Sentence examples for insist on ordering from inspiring English sources

I, for one, still insist on ordering a "small" coffee, not a "tall," and on shutting out most of the 24/7 sales messages that attempt to invade my personal space.

If you insist on ordering an entree as well as tapas, the salmon en panela is a reliable choice — a filet of caramelized salmon graced with a pear-carrot sauce and served over a hash of wild mushrooms and asparagus.

If Lee happens to go into the bakery business, Ashers could insist on ordering a cake from him with the words "support heterosexual marriage" (or, presumably, "reject gay marriage").

In his Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke is eloquent when he explains how this parceling out of the world into two distinct spheres — a private sphere and a public sphere — will put an end to the violence that is likely to occur when religious imperatives stray from their proper home in the heart and the chapel (or mosque or synagogue) and insist on ordering every aspect of life.

But if you still insist on ordering that pizza and finally making a pass at your HR manager's daughter at least read how he does it first.

Take the girl out to a nice meal, and call the restaurant in advance to make sure that the chef can write "Will you go to prom with me?" or "Prom?" in icing on the dessert that you'll insist on ordering.

Though his head falls regularly to one side and his eyes will sometimes go dead and absent, he insists on ordering chateaubriand for breakfast in a voice that suggests God as a gourmand.

Isadora Duncan came when she was broke and insisted on ordering Champagne.

The manipulative Francis reverts to bossing his brothers, insisting on ordering their food and carrying their passports.

Although I was sated with food and wine, I insisted on ordering tea, if only to satisfy my curiosity.

This is from Casino Royale: Bond insisted on ordering Leiter's Haig-and-Haig "on the rocks" and then he looked carefully at the barman.