Example sentences of "[subord] insist on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much more his business to stir up curiosity than to insist on acceptances. , Pound as critic cuts the critic down to size ; which is , one may think , a pressing need , now , in 1984 . |
| 2 | The onus is on us to extend our understanding of that society , rather than to insist on seeing everything in terms of our ready-made distinctions . |
| 3 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 4 | The Albanian Communist Party was in favour of the adherence of Kosovo to Albania after the liberation , and the Yugoslav Party was adamantly opposed to any loss of prewar Yugoslav territory ( although insisting on the Italian surrender of Istria ) . |
| 5 | First , because insisting on positive images spells creative death : think of those tedious post-1980s guilt movies such as Regarding Henry and The Doctor , featuring dull-witted professionals gradually realising that Greed is Bad . |
| 6 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 7 | In practice , this may mean as little as insisting on modest changes in decision-making procedures and modes of academic debate ; or it may mean as much as the sacrifice of a whole way of life for activism in some major political cause . |