Sentence examples for ideal insisting from inspiring English sources

Basil, bishop of Caesarea Cappadociae (370 379), rejected the hermetic ideal, insisting on communities with a rule safeguarding the bishop's authority and with concrete acts of service to perform (e.g., hospital work and teaching).

He never retreated from those ideals, however, insisting on a strong, "progressive" federal government to protect the vulnerable and expand economic opportunity, while asserting that history would prove him correct in his opposing not only what he called "the tragically mistaken American war in Vietnam" but also the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

One might concede to the Republic its psychology, concede the possibility of the ideal city, and nevertheless insist that the ideal city is so unlikely to come about as to be merely fanciful.

The ideal, everyone involved insists, is for one format to emerge as the winner so costs can be kept to a minimum.

He is believed to consider the Northern Irishman as an ideal candidate, although insisted "There were no discussions with other managers" after Chris Hughton was relieved of his duties as manager.

Once you come down from the high-flying ideals, it boils down to someone insisting on his right to be cruel to someone.

Schumer, offstage, was in the ideal Washington position, controlling the flow of events while insisting that he held no real power at all.

Wollstonecraft was so determined to wipe sexuality from her picture of the ideal woman that she ended up foregrounding it by insisting upon its absence.

Confucius himself had denied that he was an innovator, insisting that he only sought to transmit the ideals of the past.

The first and easiest way to do it was the way it's usually done: by insisting that erotic and selfish love provided a glimpse of ideal love — "eros" became "agape".

That was followed by reports that Cruyff and president Joan Laporta had discussed bringing in Mourinho as the ideal man to take over the side next season, with the Dutchman insisting on his signing.