I first insisted".

Cumberbatch resisted at first, insisting, "I'm really just an actor".

When I first came to America, some still insisted to call Muhammad "Cassius Clay".

For the first time, I insisted on winning not for my own sake but for people around me.

"No, I'm not," I insisted.

In fact, when I directed my first movie, "Grim Reaper," I insisted on doing my first interview in French.

I grew up in New York and was such a Yankee fan that in the fifth grade I insisted on being called Allie because of the great pitcher.

I encouraged her to let a doctor assuage her fears, which he did the next morning, but first she insisted I tell her if I'd slept with anyone else.

At first, of course, I instinctively insisted I had no idea.

At first he insisted I was a German but after a while he prodded me on and I moved on a few more feet snakewise before being told to turn and move over to the staircase through the vulnerable side wide open to any sniper who might have been on the Foreign Ministry roof.

Of course, I insisted on first treating the burn, as a kind of quid pro quo.