Sentence examples for insistence has from inspiring English sources

That insistence has been the irreducible minimum in all the theories about Mary that have appeared in Christian history.

The IMF's insistence has sharply slowed the flow of donor funds on which the Afghan government relies.

Under the E.U.'s planned banking supervisory system, Germany's insistence has resulted in its officials, not European ones, being designated to oversee the country's rickety public banks.

Feldman's bid states that such work might be done in Newark, where YankeeNets, at Chambers's insistence, has tried unsuccessfully to complete a deal to build an arena.

But what do we have?" Although Mr. Sobyanin has repeatedly said that the elections were fair and honest, his insistence has only served to confirm the widespread belief that previous elections were rigged.

Though there are signs that the Ukrainian economy is beginning a recovery after a decade of unceasing contraction, the Kharkiv Initiative, the payback for what Ukraine has sacrificed at Washington's insistence, has failed to generate a single contract for any industry in this city.

Brard was a left-back by trade, but on Cruyff's insistence had been deployed as a left winger.

Three years of spending cuts imposed largely at her insistence have reduced Greece's gross domestic product by a staggering 25 percent and wrecked its mainstream political parties.

By then, Tonto was riding with a lanky, sunburned Californian named Frisco Jim, and the Ranger had hooked up with a phlegmatic Cherokee called Paco who, at the Ranger's insistence, had eschewed eagle feathers for a jaunty maroon derby.

Underlying this insistence have been economic fantasies, in particular belief in the confidence fairy — that is, belief that slashing spending will actually create jobs, because fiscal austerity will improve private-sector confidence.

Her ambitions and her insistence on pursuing them were considered inappropriate and unhealthy; after her psychotic break she was literally told that this insistence had created her 'split mind' and that the path to a cure lay in giving up all ambitions that didn't conform to the paternalistic ideal".