insistence
Example Sentences
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Many Iranians are linking their worsening quality of life to their government’s insistence on continuing the nuclear program.
The pending bankruptcy of the Big Three, he explained, was due to their insistence on making cars that consumers wanted that were profitable.
Announcing their decision to cancel, the Cookers said: "Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice."
From BBC
Yet Kip feels trapped by Scott’s insistence that they keep their romance a secret — a tale as old as the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
From Salon
As he has pivoted from this declaration a decade later, one would think his ego would bruise from his non-stop insistence that he’s too ignorant for anyone to expect him to know things.
From Salon
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