Sentence examples for insisted with the from inspiring English sources

That would provoke immediate disaster, they insisted, with the euro dead by the next morning.

Wonder has always insisted, with the bravery and naïveté of a great artist, on engaging every aspect of the world around him, both politically and emotionally.

He was initially reluctant to be interviewed and insisted (with the singular persuasiveness only a political strategist can muster) that his story would hardly be worth telling.

Even if eating pork is "disgusting" to the majority, it does not harm them and, Mill insisted, "with the personal tastes and self-regarding concerns of individuals the public has no business to interfere".

"New York is the greatest place on earth," Lennon insisted with the enthusiasm of an out-of-towner who has just unhinged his jaw to chomp his first deli sandwich.

It was populated by "a lot of bludgers and leaners … who are delighted to go home every Thursday, have a long weekend and then come back on Sunday night or Monday morning," Hadley insisted, with the triumph of a person who was absolutely On To It, The Big Lark.

When it was clear he wasn't going to catch Big Brown, he didn't insist with the whip.

"God knows I'm not perfect," Sir insists, with the actor's impish smirk suggesting the possibility, in just this one case, of a heavenly mistake in judgment.

Insisting with the fervour of a convert that besides being family he was a good investment, Vincent stressed that he was a sower now and needed seed.

Late last year, after several articles about the software appeared in the British financial press, and professional investors approached Kat and Palaro about using it, they launched it as a business — though not, Kat insists, with the expectation of making much money.

It's a positive agenda, he insists, with the ability to create better liveability, more civic meaning, more active communities and even (if that's your concern) better long-term investments.