Sentence examples for insistence at the time from inspiring English sources

This despite his insistence at the time of recording radio-hostile 60-minute songs, and never playing old material, so that live audiences would never hear his hits.

Is he then saying that the administration's insistence at the time that we were moving against Iraq to pre-empt its use of weapons of mass destruction was false?

Mr. Bush also said the resistance faced by American troops in southern Iraq in the conflict's first weeks was fiercer than he had expected, an admission that seemed at odds with the Pentagon's insistence at the time that the war was unfolding according to plan.

In a family of five siblings, he and an older brother were the children of another man, whose connection to his mother had been kept secret, at her insistence, all the time he'd been growing up.

English Heritage eventually withdrew its objections on the insistence of its chairman at the time, Sir Jocelyn Stevens.

In previous media appearances, they explained, they'd done things to seem crazier for the cameras, at the insistence of producers like the time they appeared on a television show pretending to have raised a Cabbage Patch Kid named Kevin as though he were an actual child (something they assured me was not actually true).

At the time your insistence caused incredible cognitive dissonance.

It seemed logical that shipping should decline in San Francisco, one of the world's great natural ports, even as it flourished in Los Angeles, where a port had to be dredged and, at the insistence of the Times and Harry Chandler, was.

In fact, one of the main problems with Gallup, and with polls in general at the time, was their insistence upon presenting "as perfectly 'scientific' a method that is really rather rough".

They shared a sense that the poetry of eastern Europe was important; that it had universality and an insistence that was lacking in English poetry at the time.

But, he added, "its amazingly prescient political virtue, which was not recognized sufficiently at the time, was its absolute insistence on diversity".