Sentence examples for insistence on speaking from inspiring English sources

His waywardness and insistence on speaking his mind (whatever was currently in it) vexed his ministers.

Her final speech ended with the words "Diolch yn fawr" ("Thank you" in Welsh), reflecting her insistence on speaking directly to Wales – a strategy that was apparent from the start, despite having led to criticism after the ITV debates.

"Raspberry's clarity of thought and his insistence on speaking the truth as he sees it — even when others disagree — have kept his column fresh, unpredictable and uncommonly wise," the citation said.

This is an all too familiar condition for Liao, who has been in and out of jail for his fearless insistence on speaking freely for himself and for many of his countrymen since the late 1980s, when he was locked away for four years for reciting his poem "Massacre".

Large crowds watching this 13th of 20 stages in sweltering weather consistently cheered Armstrong, who has gone a long way in winning over a French public not always sympathetic to him and his insistence on speaking English during his three successive Tour victories.

Netanyahu's insistence on speaking to the US Congress on the proposed nuclear deal with Iran two weeks before Israel goes to the polls was widely perceived as being as much about domestic Israeli politics as about Iran (and the inevitable spat with Obama playing well with his rightwing base).

Woodson's insistence on fundamentals spoke to something in the way I was raised.

You might hear the shadow influence of second-wave Detroit techno on "Speak the Name" and "Beat the Ground" in their asymmetrical pulse patterns — but you don't notice any insistence behind the allusion.

According to Son, Tsutsui sleeps through important meetings, took a medical degree on the side at his mother's insistence and speaks so esoterically almost nobody can understand him.

At Luna Lovegood's insistence, Harry speaks to Helena Ravenclaw's ghost, who reveals that Voldemort performed "dark magic" on her mother's diadem, which is in the Room of Requirement.

As to Leung's remarks about Chan's aphorisms, I made clear in the review that I was chiding Huang on his insistence that Chan spoke "pidgin" English when his well-turned and witty phrases give the lie to that conceit.