insist on doing something

Examples of insisting

insisting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And where scientific approaches tend to narrow down, insisting on procedural and stylistic conformity, performative ones sprout out, cultivating procedural and stylistic originality.
Publishers should be condemned for not insisting that authors cite sources of all information given in the text.
The tower construction enables one to treat-in a unified way-a larger class of dynamical systems without insisting on optimal results.
Either of these glosses hence undermines the rationale for insisting on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Western guitarists shock established aesthetics by deliberately using heavy distortion, insisting that sounds which had always been heard as 'noise' be reinterpreted as music.
By insisting that parties to deliberation not depart from public reason, they also propose to rigidify some of the structural disadvantages that marginalized groups confront.
We ended up working more on the hoof, but always insisting that the actors adhere to the values of fourth-wall realism.
However, he refused to start treatment for several months, insisting that he wanted his wife to become pregnant before he began the therapy.
By the twelfth century leaders of monasticism were insisting on the monk's individual choice.
This addition increases conceptual validity by insisting on harm, consistent with the harmful dysfunction analysis.
Sociologists have taken a similarly strong stance in insisting that their field offers a unique and indispensable contribution.
We must do so for the sake of democracy and for the sake of science, insisting upon the partnership between democratic experimentalism and scientific relentlessness.
This, again, is insisting on the priority of fidelity over neutrality.
Each group married and socialized only within itself, insisting on exclusivity and social distance from the other groups around it.
He must reassert his authority by silencing her threatening speech and insisting on his verbal command of the conversation.
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