Sentence examples for in our insistence from inspiring English sources

And there is something very colonial in our insistence on keeping it".

The challenge is to be relentless in our insistence in calling out lies and misinformation.

Yet in our insistence that men are more than elaborately engineered gamete vectors, we neglect the marvels of their elaborately engineered gametes.

"Once again, the court has backed us up in our insistence that this investigation be done in a professional and impartial manner," said Beth Stone, a spokeswoman for Mr. Reilly.

We must be unassailable in our insistence that ideas most fully thrive and grow when they are open to challenge.

We're actually "exceptional" only in our blindness to the truth, in our insistence that we keep our eyes shut tight to the light.

His book scrutinizes colony-collapse disorder, a syndrome affecting honeybees that wiped out thirty per cent of hives in the U.S. in 2007 and has wiped out thirty-six per cent so far in 2008, and catalogues the ways in which our insistence on a seasonally sanitized outdoors may be causing long-term damage.

In our smug insistence that race is no longer a factor in our society, we are continually brought up short by the old code words and disguised prejudice of a tribalism beneath the thin surface of our "civilized" selves.

But it's the general lowering of standards inherent in our continuing insistence on cheap burgers, wherever they might come from and however bad they taste; the collective, post-ironic shrug we've come to give each other as we knowingly dig into something that tastes, at best, like cardboard and soured onion, that's hurting us.

Our objective in this campaign is and must be the equivalent of our insistence in World War II on "unconditional surrender," and not of our mushy attempt in Vietnam to achieve "containment".

Political reconciliation in Iraq will occur, but not at our insistence or in ways that meet our benchmarks.