Sentence examples for insisting on preserving from inspiring English sources

The point is the fundamental irrationality of insisting on cutting the deficit, while also insisting on preserving every penny of the tax cuts.

Mr. Boehner said Ms. Pelosi, in insisting on preserving the drilling ban, was putting Democrats in the crosshairs of voters furious about gas prices.

While supporting the European effort on risk management, Mr. Osborne dug in his heels on an issue dear to his Conservative Party — and to Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister in the late 1970s and '80s — by insisting on preserving an annual rebate to the British Treasury on agricultural spending worth about £3 billion, or around $4.6 billion.

But Congress loves illusions, and if it insists on preserving this one it should at least make sure that no fanatical faction of a political party can use the limit to threaten the economy with the disaster of default.

Appointing an independent anti-graft agency would be anathema to the party, which insists on preserving a parallel bureaucracy to enforce its will over the main one.

Others insist on preserving their identity as descendants of Africans.

Mr. Belyakov, of the joint peacekeeping force, said Transnistria would insist on preserving the peacekeeping mandate from 1992.

At the same time, they have insisted on preserving bloated military spending and unjustifiably low tax rates for the rich.

They ask: when we know people make bad decisions, why should we insist on preserving freedom of choice?

Second, because it would be a national humiliation to dismantle its programme entirely, it insists on preserving the enrichment capacity to meet what it calls its "practical needs".

An even bigger game-changer than that: U.S. cotton growers no longer insist on preserving the current system of federal farm subsidies.