Sentence examples for insisted lay from inspiring English sources

The region's problems, he insisted, lay in the region more than in Moscow, Washington or the colonial past.

Responsibility for the defeat, she insisted, lay with the liberal wing of the Party, which had refused to abide by the "grassroots" choice: "Like spoiled children, they took their marbles and went home".

Motes's integrity, she insisted, lay not in his escaping from "the ragged figure" of Jesus, "who moves from tree to tree in the back of his mind," but "in his not being able to".

More than a century later, Tom Loggia, Mr. Wilkins's great-grandnephew, is continuing the family quest to seek out and memorialize a cemetery that he steadfastly insists lies unmarked on the land.

The blame, it insists, lies with those who allowed the animals to escape in the first place: "Had the keepers of these animals fulfilled their responsibility and prevented their escape, we would not be in this position".

The source of the problem, he insists, lies in the operating systems, few of which were built with security in mind.To that end, a number of firms that supply network operating systems, notably Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, have launched initiatives aimed at improving their security.

The answer, he insists, lies in good governance, strong management and better people running the show.

But the Israeli government insisted responsibility lay with the Palestinian leadership.

Ali's family insisted he lay there for an hour, but there are reasons to doubt it.

He looked disturbed and insisted we lie head to toe.

I had the same trouble, while staying with a friend in Kyoto, when I insisted on lying down after lunch.