Sentence examples for insistence of a certain from inspiring English sources

An internal e-mail said this request was "at the insistence of a certain senator," and one of the group's members told the inspector general's office that he believed the senator to be Mr. Sampson.

Where Chinese tradition gets it right is in its insistence that eating a certain way can influence the outcome of the coming year.

At the same time the book can be read as a general reflection on this most suggestive and mysterious of colours: its signalling of cosmic or private depths, the blue remembered hills of childhood, the bruising or delicate insistence of certain hues in writers from Beckett ("A very blue man," says Gass) to Katherine Mansfield ("Very beautiful, O God! is a blue tea-pot with two white cups attending").

"It is due to the insistence of certain institutional actors on submitting absurd proposals and displaying a total indifference to the recent democratic choice of the Greek people".

He got away with this insistence when he ran the privately owned Trump Organization, mostly because no one cared much about him at all outside of a certain tabloid stardom.

It was occasioned by the insistence of certain Judaic Christians from Jerusalem that Gentile Christians from Antioch in Syria obey the Mosaic custom of circumcision.

Players of a certain type.

Want someone of a certain gender?

At the insistence of a delivery room nurse, they relented.

The insistence of a defendant that he exercise this right under unreasonable conditions does not amount to a waiver.

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.