Sentence examples for insistence on going from inspiring English sources

An insistence on going it alone meant OGX bore the full losses from its dud fields.

But the deal foundered on Reagan's insistence on going ahead with his "Star Wars", his orbiting anti-missile system.

Yet Saatchi's enthusiasm has always counted for something, as has his insistence on going his own way.

This insistence on going big (at a price) seems strange in such economic times, where large businesses aspire to act more like start-ups.

But between the advances in orthopedics and Mr. Ferraro's dogged insistence on going back to work, he figured it was worth a shot.

"We salute him for his principled moral stand and his insistence on going ahead with this trip despite the silly American criticism," a newspaper, Al Thawra, said.

Chance was spending much of his time partying, and his insistence on not going to college had made his relationship with his parents fraught to the point that they were barely speaking.

Craggy Island's holy trinity of comedic clergymen, completed by Father Dougal McGuire and Father Jack Hackett, must not only contend with Mrs Doyle's unrelenting insistence to "go on" and have a cup of tea, but also the overbearing, insipid and idiotic residents of the remote isle.

Dr. Reingold said that, paradoxically, Dr. Winkelstein's insistence on sound methodology nearly cost him the government money needed to keep the project going.

When it is, perhaps Israelis, whose palpable sense of fear and isolation has grown in recent years along with the nation's insistence on a "go it alone" approach to its occupation of Palestinian territories (and International Law more generally), will consider how different it feels to confront environmental risks.

One is its uncompromising insistence on work.