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    insistence


    1. At Naria's insistence he became the official Guild Representative to Aura


    2. At Heather’s insistence, Mr


    3. insistence that it would all be alright


    4. He’d couched his insistence on returning her as a matter of


    5. … The mind aroused by this insistence seeks and finds nothing but contradictions and nonsense


    6. But before disappearing the figure paused to throw a glance over the narrow shoulder, and Brynjolf caught a brief glimpse of an unfamiliar Dunmer man with very dark hair and red eyes that glowed with insistence


    7. Our insistence on seeing differences instead of similarities is the chief reason for the propagation of a divisive environment that we ironically, abhor


    8. In the clinical white-greyness of the observation room Torbin once again poured over the monitor logs, despite the b’tari technician’s insistence that if any anomaly had occurred it would have been detected


    9. Later that evening Roidon took Raiya on a tour of the complex, but only on Raiya’s insistence that she wanted to see for herself the true extent of his plan


    10. the beach house again for the first time since Tom’s death, then Jill’s insistence she get back into circulation

    11. He called it like he saw it, and for the most part, got everything right, especially the insistence of the inhabitants of the states he visited on the subject of equality


    12. He was prescient to observe that the insistence on equality would pull the best down to the lowest, and end up with America being a „Nation of Sheep


    13. The woman appeared utterly bamboozled over Elmira’s insistence that Adem and Jean sit together


    14. “For those who do not have a map in front of them, Obama"s insistence that


    15. We searched the neighborhood and, at Dad’s insistence, tacked signs on telephone poles and put an ad in the local newspaper


    16. The last time Monique had gone beyond the Earth's atmosphere was as a twelve-year-old on a high orbital cross globe sojourn, and to the moon two years earlier with her father, at her own insistence


    17. Soffen turned away looking at some distant place known only to her, and when she finally responded, it was with an insistence that brooked no argument


    18. But Skelda's prodding insistence shattered the shimmering image and the Preceptor turned away from the roots


    19. All I know is the Sleeping Man’s done them himself with no tools, bare hands and all that insistence on authentic stuff


    20. Keinalone, standing near her father, saw him become rigid in his insistence that the other’s son be retained as a hostage for the good faith performance of his adversaries

    21. It came from many of the settlement’s young women, abused by the designs of familial insistence


    22. But now, the vision of the unfortunate who had donated that scrap of cloth, at the vicious insistence of that Dgin of the water who had so mercilessly stripped it from her as he snuffed out her life as though it had been nothing


    23. The happier they sounded, the sadder she grew, finally it ground to a halt at the insistence of an older matron, who asked with all the respect that she could muster, “Why does our happiness make you sad? Should you not be elated to be restored to your rightful position? What is your wish for us?”


    24. He had been chosen, at her insistence, by her people, who were now his people


    25. And Man’s long-term insistence that part of his God’s nature was the capricious examples of it in the natural realm that Man had to contend with, was part of the confusion that Man himself had ritualized into his incorrect understanding, as was also indicated in Job’s story, that had led Man away from God’s real purpose concerning him


    26. “As a matter of fact, that has been attempted, at the insistence of this woman who calls herself Hamilton


    27. And why were the Hebrews so insistent that there was only one God among the many who had been worshipped from the beginning of their history? And, how long had this insistence been a part of their ritual declaration?


    28. Their insistence was a felt need over the centuries, a reminder not to break ranks


    29. But was their singular point of seeming originality, their insistence upon a corrupted version of a much older name, one that the Hebrews dared not use for so long, really just another copy? EL and AL (ah) does seem close


    30. The Catholic Inquisition, many centuries of single-minded insistence later on, was an unintended consequence of that exclusionary declaration

    31. It was, according to some sources, rejected many times by a majority of the council, until at the end and possibly at the insistence of Constantine himself, it was said to have been ever-so-reluctantly included


    32. At the insistence of


    33. Implicit in the insistence on strict obedience is the assurance of full


    34. On the scholar’s insistence he left


    35. Obviously this hedge, this insistence that there is little difference, is a motive among some groups who seem to champion the opposite of uniqueness


    36. “Neither Augustine nor Aquinas was a proto-Darwinist…What is striking about both of them, however, is their insistence on understanding and incorporating the best available non-theological thinking into our religious views


    37. The selfish, the bad, the evil has always been seen as the insistence on individual advantage at whatever cost, with all the endlessly argued variations in between


    38. He used such terms as ―autistic aloneness and insistence on sameness‖


    39. The Iranian president’s insistence on developing nuclear energy, coupled with his stated desire to eliminate Israel, represented to Kosmo and Jason, a major replay of history


    40. Aerith’s insistence that it was a short cut

    41. Cloud was frustrated at Aerith’s insistence on guiding him; he


    42. Honey became alarmed at the man’s insistence


    43. It was a simple hearing, Harry, on the pained insistence from John had pleaded not guilty to all charges which only left the court date to be determined


    44. I could see the strands of twigs attached to the end that stubbornly refused to yield to my brother’s insistence for a clean cut; I was able to study the weapon of choice for my brothers, the one that would ultimately end my life


    45. At the President’s blunt insistence the stimulus bill, though not one member had read even one of its 1100 pages, was jammed through Congress in about 48 hours


    46. Lukacs offers the thought that his insistence on the centrality and uniqueness of human beings is not arrogance, but in fact humility


    47. insistence on the spiritual side of things, as in philosophy or religion


    48. whose constant belief in me, and insistence on always growing and


    49. Joanne also intensely disliked the delays engendered by Stan’s, then my, insistence that the lab’s policies and procedures regarding green sheets and Program Directives be followed to the letter


    50. This insistence on Christian morality as the only thing God cares about us is of














































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    Synonyms for "insistence"

    insistence insistency insisting imperativeness press pressure decree direction order bidding behest will

    "insistence" definitions

    continual and persistent demands


    the state of demanding notice or attention


    the act of insisting on something