| Stubborn insistence on such a strategy is as likely as not to end in one's own defeat. |
| In 1911, at his father's insistence, he sat the diplomatic service exams, passing with flying colours. |
| What unites both liberals and conservatives is their mutual insistence on the exclusivity and absoluteness of their vision. |
| A more literal reading relates us directly to the pattern of the cosmos, with its insistence on the separation of categories. |
| The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor. |
| With firm insistence such as this, how could Charlie have withstood such opposition? |
