"We will find out through this inquiry as to whether there was any laxity, any failure to measure up to the very highest standards that we insist upon for force protection," Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said in an interview on the CBS News program "Face the Nation".
In such cases, encouraging a healthy behavior, or discouraging an unhealthy one, ought to be a matter of public policy — which is why, for instance, we insist on vaccinating children for the measles, mumps, rubella and polio; we know these preventive strategies save lives.
Why can't we insist on something for a change?
Inspirited by our faith we insist on standards for protecting life such as buildings that won't collapse so easily, using warning signals against tsunamis, and levies that do not break so that we might protect as many as possible the next time a disaster occurs.
Speaking this month to a National Bar Association conference on racial profiling, Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater, who is black, said, "We must insist on zero tolerance for selective enforcement with the same commitment that we insist on zero tolerance for driving without a seat belt".
Will we insist on health care for the 10 million children with no coverage?
"We insist on equal rights for all and we will continue to stand up against those patriarchal values that are today being actively promoted by the church and the government.
On the contrary, we insist on remembering him for what he truly was, Stalin's apologist and a shill who helped cover up the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine.
Philip Pullman, author Why, when other countries such as France and Germany find no difficulty in including long-term considerations (the effect on unemployment, the protection of living city centres, the preservation of the craft base) into questions of procurement, do we insist on going only for the cheapest option and damn every other consequence?
This property originates from the folding of growing leaves and we insist on its importance for the final leaf shape.
For example, we insist upon upgrading our recording technologies every few years, each time orphaning millions of disks, reels and cassettes in older formats.
