Sentence examples for personal insistence from inspiring English sources

It was furthermore said that this gesture came at the personal insistence of Artie Conn himself.

There is one conspicuous absence from the lists of the ex-great and good: Sir James Savile, who was knighted on the personal insistence of Margaret Thatcher and went to his grave with his honour intact.

The letter, Mr. Simonetta said, unveils the duke's personal insistence on getting rid of the Medici brothers, discusses his military contribution to the plot (550 soldiers and 50 knights) and expresses gratitude for the pope's gift to the duke's son Guidubaldo, a golden chain that represented legitimization of the Montefeltro dynasty under papal jurisdiction.

Personalism's insistence on personal freedom and responsibility, self-determination, creativity, and subjectivity all bear out this deep-seated resistance to collectivism.

For all of the conversation this week about Mitt Romney's views on federal income taxes and personal responsibility, his insistence that "I have inherited nothing" may be the most thought-provoking.

Personalism's insistence that only personality finite and infinite is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality".

As is already evident, some of these criteria relax to some degree (or even entirely dispense with) the Dworkin insistence on personal responsibility the idea that each person is responsible for her choices in the sense that no one is obligated to make good the shortfall in her condition if her choices turn out badly.

She also notes that our insistence on personal choice in health care often leads to the obliteration of personal autonomy in late life, when the prohibitive cost of home care forces older people into low-rung institutions where they lose control of their lives.

But many readers here have made known their insistence on personal autonomy, their desire to have their lives end in just the way they have determined.

Jenner's insistence on personal authenticity after decades of distress and dissimulation — as recounted to Vanity Fair's Buzz Bissinger in an in-depth interview — was widely hailed.

There appears to be a struggle going on in fashion between a naturally occurring creative impetus and a cultural insistence that personal identity be affiliated with brands.