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insist | American Dictionary

insist
verb
us/ɪnˈsɪst/
to state or demand forcefully, esp. despite opposition:
[ I ]She insisted on seeing her lawyer.
[ + (that) clause ]Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong.

insistent

adjectiveus/ɪnˈsɪs·tənt/
I heard a soft, insistent rapping at the door.

insistently

adverbus/ɪnˈsɪs·tənt·li/
She was insistently cheerful.

Examples of insist

insist
Yet, from the standpoint that insists that 'values', 'opinions' and 'tastes' influence decisions identically, such differences are invisible.
It does not shun predictions, but insists that predictions be based on models that capture underlying processes.
Despite their waning interest in genuine political reform, however, donors have continued to insist on nominally democratic systems.
The immigrants insisted that others should join them at their earliest opportunity.
Let us insist that special loci, which are the fixed-point sets of the action of the modular group are simultaneously algebraic, arithmetic and totally geodesic.
Jacksonians insisted that, like the common schools and the press, political parties were critical agencies of political learning.
Should they insist that workers have an "affirmative" right to better work conditions, a right that superseded their employers' freedom to contract?
Ministers in conflict with their parishioners were quick to insist on the obligations of unconditional obedience.
By contrast, all the protagonists of diphtheria antitoxin serum insisted that it was a therapeutic treatment.
Finally, the author insists that there should be a common syntactic analysis of these so-called operators, though it is rather unclear why.
They might insist, that is, that there are only negative duties and permissions, so that all acts of aid are supererogator y, not obligatory.
Both, however, insist that an understanding of the modern occult will change how we understand modernity.
For a similar reason we also insist that there must be at least one lambda.
Firstly, they insisted that they could like music without relating to it or identifying with it, and that songs couldn't teach them anything.
And where scientific approaches tend to narrow down, insisting on procedural and stylistic conformity, performative ones sprout out, cultivating procedural and stylistic originality.
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