Sentence examples for insistence of a from inspiring English sources

All this for a few million tonnes of heavily subsidised cotton, produced at the insistence of a regime that collapsed more than a decade ago.

Not long afterward, at the insistence of a friend who is not an athlete, Wright said she sought help.

Her hand is evident, in tightly and loosely brushed strokes and featherings, but never has the insistence of a signature.

She contradicts the view so widely promulgated, that women tend to abuse children at the insistence of a man.

His charm weaves its way through the conversation with all the insistence of a purring cat pressing against your legs.

Preview audiences rejected the ending as unsatisfying, however, and at the insistence of a marketing executive, Joseph Farrell, Paramount Pictures had the director, Adrian Lyne, reshoot it.

Two years later, Fan Zhongyan, a government official, was banished at the insistence of an imperial counselor for speaking out against certain official practices and institutions; Ouyang immediately defended Fan and attacked the counselor in writing.

(The remaining 24 largely disavow the term's anatomical significance for full insistence of "an unpleasant or thick-headed fellow, jerk").

And particularly China and Russia for their own reasons supported Iran's insistence of an end to sanctions on missiles and conventional arms.

Few investigations agree to the insistence of an equivalent correlation of acute ischemic lesions and neuropsychological outcome parameters [29].

At the insistence of Russia and China, a phrase saying that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a threat to peace was excised from the final text.