Even as the scandal unfolded, the government was negotiating a $188m loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which insisted that the IHSS – now saddled with huge debts thanks to the embezzlement – should be privatised.
The case had led to a serious rift with America, which insisted Mr Davis enjoyed diplomatic immunity and should never have been detained.
The Palestinian Authority was soon locked in increasingly bitter struggles with Hamas, which insisted on the continuing need to stage terrorist attacks not only against Israeli soldiers and settlers in their midst, but also on civilians inside Israel.
The marketing men tried to woo Liverpool players with a document which insisted the new stand "will be uniquely Anfield", whatever that means.
So too with One Evening, which insisted that its performers perform not text, nor emotion, nor music, but gestures: turn this handle, squeeze this piece of leather, half-sing into that microphone.
Vaz's claims of fresh delays triggered a row with the Home Office and BAA, which insisted that the passport desks were properly staffed and the longest queue was less than an hour.
Foster constantly knocked heads with his DLJ-dominated board of directors, which insisted on signing off on every capital expenditure.
In the last two lines – the last 20 words of the poem have each only one stark syllable – you watch Heaney struggling between the world of painful fact and something in his own imaginative spirit which insists that language used with sombre tact and care "opts for the condition of overlife and rebels at limit": So that his eyes leave mine and I know The pain of loss before I know the term.
Both Iran - which insists it will work with the U.N. agency to prove allegations of a nuclear weapons agenda are "forged and fabricated" - and the IAEA said earlier that significant headway had been made on the procedural document.
Whoever designs the actual buildings will have to adhere to a preordained design code, which insists they "work in sympathy with surrounding character areas and architectural types without resorting to pastiche".
