Sentence examples for some insistence from inspiring English sources

After some insistence, we settled on Perella Paestum IGT De Conciliis 1998 ($18), reputedly excellent, but it arrived so chilled we couldn't taste it.

Despite some insistence that investors should bear some of the pain, the European Central Bank has been very skeptical about involving private sector holders of Greeks bonds in the second bailout, an aid package estimated at 85 billion euros ($121 billion).

This could imply that there was still some insistence on a Scottish variant after 1801.

Despite some writers' insistence that finding a successor is the biggest responsibility of any chief executive, no company now makes it a matter for the chief executive alone.

After some more insistence on our part that we didn't want to take up too much of his time, he insisted he was free all day, so we sat down for a slightly more formal interview.

This principle applied to Sessions's unwillingness to answer some questions at all, his insistence on some courtesies and his refusal to observe others, and his ideas about whose obligation it is to follow rules.

But even though that was perceived by some as an insistence that the midfielder will stay, it is still unclear what he plans to do.

Besides which, there are problems with some gay advocates' insistence that homosexuality be discussed and regarded as something ingrained at the first breath.

But as news is becoming more opinionated, both politics and the facts are suffering: witness some American conservatives' insistence that Barack Obama was born outside America, and others' refusal to accept that taxes must rise (see article).What is to be done?

In the second volume (1867), Helmholtz further investigated optical appearances and, more importantly, came to grips with a philosophical problem that was to occupy him for some years Kant's insistence that such basic concepts as time and space were not learned by experience but were provided by the mind to make sense of what the mind perceived.

He responds to Socrates' refutations by making a rather shrug-like suggestion that (contrary to his earlier explicit insistence) some pleasures are of course better than others (499b).