Sentence examples for insisted the value from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sack urged him to forget the reproduction and buy the Salem desk because, the dealer insisted, the value of copies invariably declined as that of antiques escalated.

But a company spokeswoman, Raffaella Rossiello, insisted the value of the pieces had been exaggerated and "the jewellery stolen is not part of the collection... worn by actresses during the Cannes Film Festival".

Spurs' televised visit will be worth around £500,000 to Tranmere, who will be backed by a sell-out crowd of 13,300, but their manager insists the value of the tie cannot be measured purely in monetary terms.

As the matriarch, Elsa has insisted on the value of examining life closely and without preconceptions.

Von Neumann insisted on the value of game-theoretic thinking in defense policy.

Above all, he insisted on the value of publishing what was genuinely important and not what was trivial.

As a matter of fact, as Amartya Sen always claims, it was the Indian Emperor Ashoka in the third century BC who first insisted on the value of pluralism, respect for argument and dissent, along with tolerance for minorities.

When many Chinese intellectuals were abandoning ethics in order to be "modern," Liu Xiaobo always insisted on the value of ethics.

One non-GP academic insisted on the value of "pragmatic studies", because of the wide, unselected population attending primary care.

Most archaeologists would insist the true value of their work lies away from the glamour of kings and nobles and with the lives of the ordinary people of the past.

Mr Thompson insisted the settlement represented good value for money and had been fully agreed with Marcus Agius, the former chairman of Barclays who at the time was the head of the BBC's executive board remuneration committee.