Sentence examples for insistence of one from inspiring English sources

Not shy, this pastor with the clerical collar, the Ann Taylor blazer and the cheerful insistence of one whose own mother called her a steamroller.

Handel added several new arias and a final chorus, and at the insistence of one of his sopranos, he inserted two showpiece arias from Francesco Araia's "Lucio Vero".

The council approved the new plan as part of a $4 million bailout of the convention's local organizing committee, at the insistence of one member, Jackie Goldberg, a liberal Democrat representing Hollywood, who held the decisive vote.

(If you want to know whether police have been told to take this seriously, reflect on the insistence of one of them, Xie Yalong, that he only admitted to corruption because he was tortured).

What did remain was the Leninist insistence on one-party rule.

The depth of my admiration for Lauder now baffles me as much as the steady diet of horehound drops I adopted as snack food, or my insistence, much of one autumn, that I wear a rabbit's foot in each buttonhole of my shirt, which I kept tightly fastened up to the neck.

It is this insistence of being one's brother's and sister's keeper as a pure American ideal, the questioning of what an "ownership society" means, that was so heartening.

This insistence on a one-on-one meeting suggests what prosecutors like to call "consciousness of guilt".

But Dr. Bonanno called the published data "embarrassingly bad" and noted they tended to lump in results from "a lot of people who don't need treatment" but sought it at the insistence of "loved ones or misguided professionals".

Anger out of control, insistence on having one's way, reluctance to look inward to learn what interferes with acting calmly and effectively, and ties to this generation's versions of "political correctness" have all interfered with the further development of Occupy.

Lawyers who say this would make little difference because we would still be signed up to the ECHR forget this was the situation prior to the HRA coming into force, or ignore David Cameron's repeated insistence that one of the purposes of his bill of rights would be to reduce the power of the courts.