He insisted that the method was safe and effective, but said that it could cause lasting psychic damage to the interrogators.
Hermeneutic thinkers insisted that the method used in understanding the significance of a text or a historical event has to be fundamentally distinguished from the method used in explaining an event within the context of the natural sciences.
Critical Theorists have always insisted that critical approaches have dual methods and aims: they are both explanatory and normative at the same time, adequate both as empirical descriptions of the social context and as practical proposals for social change.
President Vladimir Putin even said this week that the organisation had "noble goals", although he insisted that the methods used were dangerous and unacceptable.
Mr Cheney insisted that the methods were all legally justified and inconsistent with "torture" – though he admitted that he "didn't know all the allegations that are out there" and conceded that 'rectal rehydration' "was not one of the authorized or approved techniques".
Reacting to the release of the report summary, the Senate Republican leaders insisted that the methods used had helped in the capture of important suspects and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
She insisted that this wasn't so.
Fournier insisted that this was irrelevant.
Jain insisted that this meets the transparency test.
Toffler insisted that this is the only way to adapt to the vertigo of contemporary social change.
