Sentence examples for insistence on building from inspiring English sources
In Iran, after all, Ahmadinejad came to power not because of his insistence on building a nuclear weapon or his anti-Semitic rhetoric; he, too, won popularity largely on social issues.
Clinton's staff had been up late trying to formulate a response to Bush's press secretary, Tony Snow, who had told reporters that the Clinton Administration had been craven in the face of North Korea's insistence on building a nuclear weapon.
Hamilton's insistence on building a strong central government, and his determination to promote the interests of bankers and industrialists, inevitably brought him into conflict with his political nemesis, the brilliant but romantic and woolly minded Thomas Jefferson.
FOREIGN leaders who find themselves perplexed by the Bush administration's insistence on building a national missile defense might try reading what another American president wrote about national defense 200 years ago.
Mr. Lieberman said he was concerned about the secret wilderness negotiations; his insistence on building a highway across wetlands, a project stopped by the courts; and his failure to respond quickly to the release of carcinogens from a magnesium plant near the Great Salt Lake.
The underlying principle in all of Vedanta's expansions and acquisitions has been the insistence on building large capacities at the minimum cost.
Worse still is our arrogant insistence of building on flood plains so that the natural mechanisms of flood alleviation are inhibited.
Mrs. Thatcher is despised by many so-called Eurocrats because of her robust hostility to the organization's goal of an "ever closer union," a mission laid out in the 1957 Treaty of Rome, and her insistence that Europe should focus instead on building a common market for goods and services and keeping the sovereign powers of individual states intact.
Predictably, the rare initiatives that show impressive results tend to be defined more by their emphasis on building social capital than by their insistence on either chastity or contraception.
The Netanyahu government's refusal to come to terms with the Palestinians, and its insistence on settlement building, have steadily undermined both the security and the essence of the state, which was founded as a refuge from dispossession.
If what you care about is foreign policy and you tuned in tonight, you may have been a tad disappointed by the focus on car tires and teachers and by Barack Obama's rather robotic insistence on "nation building here at home".
