Sentence examples for insistence on continuing from inspiring English sources

Lawrence's insistence on continuing to wear the offending glasses, for instance, seems inexplicable.

Immediately after the attacks, there was a conflict between Antoine's sense that the world had stopped for ever and life's insistence on continuing.

"He's always felt that was part of the job, he's always helped his movies," Mr. Burry said of Mr. Douglas's insistence on continuing to work for both "Money Never Sleeps" and "Solitary Man," even while ill.

The mosque attack in July "demonstrated Musharraf's insistence on continuing his loyalty, submissiveness and aid to America against the Muslims," said Mr. bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda.

The situation in the eurozone is worse, however, in part because the democratic deficit is so marked, in part because economic performance has been woeful and in part because there has been a dogged insistence on continuing with policies that have been both ineffective and unpopular.

The Native peoples of California challenged and overcame colonial threats to this "moral management" through their steadfast insistence on continuing these land-based cultural practices despite who owns or claims ownership of these areas.

But let's just say that Obama's continuing insistence on compromising, his continuing faith in bipartisanship despite two and a half years of evidence that these people don't do compromise and will never make a deal, is looking obsessive and compulsive.

Yet this insistence on empowerment continued in casual conversations, on the street, in people's homes, and throughout longer acquaintances and friendships with some of the volunteers.

But her attire (long T-shirt over short shorts) intensifies her insistence on unadorned beauty, continuing the tradition of Frida Kahlo's bold, unflinching self-examinations.

The producers' continuing insistence on showing this stuff is one of several things that make "The X Factor," at least to this point, feel bloated.

In that impasse, the American occupation continues to try to persuade Kurdish leaders to back off their insistence on one unified Kurdish state comprising three of the governorates and possibly additional territory, including some oil fields.