insistence
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It was one of the cruelest play-offs I’ve ever seen in my decades of Oscar viewing, and an even bigger offense considering the ceremony’s insistence on positioning itself as a celebration of international film.
From Salon
His rootedness would prove costly after the war, despite his insistence that he was only serving music.
We have seen it elsewhere—immigration, most obviously: sound policies undermined by a curious insistence on conveying them to the public in a way that makes enemies for no obvious reason.
She rejected Thaler’s argument, as had the federal trial judge who first heard the case, that the Copyright Office’s insistence that the author of a work must be human was unconstitutional.
From Los Angeles Times
But despite my words, despite my insistence that we would see our parents again, there was a tiny part of me that knew Hannie was right, and that maybe we wouldn’t.
From Literature
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