Sentence examples for insistence at a from inspiring English sources

Full marks to Sun editor Tony Gallagher for his insistence at a recent event that while "extremely sceptical" about the EU, the Sun has yet to decide what line to take in June – "does that mean we are going to campaign for Brexit?

One senior administration official, who requested anonymity in order to discuss the details of confidential deliberations, said these concerns had added to the president's insistence at a White House meeting on Wednesday that each military option include the quickest possible exit strategy.

Lebanon's hothouse politics have been thrown into turmoil by Syria's insistence -- at a suddenly summoned special cabinet meeting over the weekend -- that the president it chose for Lebanon stay in office past his constitutional term.

Nearby is a 15th-century Franciscan monastery, whose bell tolls with annoying insistence at 6am every morning – and a second bell tolls three minutes later, like a medieval snooze alarm.

As a result, there is a bold insistence, at least on the surface, that the stock price does not matter, said the engineer, who did not want to be named because it is considered unseemly to discuss the price.

His insistence at Pollsmoor prison that he had to have a certain brand of hair oil, and no substitute, became an issue of considerable importance to him.

Her Wimbledon debut was a fortnight away, the entry confirmed only after she had met her father's insistence on A-plus grades at school.

On Friday, the US leader abandoned his recent insistence, at Israel's urging, that the plan would have to wait until after a war in Iraq.

The first is the lie it gives to the insistence on meritocracy at a time of acute economic crisis when benefits are slashed, the poor hammered.

Beijing made explicit its insistence on control at a conference in July in Portugal of the European Association for Chinese Studies.

The next morning she came dashing into our bedroom with (at Linda's insistence) a shiny coin and (at mine) a book, "Throw Your Tooth on the Roof," that describes tooth traditions from around the world.