Sentence examples for insisting on offering from inspiring English sources

He wrote with sympathy and perception here about love and grief, finding it impossible to pass over a scene without allowing a background character a moment of yearning, or without insisting on offering a dramatic background to his minor figures.

"It appears at this time that we are going to have to continue work on this bill," Mr. Reid said, adding that Republicans were insisting on offering additional amendments to the measure.

The United States Energy Information Administration, a statistical agency in the US Department of Energy, reckons that oil in those ten undeveloped Iraqi fields would fill about 41 billion barrels, worth nearly $3 trillion at today's price.Yet Iraq's government is still discouraging foreign investment by insisting on offering rock-bottom fees to companies bidding to get the oil out.

He also supported the notion of performing opera in English translation and insisted on offering at least one production in English every season.

When you see this strange group, you will know that you're near the commune of mystics that offer beds to pilgrims along the Camino, and that they will insist on offering you tea and telling you of the meaning of the walk along the Saint James way.

To people who insist on offering gifts that you neither want nor are likely to use, you might explain your desire to declutter and suggest alternatives that take up no space, like a movie pass, dinner out, a yoga class or a service like baby-sitting or help bagging books to give away.

Ms. Walton has been stockpiling for her future museum in Arkansas, raiding the New York Public Library in 2005 for a civic landmark, Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits". Having learned from that debacle for the library, Thomas Jefferson University insisted on offering Philadelphians a way to keep the Eakins.

The lady could not help my mother, but she insisted on offering me a summer job.

As we wandered the khan, here, too, the whistling proprietors insisted on offering pleasure.

"They (Riyadh) insisted on offering the blood of the good Mujahideen as a sacrifice for the Crusaders on their holiday, in the New Year," the two groups said in the statement posted on social media.

The House move, which passed 228 to 199, meant abandoning the back-and-forth that gripped the House and Senate all day as the GOP-led lower chamber insisted on offering government funding bills that chipped away at the Affordable Care Act.