Sentence examples for insisted instead from inspiring English sources

She insisted, instead, on remaining stuck in a netherworld limbo.

They insisted instead that she sign a formal complaint.

Then the colonel abruptly changed his mind, Howard P. Milstein said, and insisted instead on a direct swap.

Briscione insisted instead on reconstruing the vegetables as the substitute for the usual mincemeat and the pork as substitute for the eggplant, ultimately employing half a dozen of the ingredients in a celery-root béchamel that was shockingly tasty.

Allport insisted instead that collective behaviour involves merely a group of people doing what they previously wanted to do but for which they lacked the occasion and the support of like-minded associates.

The literary scholar Tsubouchi Shōyō was led by his readings in European fiction and criticism to reject didacticism as a legitimate purpose of fiction; he insisted instead on its artistic values.

They insist, instead, that governments should borrow the necessary funds.

He insists, instead, that journalists fabricated the story.

Reich insists instead that American consumers, and particularly the middle class, have been buying too little.

We know that Ms Ahmad turned away an open can, insisting instead on a closed one.

Ammar refuted accusations that the film was anti-semitic, insisting instead that it was against fundamentalism.