Sentence examples for insisted on interpreting from inspiring English sources
Kartēr managed to reestablish orthodox Zoroastrianism and proceeded to persecute all other religions, especially the Zandīks (Zoroastrian heretics, perhaps Zurvanites), who insisted on interpreting the Avesta in the light of their own thinking.
Philo mentions Jews who scoffed at the Bible, which they insisted on interpreting literally, and others who failed to adhere to biblical laws that they regarded as mere allegory; he writes too of Jews who observed nothing of Judaism except the holiday of Yom Kippur.
And it's hardly surprising that a good many of the last decade's commander-in-chief movies aren't really about politics at all, unless you insist on interpreting "Independence Day" as a disguised anti-immigration polemic and "Air Force One" as a serious attempt to grapple with the problem of terrorism.
The natural way to interpret "White horse is horse" is as the latter, but the sophist insists on interpreting it as the former.
She insisted on transcending labels.
Dean gallantly insists on driving us back.
They might insist on helping you.
Most Catholics — meaning, to be more precise, people who were raised Catholic or converted as adults and continue to take church teachings and practices seriously — now reserve the right to reject doctrines insisted on by their bishops and to interpret in their own way the doctrines that they do accept.
He insisted on finishing.
They insisted on praying.
