Sentence examples for insisted for a from inspiring English sources

But Franklin, focusing on the A form, insisted for a long time that DNA was not a helix.

Da Ponte insisted for a long time on having this as his work's main title, and it was how he referred to it throughout his memoirs.

India has insisted, for a start, that Pakistan hand over 20 people, including Mr Lakhvi, who it suspects of carrying out a range of atrocities on its territory, including several in Mumbai.

And Powell's career is revived, even though he had somewhat blithely insisted for a while that he was retired from writing, when in fact he was merely retired from publishing.

But is it really possible, as the Felsteads insist, for a person to have memories "implanted" by a therapist?

While National City had been insisting for a while that its balance sheet was perfectly healthy, investors and customers had grown wary of it, and there was considerable speculation that it was going to go under.

Consider the title he conjured up (with my help, he modestly insists) for a Reporter at Large piece I wrote about John Lennon's legal battle against the Nixon Administration's attempt to deport him.

The 33% price cut agreed between Rio Tinto and Nippon Steel, as a result, put pressure on Chinese steelmakers led by Baosteel which have been insisting for a 40%-50 40%-50tion.

As "American Idol" has been insisting for a few years now: vocals aren't everything -- it's the whole package that counts.

Relational biologists describe logical entailments in their mathematical work that represent entailments from the physical world and insist, for a correct modelling relation to be obtained, that these entailments must occur in the model.

The report on the role of women in industry summarizes some of these achievements, while insisting for a stricter application of the principle of equality.