Sentence examples for insisted so far from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama has insisted so far that a State Department environmental review of the pipeline, which would run from Canada's booming oil sands to refineries in Texas, should be completed before a final decision is made.

Grayling insisted: "So far our experience has been that a significant number of placements turn into jobs, with the employer getting to like the young person and keeping them on.

Mr. Ahmadinejad's aides have insisted so far that he is retaining his additional post as oil minister, but his decision not to travel to the OPEC meeting suggests that he is no more than a caretaker of the oil ministry, which is responsible for more than three-quarters of the country's revenue.

Mr. Santorum insisted that so far, none of the other candidates had asked him to drop out.

Dr. Goodyear, whose specialty is the study of stone tools, agreed, though he insisted that "so far we have found no plausible way nature could have made these tools, but we have shown how humans could have made them".

Its chief salesman, John Leahy, was hoping to end the week with another 200 orders in his pocket.Both Boeing and Airbus insist that so far there have been virtually no cancellations.

Tensions persisted as Dr. ElBaradei declined to join in the American claim that Iran is secretly attempting to build a nuclear weapon, insisting that so far he could report only that Iran had hidden, for 17 years, a series of nuclear programs from the agency's inspectors.

It insists the money so far invested in the technology has not been written off.

"It is undervalued," he insists, and in so far as the currency's weakness is a cause for concern, it is because of the risk that this will feed through to inflation.

The job of government is to lead, and to insist; Labour has so far ducked the hard choices, and it remains to be seen whether Cameron's new "quality of life" group comes up with more than blue-tinted hot air.

Israel has so far insisted that the talks focus only on procedural questions.