Sentence examples for insistence and in from inspiring English sources

At America's insistence and in the face of European reluctance, it was incorporated into the Kyoto protocol.

Kessler's total included Washington, despite King's insistence — and in Washington, he figured that Sanders had the support of 167,201 voters to Clinton's 62,330.

But the verdict against Mr. Padilla seemed to undercut that insistence and, in the eyes of administration critics, showed that the civilian system should have had the case from the start.

The study suggests that in a context when the invitation to join an activity is pre-planned and is to occur in the immediate future, it seems that an imperative and its accompanied elements in the turn convey an insistence and immediacy in getting the invitee to accept the invitation.

The two parts of Rights of Man were quickly combined in cheap editions (at Paine's insistence) and sold in unprecedented numbers.

He was released from the hospital on his own insistence and remained in his Schwabing flat under round-the-clock care until his death on May 6.

He returned to the family fold soon after, at his mother's insistence, and was put in charge of the family's SPA Advertising.

The director, John Hyams, may be working in a crude and vulgar realm — but the very conjuring of subjective experience is done here with more insistence and more impact than in most recent live-action dramas, with their pristine behavioral naturalism and, where necessary, literalist flashbacks or dreams.

It is a canny self-observation, about work that is surprisingly quiet, and thus all the more poignant in its insistence and clarity.

He played the part of the engaged public intellectual with insistence and courage, making himself unpopular in England with his criticism of World War I and his campaigns against the executions of the leaders of the Easter Rising.

Too ill to play after August 10 , 1926 Youngs returned home on McGraw's insistence and received a blood transfusion in March 1927.