Sentence examples similar to insistence of a sort from inspiring English sources
At the insistence of a delivery room nurse, they relented.
As the time approached to make the Vice-Presidential selection, the Dukakis people were becoming increasingly irritated not only with Jackson's refusal to concede that he had lost the race for the nomination but also his insistence that he be treated as a sort of co-nominee.
Elías solves his cases with a sort of plodding insistence, confident that every mystery has in the end some sort of an answer.
The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was for part of his career professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has sometimes been interpreted as a behaviourist, though his insistence that "an 'inner process' stands in need of outward criteria" could possibly be interpreted as a sort of epistemic and central-state materialism.
"Ingenious Nature" ultimately comes off as a sort of male derivative of "Sex and the City," but with less narrative finesse and greater insistence on scientific legitimacy.
I think it's time to reconsider the insistence of many social scientists on the near-impossibility of neutrally scientific risk assessment guidelines, procedures and tests as a sort of intellectual infatuation.
Yet we owe ourselves and each other this insistence on some sort of normalcy, these tiny, quotidian signs of resolve and resilience, these utterly ordinary and unremarkable journeys from place to place that -- like it or not, and through no will of our own -- have become acts of defiance.
If Baghdad does indeed turn into a bloodbath, Americans are just as likely to turn against the limited strategy demanding heavy bombing and more lethal force as they are to turn against the war itself.The domestic problem for Mr Bush may not be waning support for war, but public insistence on the sort of all-out victory that might alienate world opinion.
