Sentence examples for insistence with from inspiring English sources

Mr. Capps had an effective bluff insistence, with a sure comic touch.

Ashcroft, a conservative Christian, wasn't so much sworn into office as anointed (on his own insistence) with cooking oil.

Mr. Murphy's Gogo, more easygoing and more craven, greets his insistence with wary amusement and wry good cheer.

It is filled — at Williams's insistence — with the trophies she has won since she and Mouratoglou began working together before Wimbledon last year.

The shocks started small but became progressively stronger at the researcher's insistence, with labels on the machine indicating jolts of increasing intensity -- up to a whopping 450 volts.

One of the points of the exhibition is that it reveals the insistence with which a given theme was dwelt upon in the ancient world, and therefore, how important it was to society.

Foremost among Lutheran teachings is the insistence, shared with all Protestant traditions, that the Bible is the sole source of religious authority.

They're wrong in their insistence that with female vulnerability, men will rise to responsibility, while without it, men will invariably sink down to drifting, predatory fecklessness.

The result is particularly striking because of publishers' insistence that, with the exception of one book printed in error, all the authors affected have agreed.

Instead, it is largely an insistence, congruent with all his work, that the self should not be defined politically, nor even intellectually.

In Czechoslovakia the Literárne Listy played a prominent part in the freedom movement of 1968 and was later suppressed at Soviet insistence, along with the Reportér and Student, leading to the start of several underground magazines.