Sentence examples for through insisting from inspiring English sources

So many voices, I thought, trying to get through, insisting on their perpetuity.

Through insisting on the highest energy efficiency standards, Parik has driven the company's six-year transformation from one that commissioned electricity-guzzling glass monuments to ones that use only natural light and little or no air conditioning.

How can knowledge like that just get lost?" Blame the RFU for not agreeing in 2004 to the demands made by Woodward, who had just brought them the greatest triumph in their history through insisting on doing things his way.

The society invented science through insisting that logic be supported by empirical facts, by establishing that experiment could be described by mathematics, and by inventing peer review and scientific publishing to allow the verification, or otherwise, of scientific claims.In so doing, it revolutionised the way in which people think about the world.

How do we make this fly?" (Others dispute the notion that it was sloppiness that allowed Lansley's scheme through, insisting that Cameron approved it because he agreed with it: "It's worse than you think: he believes this stuff," says one friend, quoting – guess who – Blair).

Understanding contemporary social contract theory is best achieved, not through insisting on the distinction between actual and hypothetical contracts, but by grasping the interplay of the hypothetical and the actual.

"The term 'gatekeeper' assumes we're blocking something worthy coming through," Ergatoudis insists.

"When the original Don't Ask Don't Tell went through, I insisted on an amendment to object," Frank said.

This isn't to copy the rappers who come through, he insists: "I'm a wuss who got his eyes dilated and can't see".

Dot Records founder Randy Wood was looking for a song for a young Pat Boone to record in 1955 and found it in the Fats Domino hit "Ain't That a Shame?" Except Boone, then an English major, wanted to sing "Isn't That a Shame?" After a few run-throughs, Wood insisted, "It's got to be 'ain't'," and Boone soon had his first No. 1 single.

But Egypt will not allow anything else to pass through Rafah, insisting that all other aid travel first into Israel and then into Gaza.