Sentence examples for insisted on confronting from inspiring English sources

Before long, however, the majority of theologians confronted this small school with the demands of classic Christian dogma, which insisted on confronting divine transcendence in any assertions about Jesus Christ.

Students and, in increasing numbers, members of the faculty insisted on confronting the building's history by retaining its original name, the "IG Farben Building".

The echo flavours the scene with a cynical nausea, and the agony of Bulger's dying son returns when Whitey insists on confronting Connolly's wife Marianne (Julianne Nicholson) who has been pretending to be ill so as not to socialise with him.

She insisted on transcending labels.

Democrats insist on one.

And like so many other young people like her, she's no longer waiting for a society that insists on postponing confronting the problem that will define her and future generations: climate disruption.

It was not exactly the showcase that more ambitious violinists might insist on, but here an ungrateful part was confronted with considerable control and stamina.

At times sounding somewhat testy, he insisted on Monday that his strategy for confronting the miliant group - however unpopular it may be - was working.

Confronted by an international outcry, Aussaresses insisted on the rightness of his actions.

When first confronted with this idea, I was concerned that mechanically imprinted screens, which the architect insisted on calling "tapestries," would resemble large billboards.

He insisted on finishing.