At the insistence of four southern African countries – Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe – Cites agreed to experimental ivory sales from their stockpiles.
(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).
But, at the insistence of the two strongest powers in the world -- Russia and the United States -- Ukraine agreed to give up their nukes in exchange for perpetual guarantees of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
On January 1st, at a meeting with senior army men, Mr Sharon had reiterated his insistence on seven days of total quiet on the ground as a necessary prelude to any diplomatic progress.
On January 1st, at a meeting with senior army men, he reiterated his insistence on seven days of total quiet on the ground as a necessary prelude to any diplomatic progress.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dropped his insistence on seven days of calm before embarking on negotiations and announced that Mr. Arafat could travel outside Ramallah after three months of restrictions.
A Western diplomat said that the Bush administration did not share the insistence on seven days of absolute quiet, and that the six weeks did not have to be entirely quiet.
An aide who had been briefed on the issue said that these rather darling ties started popping up in Mr. Cuomo's wardrobe a few years ago at the insistence of his three daughters.
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.
There are various stories about the novel's final chapters, but whether it was down to Burgess's indecision or the insistence of his publishers, two versions of the text exist.
