Sentence examples for insisted for several from inspiring English sources

Indeed, when Jean-Pierre Mustier, chief executive of Société Générale's corporate and investment banking division, called in Mr. Kerviel for questioning on Jan . 19 the day after the trader's faulty positions were discovered, Mr. Kerviel insisted for several hours that rather than engaging in wrongdoing, he had instead invented a new kind of trade that would make the bank money.

The Minister of Health of Indonesia, Dr. Siti Supari, has insisted for several years that it is not the duty of her country to share samples of H5N1 bird flu viruses that emerged there, and now she's added a host of other viruses to the list of things she will not share. .

It was not clear what caused Mr. Saleh to change his mind, nor why he had chosen to insist for several days that the blast was an accident when anybody who looked out at the Cole from the Aden harborside saw that the metal plates of the ship were buckled inward by the blast.

Maybe the sociologists who have been insisting for several decades regarding the alleged blurry border between risk assessment and management are obtaining the undesired effect of encouraging the politicization of risk assessment?

Mr. Kohl has acknowledged accepting undeclared party contributions between 1993 and 1998 but has denied he ever exchanged favors for the money and insisted in several hearings that he could not name the donors because he had promised he would not.

"I love dance," Mr. Bel insisted at several points.

Mr. Bloomberg has become less intransigent on insisting for abolition of the board since a meeting with Mr. Silver for several hours on Sunday.

Michael Steiner, the chief diplomatic adviser to Mr. Schroder, insisted several times today that Germany was acting for Europe in seeking a "strategic partnership" with Mr. Putin's Russia.

Dinning denied being a thief and insisted several people in the county would vouch for his good character.

This year, England's senior manager Roy Hodgson insisted on having several players with him who are still eligible for the Under-21s.

Aguilar insisted several times that he didn't shoot anybody.