Sentence examples for insisting on serving from inspiring English sources
Given how mighty Lyon one were, and how often chairmen complain about lack of loyalty, it has been instructive and pathetic to watch the Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas spend much of this summer pleading with Bafétimbi Gomis to leave and ridiculing him for insisting on serving the last year of his contract unless something more enticing comes along.
But when Irma arrives the first guest, Betty insists on serving her the one bottle of French champagne.
They insisted on serving wine in extremely fine crystal; sometimes he demanded to use a jelly jar, prophylactically.
The sixteenth-century Mogul emperor Akbar called it "the water of immortality," and insisted on serving it at court.
I have a friend who insists on serving cassoulet only after a day or two in the fridge, then heating it slowly, for the same reason.
She insisted on serving and clearing, as she says she does at the dinner parties she often throws for 20 or more guests.
When the trembling, aged retainer Doug Arthur Frenchh) insists on serving dinner to the fractious family and then spills the biscuits, the moment plays like tragedy.
Why, for example, does he insist on serving up huge gristly chunks of talk that bear no resemblance to human conversation?
Never pretentious, they say he even insisted on serving small hot dogs as appetizers at fancy parties, because he thought that was what guests liked to eat.
The Egyptian army, which, unlike Tunisia's politics-shy military, stepped in last winter to oversee the transition, has insisted on serving as an executive branch, wielding much the same sweeping powers as did Mr Mubarak.
When I told Mr. Tong I would like to write an article on Shun Lee Palace's 30th anniversary, which he is marking in June, he insisted on serving us a Chinese banquet.
