insistence
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What makes philosophy modern is the insistence that understanding alone is not good enough.
His father, a fire-and-brimstone-spouting church elder, ordered him back, demanding he care for his grandmother, Ella, with the stark insistence: “She’s not my responsibility. It’s not fair of you to put the burden on me.”
From Los Angeles Times
Despite the script’s insistence otherwise, Cuoco and Claflin have no more chemistry than figures on facing pages in a clothing catalog.
From Los Angeles Times
New Delhi’s insistence that Indian professionals get greater access to work in the EU, as well as demands to ease European environmental regulations that disadvantaged Indian steel, aluminum and cement exporters, proved insurmountable hurdles.
His insistence that the story about Jean and Stephen is true only makes it seem likely to be invented.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
