Sentence examples for insisted just the from inspiring English sources

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It was never that, he insisted, just "the Roosevelt Cottage on Dutchess Hill".

Harbor's Edge had for months insisted just the opposite, maintaining that state regulations had tied its hands and forced the new policy.

Grief-stricken, the father tried the usual cant of consolation: he listened to sermons, he read inspirational poetry; Nathan, he told himself, died for a great cause, he had "died happily," he was waiting, as the preachers insisted, "just the other side of the veil".

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He's not going to carpet-bomb cities, he insists, just the Islamic State.

There's no tunnel beneath the shop, she insists, "just the store room" - but it's "definitely haunted.

But they continually insist just the opposite, pleased to point out what they view as proof that his fiction is nonfiction, that it will tell us about the man himself and his relations with those around him.

"One may say: 'Well, of course, he's so old he's stopped having any feelings.' Not true, I'll say!" He would have been, he insists, just the same 50 years ago.

Women, enamored of fashion but without access to personal stylists or inflated wardrobe budgets, insist just the same on dressing their newborns like modern infantas or, likelier still, Lilliputian versions of themselves.

On the flip side, others insist just the opposite: that.WEB is archaic since an increasing emphasis is being placed on the mobile market.

Nick Clegg, whose party sat by and watched Cameron do things in his first term that Thatcher could only have dreamed of, insisted just before the election that the coalition had been centrist, not rightwing.

It upheld democracy, some insisted, just not the Brotherhood's version of it.

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