Local authorities had insisted in response that this kitschest of annual events should not be politicised.
Senior Republicans, however, lined up to insist in response that they would not compromise in their attempt to dismantle or defund Obamacare, the president's signature healthcare reform.
The EU and Ireland had insisted, in response, that the "back stop" option was simply the translation of an agreement struck in a joint report between the UK and the European commission in December.
But at the same time, he dwelt in his testimony on the causes of inflation and insisted in response to a Senator's question that a rise in inflation--along with the risk that global turmoil might cause energy prices to climb yet higher--were the two biggest threats to the economy.
Even so, "Prevention of [improper] payment [is] beyond our statutory authority," HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMSS) insisted in response to a related 2011 Inspector General report about massive overprescribing in nursing homes.
"[Transgender people] should use the bathroom they feel is most appropriate," he insisted, in response to the controversial North Carolina law passed earlier this year requiring people to use restrooms that correspond with their birth sex.
Bale's accuracy "Much as I love Bale, - surely he cannot be more accurate than Bloom," insists Matthew Bainton in response to Alex Turowski (29 mins).
The Home Office also insisted in its response that there would be cases where the risk an individual pregnant woman presents to the public may outweigh the fact she is pregnant.
Offended at what she described as the harsh tone of the letter, for which Mr. Pavlat said he later apologized, Claudia Kaulfuss, the museum director, insisted in her response that the display of four scalps — the Ojibwe remains not among them — "has a memorial character to the past when white settlers and trappers did not think anything of human rights".
