At America's insistence, passports are about to get their biggest overhaul since they were introduced.
It was after only a phone call from my brother, who is a doctor, and my repeated insistence to medical staff to "get the surgeon, I am bleeding" that my life was saved.
It took a vast amount of patience not to strangle him, and great insistence and some luck to get the manager, who defended his bartender on the ground that he was "new" and had not yet, presumably, learned how to distinguish between a Negro boy of twenty and a Negro "boy" of thirty-seven.
If the movies have killed the Sex and the City dream, then, in retrospect, its death throes could be seen in the last series with its insistence that Carrie had to get together with Mr Big in the end, never mind if it was totally out of character for both of them, never mind if it went against everything the show once said about women not needing to put up with men who make them feel like crap.
He told a friend: "It took me, I think it was, TWO years, insistence and wrangling etc., to GET HOLD of their microphone".
More than conversations and reports, we need legislation and an insistence that we try to get in line with the rest of the developed world in offering paid family leave.
Despite Apple's insistence it does not want to get into TV or film production, it is in a strong position to do so.
The company issued a statement to Reuters that reads less like a denial than an insistence that it's trying to get better.
Separate sleepers cite a bevy of reasons for their habit, including apnea, restless leg syndrome, his insistence on watching "Sports Center" her need to get up early for yoga.
At Mama Jean's insistence we arrived forty-minutes early to get a good seat.
