insistence

"Their repeated pivots to answering questions about data security rather than devices, and insistence that the phones were broken down and sold for parts, without any evidence to support this assertion, was telling," she said.

They both bother me here and there — Anton’s drinking and Ali’s insistence on not picking up after herself, for example — but neither one of them seems like a bad person or a bad partner.

But rewritten laws will matter only if they are accompanied by public insistence that our leaders demonstrate good character and civic virtue by applying enacted laws in good faith.

His story is one of determination, unearthed as a rebuttal to the many insistences that he doesn’t belong in the Marines.

Muslim countries made a collective decision to issue a joint statement of support but to continue to signal their insistence on a full withdrawal by Israeli forces and a commitment to a Palestinian state.