The industry had fought off private lawsuits for 30 years by insisting, in effect, that it knew no more about the hazards of smoking than anybody else did.
Change is likely to come only if the public insists on more public spending -- insisting in effect that the government can make better use of the money than individuals getting cash back in tax cuts and rebates, the Republican preference.
It isn't moral to insist, in effect, on holding them captive to our present economy.
Thus Hayek insists that, in effect, all macroeconomic analysis is incomplete in the absence of "micro" foundations.
Justice Samuel Alito insisted, in his opinion for the Court, that his decision would be very limited in its effect.
American military chiefs expressed regret today for the killing of seven Iraqi women and children at a checkpoint near Najaf, and insisted that procedures are in effect to minimize civilian casualties in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein.
And while Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson concluded that the company had violated antitrust laws and kept "an oppressive thumb" on the competition, Mr. Ballmer in effect insisted that Microsoft's legal and image problems stemmed from the fact that it had never been able to shed its little-guy mentality.
Whilst most institutions follow semester system and fulfil the relevant requirements, a few still insist in annual system.
In effect, they insist that the path of legal, internal reform be kept open.
But his views are by no means shared by all the so-called princes of the church, some of whom are taking a harder line and insisting that such a proposal would, in effect, violate the doctrine on the permanence of marriage.
