Sentence examples for insistence of that from inspiring English sources

(One recalls as well the insistence of that pitiful pedant and quiz-show loser Alvin Pepler, in "Zuckerman Unbound," that Nathan Zuckerman, the Roth doppelgänger, should congratulate himself on being Newark's finest author — alongside, Pepler quickly adds, Stephen Crane, with Mary Mapes Dodge, who wrote "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates," coming in a distant third).

Sleeping people vibrate despite themselves, with the ever-present promise of reanimation" — an absolutely gorgeous perception marred by the double-exclamation-point insistence of "that's a lie".

The demand by small countries that they should all retain a member of the European Commission must be reconciled with the insistence of France and Germany that, in an enlarged EU, the commission's size should be limited.

To the growing insistence of employees that their lives matter?

"What I hear is the impatience and insistence of Kenyans that this is resolved," she said.

But the insistence of some that the deaths of hundreds of people represented God's will and were therefore unavoidable is something I refuse to accept.

On this occasion, Kasich was promoting the most tiresome conceit of the current budget debate: the insistence of Republicans that they're not cutting federal spending programs--they're merely slowing the rate of growth.

The image of Rangers scarves burning outside Ibrox, the insistence of supporters that they would hand back season tickets and the unwillingness of others to even stand to applaud a Johnston goal remain vivid images for many.

The insistence of Pakistan that no American or other foreign troops can operate from its territory is one of the basic challenges facing the Obama administration as it tries to find a way to eliminate the militant threat.

The insistence of everyone that I either leave or stay was incredibly disorienting.

Others come as a shock: the kettledrums that sound like cannon fire; the piercing insistence of a piccolo that seems to have been requisitioned from Napoleon's army.