Sentence examples for insistence back from inspiring English sources

They bear as tenuous a relation to reality as Israel's insistence back in the 1980s that the overwhelmingly nonviolent First Intifada comprised a "campaign of terror" by "mobs," or, more recently, its repeated denials that the Israeli military deployed white phosphorus in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

I mentioned this to the agent, who looked surprised but at my insistence went back into his computer to check.

Then, after lunch and on my insistence, we went back.

At Smith's insistence, he shifts back over the wicket.

The ability to make unforeseen connections the creative insistence on growing back what's needed from what's left.

Abbott's response to the revelations was seen as lacking tact, and his Coalition government's insistence on turning back asylum seekers' boats has not helped matters.

But between the advances in orthopedics and Mr. Ferraro's dogged insistence on going back to work, he figured it was worth a shot.

Carving and his insistence on going back to nature were the important legacies of Moore; looking at stone and interpreting it as the anatomy of the earth and treating it with more significance than an anatomy of a body.

The report states that the government's apparent insistence on "scaling back the UK's low carbon ambitions" would prolong "the exposure of consumers and the UK economy to the potential impacts of high fossil fuel prices".

There are problems enough with the insistence on a back door for devices that will be sold not only in America but in countries with governments that feel less constrained by privacy concerns than ours does.

Instead of dismissing the new Israeli proposal as a "waste of time" and threatening Israel with the prospect of a binational state, the Palestinians might be better off rethinking their insistence on turning back the clock to 1967.