Sentence examples for insisting on engaging from inspiring English sources
Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.
These two people, novelist and nurse, lover and wife, comforted one another and their relationship became rather like that of a mother and her grown-up son: to Forster's biographer PN Furbank, May remembered Forster as a bad patient, getting under her feet and insisting on engaging her in conversation when all she wanted was to get on with the housework.
The N.H.L., in the person of Brendan Shanahan, its well-meaning but oblivious disciplinarian, fined Weber a ridiculous pittance of twenty-five hundred dolland, and insisted on engaging in increasingly strained and pedantic arguments about the mystery of intention, in which violence is parsed out and punished depending on whether or not the violent act is deemed a "hockey play".
The headache brought on by Aunt Chooch and her unbearably boorish brood begins as a throbbing reaction to the amplified renditions of "O Sole Mio" that fill the hall and is exacerbated by visits to each table by cast members in scary helmet-wigs who insist on engaging you in conversation and worse, sitting in your lap.
He insisted on engaging Partisan Review in the great ideological debates: the battle between Trotskyites and Stalinists in the 1930's, the backlash against Communism in the late 40's and 50's, and the 70's disputes between neoconservatives and the dwindling corps of deep-dyed liberals.
The results of this study further highlight that in a context where sex buyers are criminalised, sex workers continue to be displaced, as many clients insist on engaging in sex work transactions away from police scrutiny.
She insisted on transcending labels.
The fact that it insists on getting engaged reveals the elephant in the room: underlying the crisis in Crimea and Russia's fierce resistance to potential changes is Nato's undisguised ambition to continue two decades of expansion into what used to be called "post-Soviet space", led by Bill Clinton and taken up by successive administrations in Washington.
We will engage in insisting on knowing her potential role in that violence, we will defend the individual perpetrator of that violence, and we will be divided.
Instead, the West insists on recognizing and engaging predominantly with the Tobruk-based administration in the East — which has little to no control over what happens in most of the country — especially in the areas from which migrants are departing.
