Sentence examples for long insistence from inspiring English sources

What is beyond dispute is that Mr. Davis's long insistence on the inalienable right of anyone to travel anywhere prefigures the present-day immigration debate by decades.

By agreeing, as he apparently did, to Palestinian sovereignty over several Arab neighbourhoods within the municipal border, Mr Barak has tacitly dropped Israel's long insistence on the city's indivisibility, the mantra that it should remain "united forever under Israeli sovereignty".

The comb-over, his decades-long insistence on combing his hair across a substantial expanse of cranium, is history.

It does, though, underline Stone and Parker's career-long insistence that it's not "the thing" they hate, just the way society reveres "the thing".

Mr. Karzai's insistence on the complete cessation of night raids is another difficulty for the Americans, who have long insisted that they are critical to keeping the insurgency under control.

Burroughs and his allies were again incensed at Long's insistence that what he wrote was based entirely upon fact, and quickly responded with criticism; Burroughs' written reply reportedly proved to be almost too harsh for publication.

In particular, in a head-to-head clinical trial where both the new regimen and current standard of care include treatments that provide long survival, insistence on proven OS benefits for new drugs may delay availability and timely development of new efficacious treatments for patients.

Oliver echoes Stewart's long-standing insistence that the show is mere comedy, performing no useful journalistic role.

But, on top of that, the conservative majority contradicted its long-held insistence on protecting states' rights against federal interference.

His remarks reveal an openness to re-examining the church's long-held insistence on an all-male clergy.

Mr. McCartney, for example, repeats his long-maintained insistence that the Beatles refused to tour America until they had a No. 1 hit.