My hosts refused to accept the odoriferous evidence, insisting the pillows were clean. |
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They want decent meals and I am insisting that the food in the staff canteen should be the same as in the racecourse self-service restaurant. |
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Downing Street demanded a replacement, insisting that the Prime Minister would only be interviewed by a man. |
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The management is insisting that the drivers accept a fixed monthly salary instead. |
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He turned to the guard and began to list his demands, insisting on seeing his commander. |
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If public demand for Robbie singles is really insisting they come out earlier, why not today? |
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Regimental top brass are insisting that if it happens, the Duke's must retain the insignia and badges as well as their name. |
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Levi Strauss launched its Signature discount jeans in 2003, insisting they wouldn't cannibalize Levi's Red Tab department-store jeans. |
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By no means am I insisting that these three paintings literally constitute a triptych, religious or otherwise. |
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With teeth bared, he orders me off the premises, insisting, as he shows me the door, that he is not in any way being hostile. |
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From the outset he fought her corner, insisting her point of view be heard. |
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Once again last week, mothers were being held up as selfish and pig-headed for insisting on taking their children to school by car. |
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Couldn't this lead to pick-and-mix justice systems, someone insisting on the right to trial by combat or something? |
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She sorts the bread into different types and points out one piece that's full of candied fruit and spices, insisting I taste some. |
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He may start nitpicking over virtually every script point, insisting on protracted creative colloquies with his director. |
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Some of your Democratic colleagues are insisting, at this point, that you blundered on both votes. |
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Seth is very demanding of his boarders, insisting on advanced payment in full, and is preoccupied with maintaining a respectable house. |
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And I'm not insisting the whisperers, mumblers, droners and mic-dummies of this world be barred from reading their own poetry out loud. |
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They will then get around it by insisting on open slather for any product delivered digitally. |
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All going well, it could be the perfect antidote to those who are insisting that we return to some mythical, homogenised past. |
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But Royal Mail chiefs remained unrepentant, insisting its other services would meet the needs of businesses. |
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The local authorities are insisting that up to 50 per cent of the new homes have to be low-cost or social housing. |
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I suppose you think I'm rude and impertinent, barging in here and insisting I knew you. |
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Chocolate-cherry brioche bread pudding manages to be simultaneously chewy and light, none of its rich flavors insisting too hard. |
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Lawyers are criticised for insisting on forms and solemnities and actually taking out summonses, taking out orders, recording things properly. |
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Imagine him sticking to his guns and obstinately insisting that appeasement wasn't wrongheaded, there just wasn't enough of it. |
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She was not perturbed by the low attendance, insisting that most people on the street supported her position. |
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She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom. |
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While, BMRTL is planning to have standard gauge, the Railway Ministry is insisting on broad gauge. |
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The PM, all the while insisting the minister hadn't done anything wrong, gave him the hook. |
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Cooke gilded that story for days, insisting on its veracity and refusing to tell the police where the boy lived. |
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Republican leaders insisting that they would then respond by using the so-called nuclear option. |
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He may have made his name by insisting on good value for consumers, but his latest TV schtick is fast emerging as a bit of a swizz. |
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However, the geocentrists will have none of it, insisting that language and usage must conform to their standards. |
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A burly gentleman in plain clothes is insisting that we need a permit to photograph Burns outside Lenin's tomb. |
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The city's Finance Department has sent out some 2,000 letters, insisting that smokers pay back taxes on their cigs. |
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He himself has kept his counsel this week, insisting that it is not his place to defend himself. |
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Last night McLetchie hit back, insisting he would not allow his opponents to make political capital from his case. |
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A driver has hit back at claims he is a thug by insisting he was only protecting his eight-month old daughter. |
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For a team struggling to keep going, the double whammy of docking points and insisting on a replay is hard to fathom. |
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Back in 2002 Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Nice, and were rewarded for doing their democratic duty by Eurocrats insisting they vote again. |
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Gingrich has since walked back those comments, insisting he is focused on the economic crisis. |
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Epstein is quite right in insisting that this issue must be dealt with as a question of principle. |
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Some verbs are standardly said to be much more rigid, insisting on an overt direct object noun phrase. |
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Here's a case where a POW was likely murdered, yet they are the same ones insisting that we leave the despot in power. |
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He sometimes warps individual works by doggedly insisting that they illustrate Derridean concepts. |
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She makes up for it by insisting on going Dutch on less formal occasions and making us dinner at her place fairly often. |
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My twelfth birthday was coming up, and I demanded my mother buy it as a present, even insisting that it be gift-wrapped at extra cost. |
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Gordon complicates this situation by insisting that Kelvin's dead wife is an alien and should be shot with her ray gun. |
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The Resale Prices Act prevents a manufacturer insisting on a price at which a retailer or wholesaler must sell its products to their customers. |
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The Reaganites didn't want to adopt it at first, but eventually did because too many people in their own party began insisting on it. |
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The Georgian side is insisting on an early withdrawal of Russian military facilities from the country's territory. |
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But workers at the Richmond plant are insisting on a wage premium that would offset the San Francisco Bay Area's high cost of living. |
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America had been insisting the World Bank was recompensed through cuts in aid programmes to Africa. |
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Businesses have complained of unreliability and, in some cases, resorted to insisting customers send routine letters by recorded delivery. |
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He kept insisting that I would have plenty of milk there to feed my recently born twins. |
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I managed to ease him out by insisting on demonstrations that had to be practised in rehearsals and soon we dropped the show. |
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Laws against adultery are a natural outgrowth of laws and customs insisting that marriages be monogamous. |
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But Washington is insisting that more negotiations are needed before the long-running dispute can be wrapped up. |
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Note how many quotes are from wounded Kurds insisting that they do not blame the Americans. |
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As he keeps insisting, there is still some way to go before his Spurs side can consider themselves worth a fresh chorus of hallelujahs. |
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The appellant gave evidence insisting that he had no involvement in any of the hangings. |
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Authoritative parents respect children's individualism while insisting they meet reasonable requirements. |
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But friends and colleagues leapt to his defence, insisting they had issued a public thank you for his rescue. |
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This persistence continued with the boy insisting that we have sweets at his employer's stall. |
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He denied all the allegations, insisting that he had simply been asked to check a visa application form to see it was filled in correctly. |
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The council stands by its decision, insisting that the consultation process has been followed to the letter. |
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Furious protesters from the genuine rally had attempted to grab the placards and rip them up, insisting it was not time for jokes. |
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The Bush administration backed off its previous position insisting on linkage. |
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The university last night hit back by insisting it was not funding students to go on a glorified pub crawl. |
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Maybe I'm missing the point and insisting on a literalism that isn't there. |
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It can be just as misleading to be overexact, by insisting on distinctions finer than the context makes necessary, as to be careless. |
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However, she is insisting that the Social Democrats recognise her claim to the chancellery before she agrees to hold formal coalition talks. |
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The Opposition Leader intensified his attack on the Prime Minister, insisting he had lied to the public. |
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She kept insisting that accepting the gifts did not mean she was rejecting Jason. |
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However, he later admitted it, insisting his description of Jones was being quoted out of context. |
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He made me drink this glass of chalky, orangey liquid, insisting that it would make me feel better. |
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However, all sides are insisting this is a temporary hiccup that can be overcome. |
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In their place, Echenoz proposes a rhetoric of platitude, insisting upon the commonplace, the dull, the ordinary. |
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The groups then fell to arguing amongst themselves each insisting its definition was correct and all the others were wrong. |
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However, Scrooge-like Post Office executives are insisting that branch offices should remain open until 4pm this year. |
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So they parted, with Drake insisting that he had important family matters to take care of. |
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It will claim he was difficult to work with, insisting on micro-managing the project. |
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He may, thus, decide to claim payment at the appropriate date of maturity without insisting on having the lost receipt replaced. |
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By demanding austerity while insisting on liberalization, it disregards basic social needs. |
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That is why the ruling class is insisting on the formation of a national unity government to push through its agenda. |
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In England the home secretary is insisting that much government information will remain a state secret for 30 years. |
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His publicist has since clarified the quotes, insisting the actor wasn't trying to throw shade at the 39-year-old star. |
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He vigorously denies pressurising pupils, insisting the ethos is about making the work interesting, so they become self-motivated to learn. |
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And the hag, insisting that she felt a child quick within her, begged Bourgeois to feel how the wee jester cut a caper in her belly. |
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By insisting, however, on such a stiff income tax rate, the allied powers had created ample opportunities for the scheme just described. |
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Eventually he let me go, thankfully without insisting I forfeit my memory card or grovel at his feet or sign a written apology. |
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They keep insisting every now and then that saner sense prevails, after all. |
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He has leapt to the defence of his under-fire team-mate, insisting that the Tobagonian striker can still cut the mustard in top-flight football. |
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If only such people could focus their energies on the real issues in society, rather than insisting on shooting the messenger. |
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It was the demands of his little granddaughter, insisting he untie a balloon. |
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But it made her resent them for insisting so forcefully that she go along on the trip. |
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Hard-core government loyalists increasingly are insisting that the French clear a buffer zone between north and south to allow government forces to attack the rebels again. |
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Corrin buckled first, insisting that Harris sleep on a sofa, then moving out. |
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This season the World Snooker Association bowed to calls from players to do away with the rule insisting they wear bow ties, white shirts and waistcoats. |
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Justice Harlan famously dissented in Plessy, insisting that the Constitution is colorblind. |
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In their dancing, in their minstrelsy and then in ragtime, black Americans were insisting on setting European-style music free by refusing to be restricted to a ground beat. |
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The council concluded with the emperor Constantine insisting that the bishops come to an agreement over the wording of the creed. |
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Go back as far as you like, you'll find literary theorists insisting that Lies Are Good while historians adversarially promote an ethos of Just-the-Facts. |
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Moriarty overcomes the predictability by insisting on the complexity of Cora, who is both flat and expansive as a character. |
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I wait in a line of a million people, most of whom are going to South America, and the rest of whom are insisting that they get hotel rooms before other people get rebooked. |
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The force has not disclosed exactly how weapons would be confiscated from any recalcitrant gunmen, insisting only that they would be vigorous in enforcing the rule. |
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But Habib has yet to appear publicly, and Syrian state media denied the defection, insisting that Habib was still at home. |
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Priebke was defiantly unapologetic for his crimes, always insisting he was only following orders even though he was a top chief. |
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She could easily have ruined his career with a harassment suit but instead chose to just walk away, and he's insisting we reprimand her for doing so. |
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However, the poet faithfully defended his livelihood, insisting that engraving was a true art. |
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Science on the other hand normally sticks to the answerable questions, and can afford the luxury of insisting on truth and proof in its reporting. |
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Rather than directly answering her questions, however, he almost maddens his listener by insisting upon telling Jane her own story, the story of the governess who left. |
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For his part, the defendant repeatedly proclaimed his innocence, insisting he had dug deep into his own pockets to bail the church out of financial difficulties. |
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Prosecutors have fought the process, insisting that Maharaj is guilty and must remain behind bars. |
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News broke Tuesday night that the Republicans were rejecting that and insisting on seven Republicans and five Democrats. |
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In a statement, Wednesday, Winston admitted to not paying for his dinner, insisting that he forgot. |
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The magical thinking lies not in saying that the world is interconnected, but rather in insisting that there is no overlap. |
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Carrie is still insisting that Javadi stop Brody's execution when Javadi interrupts her. |
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Her family claims her innocence, refuting charges that she is a maneater by insisting that she was a tomboy and a late bloomer. |
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He insisted on representing himself at his trial, and wore a white sheet wrapped around him like a toga during closing arguments, insisting he was a prophet. |
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You can't walk down the streets in the touristy harbor front area without being accosted by ambitious salesmen insisting you order a suit from the tailor they represent. |
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Separatists in Lugansk calling themselves the Southeastern Army are insisting Kiev recognize them as a formal military unit. |
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John Sargent, the CEO of Macmillan, today published a letter insisting that he did not act illegally, and there was no collusion. |
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See, the Americans are insisting that the Australians will be tough, but the Aussies think it's all a mind game meant to put the pressure on them. |
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It transpired that the new owners have appealed against the island being designated a right-to-roam area, insisting that it could suffer serious erosion if walked upon. |
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Contemporary reports from Mustique's white sands had her down as a royal prima donna insisting on protocol even while sipping cocktails in a two-piece. |
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Western aid workers dispute this, insisting that the idea of Liberian kids informing on their parents is an urban legend. |
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They have even achieved the ultimate in cynicism by insisting that the freedom of consumer choice and the freedom of the individual are one and the same thing. |
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Then we had to haggle over which ones would be best, with him holding out for bluepoints and me insisting on something more exotic from the 18 or so listed on the menu. |
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Will they be insisting on American peacekeeping forces, and billions of dollars in American aid? |
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Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city. |
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Most of them, I believe, are altogether vaguer, more non-committal, not so much insisting on the reality of heaven as refusing to believe in the finality of death. |
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Rahman stood his ground, insisting that his daughter was too young to be engaged. |
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The promise so rankled the Taliban they issued a statement insisting that Pakistan should reject all foreign aid. |
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The government is sheltering behind these workers, insisting that it can't drop the opt-out because that would effectively mean legislating a pay-cut for 1.6 million workers. |
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Undeterred, Supaporn, accompanied by one of her employees, followed the man down the street and onto the beach, still insisting he pay up on the 10 bar chits. |
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College managers are insisting that students and staff wear photographic identity cards on colour coded ribbons visible at all times to security guards. |
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He claims that Jazz City has offered to pay the money in installments, but that the Journal has declined, insisting that it be paid in one lump sum. |
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But he was insisting that his recent abject flip-flop had not made him look like complete idiots in the eyes of the international legal community. |
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Labor is also insisting that its policy certainly does not mean a return to pattern bargaining or flow-on effects of wage increases in one sector leading to another. |
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He denied reports that he had agreed a lucrative counter-offer to play in Saudi Arabia, insisting he was looking forward to playing for Wanderers in the Premiership. |
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The latter is a much more open question, not foreclosing the possibility of radical surprise but insisting that there should be evidential backing for what is being asserted. |
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Ireland had been fighting to put provisos into the clauses, but had not been insisting that the link between immigration, aid and trade policies be removed. |
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The drinks industry and publicans have made a guarded response to the moves, insisting they already support the drive to encourage more responsible drinking. |
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You'll need something better than insisting that I or my hypothetical puppetmasters have something to gain from the status quo to argue your point. |
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The government should, if necessary, be willing to run a deficit, he said, insisting the collapse of the cattle industry would devastate the entire provincial economy. |
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We're not against the motorway and we're not insisting that the dig go on indefinitely, but we want it done properly, with due regard for the importance of this site. |
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Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, sticking to duty or insisting on our rights, we can be confused or paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. |
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An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer. |
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Juventus spokesman Alessio Secco dashed hopes of a life-saving deal by insisting that his club wants ALL their money. |
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Recognizing the futility of his efforts and insisting on upholding his edict, Diocletian ordered that George be executed for his refusal. |
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Mayor Bloomberg and Ms. Wittenberg had repeatedly stood behind the plan, insisting it was best for the city. |
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Mr. Hitchens discussed the possibility of a deathbed conversion, insisting that the odds were slim that he would admit the existence of God. |
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Powhatan responded by insisting that the English either stay in their fort or leave Virginia. |
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The community has been the focus of the fever-swamp for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp. |
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Where he failed to find 5 genera, he left a blank insisting that a new genus would found to fill these gaps. |
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The Portuguese had started out by insisting on being given preferential treatment in every aspect of the trade. |
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Comically, the boy strikes a pose of romantic Weltschmerz, insisting he is deeply unhappy and shall never marry. |
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However, Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight. |
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The advantage in being able to do this lies in the creation and maintenance of an endonorm rather than blindly insisting on an exonorm. |
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A WELSH professor has dismissed the effect of a sugar rush in children, insisting it does not cause hyperactivity in children. |
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Lampson argued for another attempt and prevailed, Thomson insisting that the technical problems were tractable. |
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Indeed, the MP echoed these words, insisting that Euro-American colonization was masking itself with a new approach towards the entire East. |
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He divided it among his siblings, except for Margarete, insisting that it not be held in trust for him. |
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They refuse to disassociate their art from their everyday lives, insisting that everything they do is art. |
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Yet Bailey backpedals by insisting that certain stylistic qualities consistently recur and are identifiably Jesuit. |
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But insisting that all our assumptions be validated only by direct observation would leave us in a permanent state of omphaloskepsis. |
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He draws on comedic examples from many different eras and genres, insisting that it's enough if an event or experience was funny for someone. |
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West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo defended his stumper, insisting he genuinely thought the ball hadn't touched the ground. |
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Gilbert is a perfect autocrat, insisting that his words should be delivered, even to an inflection of the voice, as he dictates. |
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However, Daniel has denied the reports, insisting he has no intensions to do the role. |
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The US ambassador to London demurred, insisting it was far too early to put a 'tombstone' over the special relationship. |
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A director, with whom she had been rehearsing a monodrama for a few months, was insisting that they meet in his apartment. |
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Greg Minikin will dig for victory today insisting parttimers York won't become shrinking violets at the home of Super League champions St Helens. |
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Firstly, Spain was insisting on a time element for a full transfer of sovereignty to Spain. |
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The British then proposed to send their own mission, insisting that the Russians be sent away. |
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Without insisting on a difference between the inventors and the spellers of words, Socrates makes short work of this case. |
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Eiffel is somewhat purist about insisting that functions have no side effects. |
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Foxe downplays Chaucer's bawdy and amorous writing, insisting that it all testifies to his piety. |
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He abnegated responsibility by insisting it was all just a matter for the police. |
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Serial sledger James Anderson claims he intends to continue to engage in heated exchanges on the field, insisting it helps him get the best out of himself. |
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He believes the regional board may have misinterpreted the rule book and was under the mistaken belief that the party was insisting on shortlists of two candidates. |
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She's driving me meshuga with all her memos to Schultz insisting we no longer give the children graham crackers after recess and instead provide granola bars and dried fruit. |
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With trouble clearly brewing, Henry attempted to defuse the situation by insisting that Richard and Geoffrey give homage to Young Henry for their lands. |
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Such fetishes as insisting on It's I, not ending sentences with prepositions, and avoiding split infinitives are all dismissed as the nonsense they are. |
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On arrival at the vicarage Emily Huskisson refused to allow the jury to view the body, insisting on being allowed to remain alone with her husband. |
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The Lords, supportive of the king, were not swayed, and Charles himself eventually rejected the Resolutions, insisting that the Commons trust him. |
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The Commons responded to these measures by insisting that the Magna Carta, which expressly forbade the imprisonment of freemen without trial, was still valid. |
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He was forced to defend his poor form, insisting that he was not finished. |
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Watkins had developed a serious heart condition, which he made light of, insisting on playing his beloved tennis and squash with his usual vigour. |
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Yet Mr. Weinstein was also markedly buoyant, insisting that the ministudio had not so much failed in its aims as succeeded in ways not widely understood. |
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Mozart himself was reportedly circumspect about his changes, insisting that any alterations to Handel's score should not be interpreted as an effort to improve the music. |
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Later emperors like Julian the Apostate tried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on trustworthy mintings of the bronze currency. |
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Bath City Council issued a notice insisting it should be repainted. |
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Throughout his life, Wesley remained within the established Church of England, insisting that the Methodist movement lay well within its tradition. |
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Malcolm arrived there on 24 August 1093 to find that William Rufus refused to negotiate, insisting that the dispute be judged by the English barons. |
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Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. |
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At the same time, he was also making a transition in his approach to physics, becoming more intuitive and speculative rather than insisting on mathematical proofs. |
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Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave. |
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Langland is, I think, optimistically insisting on the accommodatedness even of the fallen world of sin and suffering to the spiritual aspirations of man. |
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But the man who calls himself an adopted Dundonian showed his commitment to the cause by insisting on lacing up his boots again at a wintry Dens Park. |
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Fulham 1 Rotherham 1 STEVE EVANS' bad week got worse with the Rotherham manager insisting his side were denied a crucial win by a blatant handball. |
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Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is insisting that decentralism and devolution should occur regardless if Scotland vote for independence or not. |
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Unfortunately, Steve and stickybeak Miranda spot them, and she can't help spilling the beans to Susan, despite Rachel insisting she'd tell her stepmum herself. |
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When they could find no one, the master pilot Simon Fernandez refused to let the colonists return to the ships, insisting that they establish the new colony on Roanoke. |
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