Sentence examples for insistence in the from inspiring English sources

Ever since his dubious victory over Pacquiao, Bradley has insisted (incorrectly, but understandably) that he deserved it, and this insistence, in the eyes of many fans, made Bradley complicit in a great boxing scandal.

Yet there is such ornery insistence in the overlapping textures and fractured rhythms that the music has substance and shock value.

I've complained a lot about the Hellenization of our economic discourse — the insistence, in the teeth of evidence, that America is just like Greece in budget terms.

The Republic's assistant manager, Liam Brady, also backed calls for a replay, referring to Fifa's repeated insistence in the importance of fair play.

In the early 1980s Basquiat flew Rammellzee and Mr. Torton to Los Angeles, where the three outfitted themselves lavishly at Maxfield and stayed, at Basquiat's insistence, in the Chateau Marmont bungalow where John Belushi had recently died.

In the town of Baglung, for example, the market would open, at the army's insistence, in the mornings, only to shut in the afternoons for fear of Maoist reprisals.

It is the daily act of quiet insistence in building the things we value and wish to see that will lay the groundwork for the things we wish to manifest.

The Problem: Undersized Headphone Jacks Perhaps the single greatest impediment to the widespread adoption of musicphones is manufacturers inane insistence in stuffing the minuscule 2.5mm headphone jack on their products, as opposed to the 3.5mm jack found on regular MP3 players.

At Argentina's insistence, in 2011 the group stopped accepting ships carrying the Falklands flag in any of its members' ports a restriction that could become increasingly burdensome if the islands develop a commercially viable offshore oil industry.

The battles generally have centered on his insistence in involving the S&L; in highly speculative commercial real estate investment and development rather than sticking with relatively safe but lower-profit single-family home loans.

The criticism of this kind of education, and the insistence in much of the national debate today about the priority of training in vocational skills, is also a distinctively American idea.