(He reluctantly gave in to the insistent urging of Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and others in Congress).
At the insistent urging of Marshall, newly elected Governor Bob Graham announced the formation of the "Save Our Everglades" campaign in 1983, and in 1985 Graham lifted the first shovel of backfill for a portion of the C-38 canal.
It was there that Wendell Smith became an insistent voice in urging the eradication of baseball's color line.
Maybe you're doomed to contribute nothing to the world, and to feel no urge more insistent than the one to kidnap and cuddle a small dog.
Insistent street vendors will urge you to buy from them, but it's all part of the atmosphere, like the Inca stonework that can be seen in the streets nearly 500 years after Francisco Pizarro rode in at the head of an army fewer than 200 strong.
If they are, then the majority of them are clearly ignoring the insistent, relentless, repetitive messages urging them not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as their next leader.
"Keep on sending your love," he urges in "Save Us," the lean and insistent rocker that opens the album; "Do some good before you say goodbye," he counsels in "Everybody Out There," which has a touch of R.E.M.'s folk-rock.
Pakistan's remonstrations over Mr. Bugti became so insistent that the United States and other NATO members urged Afghanistan to move Mr. Bugti elsewhere, Western diplomats and Afghan officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the politics involved.
His urge to acquire and display his belongings was so insistent that it crowded the rest of his life, literally.
As it happened, Pacquiao's decision to urge his opponent to "go to war" was a battle-cry too insistent for Márquez's trainer, Ignacio "Nacho" Beristáin, who instructed his fighter to engage.
