Indeed, when Jean-Pierre Mustier, chief executive of Société Générale's corporate and investment banking division, called in Mr. Kerviel for questioning on Jan . 19 the day after the trader's faulty positions were discovered, Mr. Kerviel insisted for several hours that rather than engaging in wrongdoing, he had instead invented a new kind of trade that would make the bank money.
The bizarre left-wing M.P. George Galloway was the first off the mark, insisting within hours that the bombings were the inevitable payback for the war in Iraq.
Click here to view Longstreth is notorious for insisting on 12-hour rehearsals, though Coffman, his girlfriend, makes clear in a phone call later that she doesn't mind: "He's super-cool and trying to get what he needs to get done, otherwise he's just trying to have fun".
'At a time when my husband and I should be having nice evenings together, he's on his own up there and I'm on my own down here.' Gisela Stuart, MP for Edgbaston, and Helen Clark insist the hours are all part of the job.
That's a bit mean, I say, considering you always insist on two hours for your Life Stories.
This pressure to simultaneously lower costs while increasing speed and delivery times drives factory managers to insist on long hours for workers at low pay.
Even this, however is not always successful, as many playwrights after being grilled for hours still insist they haven't the slightest idea who committed the murder in the first act.
There, we were revived at the magical Polyphemus restaurant by an inebriated communist chef who fed us Che Guevara rum and sun-dried octopus for hours, then insisted he drive us back to the harbour.
But Josh and I had been walking for hours and fasting for longer, and he insisted that it would be kosher.
She would suffer in agony for hours between Oxy doses, but her doctor insisted she stay on the 12-hour regimen.
