Though the company planned to move 200 to 300 containers by October, so far just 30 or 40 have gone — the result, Mr. Armaos said, of Cuba's insistence on engaging only with like-minded governments in a foundering global economy.
Winchester also contributes guileless love songs ("Don't Be Shy"), wry exhortations of his insistence on engaging with life ("Never Forget to Boogie") and melancholy odes to the most civilized of partings ("Ghosts), all sung in that liquid and smokey honeysuckle voice revealing his upbringing in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The famous existentialists' dramatic insistence on choice and engaged freedom resonated with the young Lanzmann finding his voice in Paris.
Weiner, a pioneer of language-based art, appears in finest fettle in his first U.S. retrospective: intelligent, provocative, allusive, and, for all his insistence on the word, vitally engaged with visual pleasure.
His determined rejection of historicism and his insistence on a substantial ethics results in an engaged politics that is sensitive to historical situations.
Since I am by training a lawyer and by heritage a product of New England and the radical Protestant Reformation, both the insistence on following procedure and the willingness to engage in introspection may come more naturally to me than to others.
There is, in principle, no reason to object to the road map's insistence on a reform agenda, a goal that should have engaged U.S. support from the very outset of the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.
The effort reflected Tony's insistence on the historian's moral responsibility not only to understand, but also to engage.
Syria has engaged in fitful negotiations with Israel that have collapsed over its insistence on regaining every square inch of the Golan Heights that it lost during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The insistence on sameness in the case of autism reminds one of it too.
"It has always seemed to me that history is overdetermined, so any attempt to pick out a single cause will be doomed, and yet McCloskey's insistence on the essential role of what she variously calls ideas, ideology, ethics or rhetoric the social acceptability of bourgeois folk engaging honourably in business is persuasive...
