"The fact that Indonesia for a long time refused to even acknowledge that there was a double standard in their insistence that Australia was infringing their sovereignty by appealing for clemency, while at the same time appealing for clemency for its own citizens facing the death penalty in other countries, that has been really quite damaging from Australia's point of view," he said.
Some argued that Merkel had been right to stick by her insistence on reform as a quid pro quo for bailouts, but quibbled with the manner she had gone about her business, failing to sell her policies effectively to her partners in Europe.
Jim Al-Khalili is president of the British Humanist Association I've always envied France its insistence on a society that is secular.
Carswell has also been at loggerheads with Ukip's hierarchy over his insistence on not claiming all the parliamentary subsidies the party is now entitled to.
No detail is too minute, from the podiums – so that the candidates appear at the same height – to the insistence that both candidates walk on stage simultaneously.
Given that so many people I spoke to in Heywood and Middleton said they were switching their vote from Labour to Ukip "because Labour doesn't listen to us", Miliband's insistence on sticking to the script seemed foolish in the extreme.
While the first Conservative instinct was simply to welcome Pfizer, Ed Miliband deserves some credit for his insistence that Britain could do better, even though the intervention exposed how sketchy Labour's industrial thinking remains.
Asked about his daughter's insistence that he had been deliberately provocative in recent weeks, he described it as a lie and a plot to establish a new regime at the top of the party.
For the sake of the boys and at Busby's insistence, very few people knew just how ill she was.
The Fed's chirpy insistence that "economic conditions are improving" fails to reflect the experience of Americans who are finding less money in their already-squeezed budgets.
Carr has not backed away from the observations in Bob Carr: Diary of a Foreign Minister where he describes a bitter dispute with the then prime minister, Julia Gillard, in late 2012 over her insistence Australia should support Israel and vote against Palestinian observer status in the United Nations.
