Sentence examples for insisted knowing from inspiring English sources

"If I see them rolling their eyes, I'm going to stop talking," Wadley insisted, knowing full well that Chaney hasn't stopped yet.

"I'm just a bad boy gone clean," he insists, knowing that even a non-thug still has to plug his record label.

But the 50s were also about appearances: this very idyll masked warring agendas – things people refused to know and other, often incorrect, things they insisted on knowing.

Andre insisted on knowing why we had been stopped.

(Given its size, Jones insisted on knowing its source).

The commission could have insisted on knowing before approving the agreement on access charges.

But the police insisted on knowing the identities of everyone in the hall.

Israel, under Prime Minister Ehud Barak, has insisted on knowing what kind of peace it will obtain before it agrees unilaterally to a withdrawal.

The students insisted on knowing the name, but all he could remember of the title was that it was an abstract noun.

Mora and Rosen recently had a falling out, after Mora said that a team that drafts Rosen would need to keep him intellectually stimulated — that, as a player, Rosen always insisted on knowing why.

He was "impressed" with the panel's thoroughness, and "upset" that there seemed to be no system of checks and balances, that news executives neither insisted on knowing Mary Mapes's sources nor vetted the experts.