It is well worth remembering that BoC has total assets of $560bn.' When RBS negotiated its holding, it insisted on warranties and assurances from the Chinese about any unforeseen financial liabilities.
For example, when McDonald's first franchised its operations in Thailand, it insisted on strict adherence to its traditional American menu.
That did not deter it: despite pleas from some French politicians, it insisted on its right to free speech.
Greece won a modest reduction in the interest rate it is paying on its loans, but Ireland received no such concession because it insisted on keeping its low corporate-tax rate.
It insisted on Tuesday its payment due in April was safe, but investors are concerned it may struggle with its 2017 liabilities.
The Times got into the book business in the 1970s, then got out when it realized it could not apply to books the same rigorous standards of accuracy that it insisted on for its own newspaper.
The Softbank group lost its exclusive rights to bid on the bank last week when it missed a deadline for reaching an agreement because it insisted on hiring its own accountants to assess the bank's portfolio, among other demands.
Ultimately, it insisted on having its say.
The late JK Galbraith once noted that the left needed to be smarter about management than the right, since it insisted on taking under its control industries which the private sector had given up as basket cases.
When the monetary fund pressed Mr. Suharto to sign an austerity package last month, one of the wasteful programs it insisted on scrapping was Mr. Habibie's money-losing $2 billion project to build a national aircraft.
It insisted on taking the strategic lead in its alliance with Nissan, essentially acquiring control of the Japanese company.
