Sentence examples for insistence on applying from inspiring English sources

The respected financier was ousted after months of internal battles following his insistence on applying the anti-money laundering rules demanded by the European Commission.

Decisions or moves that will lead to decisions will be taken today and it is fundamentally crucial that we send a message that policies that affect not only us but the whole of southern Europe, are just not going to pass, This pig-headed insistence on applying austerity measures that worsen recession, that kill hope or any chance of the economy rebounding, are obviously totally wrong.

The administration's insistence on applying benchmarks to the performance of the Iraqi government is not new and will be hard to implement.

Although there are many examples of phenomena that do seem more or less naturally to divide into three groups, Peirce seems to have been driven by something more than mere examples in his insistence on applying his categories to almost everything imaginable.

That insistence on refusing to apply the word "gay" to her father told me everything: Someone was bullying her about my sexual orientation.

Norris compares her to the Dogme film-makers in her insistence on honesty, which she applies as stringently to her actors as she does to herself.

The drama begins when Yeong-hye refuses to eat animal products after waking from a series of nightmares (crimson barns full of dripping flesh, strangling of cats, et cetera).. FR Leavis's complaint about Conrad's "adjectival insistence" on horror might well be applied to these dreams, which are narrated with conscientious sensationalism.

Was it the insistence on a one-year contract?

One especially interesting case to which he applied his general insistence on the freedom of religion from state-interference was that of Prussia's Jews.

The same questions apply to the President's insistence on firing Comey.

But his insistence on calm, his conflation of adaptability with panic, may no longer apply.