Sentence examples for insistence to require from inspiring English sources

The bill was modified, at the governor's insistence, to require the Health Department and the Office of Fire Prevention and Control to consider whether altering cigarettes to make them less incendiary would also make them more dangerous to smoke.

But the Quartet plan faces a major obstacle from a Palestinian insistence that it require Israel to halt all settlement construction during talks.

Parent leaders were angry at Mr. Mills' insistence on requiring students to take the state tests.

Thus, the insistence to compare their behavior with typical individuals on some occasions may not be sufficiently enlightening.

But this response ignores Popper's insistence that testing requires methodological decisions not to attribute failures of predictions to mistakes in subsidiary assumptions or to "interferences".

He shows, in sum, that one is virtuous if and only if one is a philosopher, for he adds to Book Four's insistence that virtue requires knowledge the new claim that only philosophers have knowledge (esp. 474b-480a).

During negotiations over the bill, Mr. Nuñez dropped his initial opposition to Mr. Schwarzenegger's insistence that individuals be required to have insurance.

Another reason the budget was delayed was a last-minute standoff over the Assembly's insistence that New York City be required to reduce class sizes in exchange for the increase in education aid.

Sadat was perturbed by Gaddafi's unpredictability and insistence that Egypt required a cultural revolution.

The authority abandoned its insistence that new workers be required to reach age 62 before being able to collect full pensions (compared with age 55 for current workers) or contribute 6percentt of their earnings toward their pensions (compared with 2percentt for current workers).

The author of "The Promise of American Life" (1909) and a founder of The New Republic (where Judis himself now serves as a senior editor), Croly is remembered for his insistence that national regulation was required to protect American democracy from the effects of the post-Civil War corporate oligarchies.