Sentence examples for insists as from inspiring English sources

Pain and loss light us through the darkness, Harsent insists, as well as contributing to it.

It is an individual experience, he insists, as well as a collective one.

"Moonlight," he insists, "as effectively as any psychotropic drug, can unsettle the senses and create a feeling of displacement".

The products are not, she insists, as heavy as one might think, though she agrees that it might be best not to plop the 12-pound, 17-by-13-inch serving tray on the chest of one's bedridden grandma.

Although our companion insists, as forcefully as a retiring fellow can, that he's not really the dour type we take him for, there's no escaping the soundless scream that somehow underlies his soft-spoken anecdotes about the customs of the old country and his observations of the new one.

When it finally agreed, last September, to a set of principles that included getting rid of its nuclear programmes (a first public hint that it has dabbled with potentially bomb-useable uranium, as America insists, as well as plutonium) in return for security assurances and aid, America, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia may have hoped for progress at last.

Mr. Rowland insisted as recently as last week that he would "never" resign.

They insist, as do some liberal advocacy groups, that appropriations for domestic programs are not exploding.

Eventually, the crowd quieted, and Obama insisted, as has been his habit recently, on recalling the accomplishments of his Administration.

If they insist, then you must insist as well.

Wrong, she insisted, as though assertion were proof.