Sentence examples for insist strongly from inspiring English sources

Obama administration officials would not confirm the existence of such a report, and, in any case, continue to insist strongly that Iran is not on the verge of achieving a weapon.

It all began with a Franco-Russian dispute over a grotto in Bethlehem, traditionally revered as birthplace of the Prince of Peace.Since the mid-18th century, Orthodox Russia had been citing treaties to insist strongly on its role as the protector of its co-religionists, and of Christian holy places, under the Ottoman sultan's rule.

Western defence chiefs will insist strongly on nailing down the objectives of a bombing campaign as precisely as possible, and that will not be easy.At least notionally, western governments condemn the KLA and reject its aim of detaching Kosovo from Serbia, fearing that the Albanian bit of Macedonia would follow suit.

But it's precisely because the pain often cannot be explained, psychologists say, that sufferers may insist strongly on taking various diagnostic tests, regardless of their usefulness.

Initially, the executive team did not insist strongly on the need to rationalize diagnostic and therapeutic behavior because of the anticipated resistance from hospital-based medical doctors.

He also insisted strongly that Labour had no plans to raise VAT.

Both British and American officials insisted strongly that the resumption of atmospheric testing was not necessarily imminent.

Geoffroy St. Hilaire has insisted strongly on the high importance of relative connexion in homologous organs: the parts may change to almost any extent in form and size, and yet they always remain connected together in the same order.

Why does Dimon insist so strongly on her being "highly ethical"?

I accompanied a woman to the neurology hospital in Queen Square to visit her son who was in a coma and had to insist very strongly that the staff let her in; she was so upset at being told that no one could enter.

Author's response: Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved, I could not insist more strongly on this point.