Sentence examples for insistent influence from inspiring English sources

But the WikiLeaks cables highlight the understated yet insistent influence of another country with ideas about Pakistan's future: Saudi Arabia.

In the 18th century, as excavation of Greece began in earnest, the contact became more direct, the influence more insistent.

His Gunther novels — the latest, "Prussian Blue" (Marian Wood), is the twelfth in the series — had their origin in a postgraduate course on law and philosophy at the University of Birmingham, where Kerr developed an insistent curiosity about the influence of German Romanticism on that country's legal philosophy and, in turn, on the legally codified embrace of state terror that began there in 1933.

There is nothing more "apparent" than that a president's statements of loathing for the defendant in a court-martial — in Bergdahl's case, vehement, repeated, and insistent on the outcome — could influence the military jurors and decision-makers charged with determining his fate.

This insistent return to questions of influence has to do with the fact that Symonds held conflicting views about the causes of same-sex desire.

He was calmly insistent that special treatment didn't influence the list's results.

The insistent theme of the "death wish" (another example of Freud's influence), however, indicates too radical a pessimism for tragedy; even the character of Edmund Tyrone, O'Neill's own counterpart, confesses that he has always been a little in love with death, and in another late play, The Iceman Cometh (1939), the death wish is more strongly expressed.

(C2)...the family would be insistent on them being seen by a doctor most of time and influence the nurse to call you but once you come and see them and assess them, no it would be uncommon that they would insist on an antibiotic.

We are strongly influenced by the immediate past and present, so that without continuous and insistent prodding to move into the future, you will end up with stories about things that are in the newspapers by the end of the month.

Bonham insistent.

Mr. Liu was insistent.