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What does insistence mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being insistent.
  2. An urgent demand.
  3. (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
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The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor.
What unites both liberals and conservatives is their mutual insistence on the exclusivity and absoluteness of their vision.
In 1911, at his father's insistence, he sat the diplomatic service exams, passing with flying colours.
Hence, perhaps, her later insistence on singing to the captive audiences at her poetry readings.
A more literal reading relates us directly to the pattern of the cosmos, with its insistence on the separation of categories.
The Court's insistence on equal retirement ages in occupational pension schemes forced Britain to level ages up or down.

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