Sentence examples for insist against from inspiring English sources

Yet some people still insist, against all logic, on owning a car.

They insist against logic and evidence that private lenders will voluntarily participate in refinancing Greek debt.

There is a stereotyped image of the Andes showing poverty against a background of bleak, unproductive mountains, where millions insist, against all apparent logic, on living at 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) or more above sea level.

We meet unfortunates with an intense desire to have their own healthy limbs amputated, others who are paralyzed on one side but insist against all evidence that they are not, and, in Cotard's syndrome, people who sincerely believe they are dead.

He somehow manages to sift his way through the diplomatic debris and recover Franklin's exquisite sense of the competing objectives among the American, British and French delegations, all the while recognizing that John Adams and John Jay were correct to insist, against Franklin's instincts, on a separate bargain with the British that left the French marooned and unrewarded.

The first step is to insist, against Aristotle and his followers, that statements about the future, no less than those concerning the present and the past, are timelessly true or false.

Urrutia Lacroix insists, against later post-Pinochet accusations, that he was only an occasional visitor.

They got to the museum — where she insisted, against his protests, on a generous tip — and parted ways.

Even President Sarkozy insisted, against all protocol, on accompanying her to one of her first euro-group finance ministers' meetings.

Even odder, Hart insists against all available evidence that "almost everyone in Washington knew" about the secret deal.

Wootton also insists, against the grain of contemporary academia, that single observed facts, what he calls "killer facts," really did polish off antique authorities.