Sentence examples for insistence over from inspiring English sources
H.P.'s stumble -- a rarity under its chief executive, Mark V. Hurd -- comes despite the company's repeated insistence over the years that it wanted to be a big player in smartphones.
And his stiff-necked insistence over those now mostly forgotten sheep is being recalled here as a pivotal moment for a nascent environmental movement, which seized on the deaths as an argument against chemical warfare development.
Caught between two searing experiences in the past two decades — America's failure to do anything in Rwanda and its insistence, over the objection of key allies, on going into Iraq eight years ago — Mr. Obama has spent much of the past month experimenting with a third way.
As the children of the "Me Generation" were coming of age, they had been taught the need for material insistence over meaningful existence.
Matters were worsened by Ludwig's insistence, over Wagner's objections, that the premieres of the two completed Ring operas, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, be given at once, in Munich, rather than as part of a complete Ring cycle on some future date at a venue of Wagner's choosing.
A top record executive has launched a damning attack on music industry attitudes, claiming the insistence on over-sexualising female artists has led to "boring, crass and unoriginal" music.
After protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park last year, church leaders declined to forgive them their trespasses by yielding to their insistence on taking over an empty lot belonging to the church.
A statement on the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency says Kerry's insistence on "jumping over" the work of U.N. experts in Syria shows that the U.S. has deliberate intentions to exploit events.
The British government strongly protested this action, and the two men were released in January 1862 at President Abraham Lincoln's insistence and over Secretary of State William H. Seward's objections.
No part of the deal has been finalised because in the end it is likely to be a tradeoff between developing countries' demands – particularly for financing to help cope with the impacts of locked-in climate change – and wealthier nations' insistence that over time all countries properly account for the progress they have made towards emission reduction goals.
The exemption for already existing compensation agreements -- the exact provision that is now protecting the AIG bonus payments -- was inserted at the White House's insistence and over Dodd's objections.
