Sentence examples for strict insistence from inspiring English sources

They have been able to bend the ears of the chief executives, asking and receiving information that less important shareholders might not be able to hear.Technically, however, such selective briefing can fall foul of the Financial Services Authority FSAA), with its strict insistence on a blunt principle of equality of information.

Fiscal expansion is similarly blocked by Germany's unyielding insistence on strict budgetary discipline.

Mr. Boland contended that insistence on strict population equality would minimize any possibility of gerrymandering.

These signs of unrest, though, do not seem to be mellowing Germany's insistence on strict austerity.

Given the chancellor's insistence on strict budgetary discipline, this is an extraordinary position to end up in.

His insistence on strict vegetarianism and celibacy among his disciples, in keeping with the traditions of Vaishnava asceticism, also caused difficulty among some of his followers.

One of the defining features of Orthodox Judaism, compared with the other, more liberal branches, is the insistence on strict distinctions between men and women.

Pressure on EU leaders to relax their insistence on strict austerity measures intensified on Monday after Spain revealed that its economy contracted in the last three months of 2011 and the cost of insuring Portugal's debt soared to a record high.

Tanner guides us through Austen's novels from relatively sunny early works to the darker, more pessimistic Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection.

The 84-year-old American millionaire, known as "Slavery Avery" because of his uncompromising insistence on strict adherence to amateurism, resisted calls to suspend the Games for more than a token 24 hours, during which an emotional memorial service was held in the Olympic Stadium.

1555 Caen or near Caen, France October 16, 1628 Paris, France François de Malherbe, (born 1555, in or near Caen, Fr. died Oct. 16, 1628, Paris), French poet who described himself as un excellent arrangeur de syllabes and theoretician whose insistence upon strict form, restraint, and purity of diction prepared the way for French Classicism.