Sentence examples for insisted in the second from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump insisted in the second presidential debate Sunday night that a tape of him bragging about sexually assaulting women in 2005 was nothing but "locker room talk" and doesn't represent his attitude toward women.

The EU insisted, in the first phase of negotiations, on turning these airy assurances into solid commitments.

There was, however, a catch in this argument, or so I insisted in the third year of my analysis, over several sessions and at great length.

I never was a woman senator," Smith insisted in the first of many interviews with Sherman before she died in 1995 at 97.

"We're good people — we're good people," Portia insists in the second episode of the new season, trying to soothe herself after the caper curdles.

Al Groh insisted in the week before his first game as a National Football League head coach that he would feel no extra ache in his stomach.

In fact, they have been behind the curve ever since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first insisted in the spring of 2007 that the subprime crisis would remain "contained".

Hobbes's near descendant, John Locke, insisted in his Second Treatise of Government that the state of nature was indeed to be preferred to subjection to the arbitrary power of an absolute sovereign.

North Korea is promoting peace on the Korean peninsula from a position of strength, not weakness, the country's state media has insisted in its first pronouncement on the planned meetings between Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and President Moon of South Korea.

Certainly not a nation that insists, even in the second decade of the third millennium, on occupying another nation".

It put North Korea on record as saying that it could not accept the main goals President Bush and his negotiators have insisted on in the first two rounds of talks.