Sentence examples for self insisted from inspiring English sources

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), once Northern Ireland's largest but today a shadow of its former self, insisted on voting against devolution of policing and justice powers.

In an interview from 2010, Lydia sounded much closer to, shall we say, her old self, insisting that "Pain always subsides, but wisdom, love, intensity, and genius feed the soul.

Is Sheila, a writer struggling under the long shadow of her mother, lacking that essential selfish self, the artistic self who insists on her own needs before any other's?

"I have self-respect," insisted the Englishman.

("My quietness has a number of naked selves," O'Hara insisted, elevating, as always, the protean over the stable).

That is, until the masses of the self-interested insisted on yakking loudly on their cellphones for the entirety of their 30 minutes on the ellipse.

The billionaire, who long boasted that he was self-funding, insisted that "much of the [money] goes to the Republican party" and that the donors will be "very rich people, very successful people, and in some cases very liberal people … who are voting for me".

Strangers could pick her out in a crowd, though they didn't really have to; her whole manner of self-presentation insisted on the celebrity treatment, which she shrewdly disparaged, in any celebrity limelight, as lacking "seriousness".