Sentence examples for insisted on taking from inspiring English sources

At meetings with the president he insisted on taking a staff person, because the president had one, and the branches were equal.

Elinor insisted on taking lessons.

Rubenstein insisted on taking Koch to lunch.

Pete insisted on taking heroin while I was filming.

Seemingly every guest insisted on taking the red-carpet route through the doors.

Mr. Singh quickly dismissed the pants and insisted on taking the man's measurements.

But Mr. Tsarnaev insisted on taking it anyway, Mr. Junior recalled.

The director of the Hygienic Laboratory, George McCoy, insisted on taking over Armstrong's work himself.

In Iraq, the Pentagon insisted on taking charge, just as it insisted on taking charge of everything else — whether or not it had the competence to do so.

If we insisted on taking it on, we needed to keep those fundraising efforts small and strategically focused.

"Doctors were astonished because their relatives insisted on taking them," he said.