Sentence examples for insisted colleagues from inspiring English sources

Even some activists, who long insisted colleagues chant "peaceful!" at their protests, warned of the shape any change might take.

Talent executives insist colleagues make "people" their priority or risk an exodus of the best and brightest.

"This," he insisted to colleagues, "is the best drug we're going to get".

But giving evidence, he insisted his colleagues had known about the umbrella, and said UBS bosses placed him under enormous pressure to increase profits, whatever the means.

Seventy-four-years old at the time, he was known for his tireless work ethic and youthfulness; for decades he had jokingly insisted to colleagues that he was a mere 47.

"He's a classic old-time Tory paternalist," insisted a colleague, "with noblesse oblige to the poor".

A Republican vote against extending the nation's borrowing authority would risk a financial-market meltdown, she insisted; her colleague replied that the risks were justified.

Speaking outside the hospital on Friday, another UKIP MEP, Nathan Gill insisted his colleague was in "good form" and there was no danger to his health even though "it was at one stage touch and go".

Both emotionally and intellectually, he is fiercely committed to the union as a source of strength for both Scotland and Britain, insist Conservative colleagues who have discussed the question with him.

Similar strategies While Griffiths insists his colleagues in Northumberland are more interested in his clinical input than in debating the latest nuance in national policy he does, nevertheless, concede that the latest policy changes have both supporters and detractors.

The investigation was dropped in 1953 when his colleagues insisted that any leftwing sympathies had disappeared.