insist upon

Seven months after a Nevada teachers’ union first threw out that pitch, it is unclear whether voters will have a say — and whether Nevadans want to insist upon one.

"We will never know what might have been, the question Kissinger's apologists, and those in the U.S. foreign policy elite who imagine themselves standing in Kissinger's shoes, insist upon when explaining away his crimes," Ackerman added.

For various reasons — adventure! apocalypse! commerce! — we insist upon taking our corporeal selves off-world too.

Historian Caroline Elkins says the anticipated announcement by the monarch will be "an extraordinary moment" but adds that the right thing would be to "insist upon proper investigations, done by the government, to change history books, to change museums in Britain and to provide funding in Kenya to establish its own museums and cultural artefacts".

“We have urged the Indian government not to insist upon a reduction in Canada’s diplomatic presence and to cooperate in the ongoing Canadian investigation.”