How To Use Insisting In A Sentence
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Insisting he did not pay too much attention to polls, Mr Kenny pointed out that a great deal of organisational work had been done in the last nine months, which would not be visible to the public.
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Over all those years she kept insisting - largely to an unhearing school administration - that the children who were sent to her didn't have reading problems.
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The Kremlin is still insisting on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
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By insisting that Aristotelian forms were spiritual substances distinct from matter, professors equally made room for the logical possibility of bodiless invisible spirits at work in the universe.
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The mistake was Team McCain not insisting upon its own team of watchers / video to resplice all that hit the cutting room floor at CBS.
Ace of Spades HQ
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Cooke gilded that story for days, insisting on its veracity and refusing to tell the police where the boy lived.
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Authoritative parents respect children's individualism while insisting they meet reasonable requirements.
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Time and again, Ike put up with the foibles, discourtesies, and downright arrogance of his official subor dinate, while at the same time insisting that his major decisions be carried out.
General Ike
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The appellant gave evidence insisting that he had no involvement in any of the hangings.
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I lately had occasion to justify an action to a man," went on Clowes, "but, no, the scurvy fellow would put no faith in my words, insisting that the person I sought to clear was covinous and tricky, and wholly unworthy of trust.
Janice Meredith
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The groups then fell to arguing amongst themselves each insisting its definition was correct and all the others were wrong.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has refused to give in to growing public pressure, insisting that the pension overhaul is needed to prevent the system from going broke.
French Unions Announce More Strikes
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They want decent meals and I am insisting that the food in the staff canteen should be the same as in the racecourse self-service restaurant.
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During the 17th century, Thomas Sydenham founded the discipline of nosology by insisting that diseases had their own natural history and could be described and classified on the basis of their specific characteristics.
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While insisting on the doctrine of numerus of IPR, there is no conclusion that we should be against judicial activism and restrict judge-made law.
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He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management.
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Yet is there not something trivial and demeaning about insisting that the'real' meaning of ancient texts is the path to peace and common understanding?
Times, Sunday Times
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I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city.
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The Buddha's aversion to speculation did not prevent him from insisting on the importance of a correct knowledge of our mental constitution, the chain of causation and other abstruse matters; nor does it really take the form of neglecting metaphysics: rather of defining them in a manner so authoritative as to imply a reserve of unimparted knowledge.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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Downing Street demanded a replacement, insisting that the Prime Minister would only be interviewed by a man.
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So why then is a government supposedly devoted to fostering British science still insisting on forcing some of its leading researchers into Dickens's ‘perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law’?
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One of the McCain campaign's chief assaults on Barack Obama is that McCain is insisting that the troops return only after "victory" in Iraq, while Obama refuses to use that word -- a position the McCain forces describe as tantamount to wanting to lose.
Petraeus: I Don't Know That I Will Ever Use The Word "Victory" For Iraq
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The company, insisting on technology, innovation, unyieldingness and challenging, participate actively to international economy cycle, and contribute to the nation's development.
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The Bush administration backed off its previous position insisting on linkage.
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I argue that it was mainly by insisting upon the ontological implications of this concept of possibility that he came to form a concept of contingency that he considered sufficiently strong to counter Spinozist necessitarianism.
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Having seen and read the reports and highlights from today's PMQs and read a fair few blog posts about it, I just wonder what Gordon Brown think he sounds like when he relentlessly drivels on about Tory cuts vs Labour investment insisting that Labour will increase spending in real terms in the next few years.
What does Gordon Brown think he sounds like?
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Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, sticking to duty or insisting on our rights, we can be confused or paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless.
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While not anti-English, it is decidedly pro-Gaelic (even insisting on Gaelic names in cases where anglicised forms are far more familiar to Scots) and tends to be anti-Presbyterian.
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He made sure his drivers were smart, wearing their company livery and insisting on ties being worn while driving.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hated the phrase “student body,” for instance, insisting that “studentry” was both clearer and without the ghoulish connotations he saw in the former term.
On writing by stephen king
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As for the disagreement between him and Sen. John McCain about the future of the country, Obama again took the high road, insisting he was not interested in having a "colloquy" with the Arizona senator over the next four or five days about the issue because it was not in the best interests of the country.
Hullabaloo
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McConnell's aides rushed to his defence yesterday, insisting unconvincingly that, had he failed to check on whether he needed to register the painting, the media would have hounded him over the issue.
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But Republicans have refused any effort to "decouple" the two categories, insisting on extending both for the same duration, in order to avoid having to push for extending just the tax cuts for the rich later.
The Morning Plum
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It was just another boring city, filled with meddlesome people and merchants who like to drag you to their stands against your wishes, insisting that you buy something outrageously overpriced.
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Now, they are again insisting that their beef is safe, but that assertion is questionable given that there is currently no reliable way to test live animals to see if they are harbouring the disease.
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And as Obama clops off after having clinched the delegate count last night, she squats on the field of battle, hemorrhaging cash from four stumps with no fresh infusion in sight, insisting that the fight to this point is a draw.
Chip Collis: Dame Hillary Clinton: the Black Knight
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In a delicate balancing act, he will try in his closing speech to the Conservative party conference on Wednesday to re-energise the country by insisting that despite the pessimism over the economy, politics and society, "the country's best days are not behind us".
David Cameron to urge households to pay off debts
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Nevertheless, Bichat rendered a solid service to physiological progress by insisting upon the fact that what we call life, in one of the higher animals, is not an indivisible unitary archaeus dominating, from its central seat, the parts of the organism, but a compound result of the synthesis of the separate lives of those parts.
Science & Education
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The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
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I am insisting on a bed in that room for me, and since Pumpkinpie's daybed is working so well, I am looking at a daybed of simple silver steel tubes, something I can see in a boy's room or a girl's room, really, whereas most daybeds lean towards the feminine.
Blue.
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Lawyers are criticised for insisting on forms and solemnities and actually taking out summonses, taking out orders, recording things properly.
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Croydon Corporation were insisting on specially dressed stone setts.
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Contemporary reports from Mustique's white sands had her down as a royal prima donna insisting on protocol even while sipping cocktails in a two-piece.
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In their dancing, in their minstrelsy and then in ragtime, black Americans were insisting on setting European-style music free by refusing to be restricted to a ground beat.
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He shrouded their work in mystery, insisting that no outsider be told what they were up to.
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The night before the princess wed he tried to steal into her bed, insisting that if he could not have her hand, he would claim her maidenhead.
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His widow recalled finding his body and not crying for the cameras, insisting that the business would continue.
Times, Sunday Times
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But that hasn't stopped the lacto-lobby from insisting that rBST is actually a super-duper eco-friendly way to farm 'cause it lets you wring more milk out of fewer cows, thereby curbing a dairy farmer's carbon hoofprint.
Kerry Trueman: You Heard It On Oprah: Factory Farms Stink
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In spite of contrary statements from others in the administration, Cheney is still insisting.
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Oh, you mean he doesn't ***really*** want to follow God's Law, but wants to do what all fundagelicals do, and pretend that God's Law is what ever bits of the Bible they *want* to follow, while insisting Jesus, in obviously one of his "unpublished" works, overturned the bits they don't?
Huckabee Says US Constitution Should Reflect "God's Standards"
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But anarchy soon arrived in the form of a skinny ingénue insisting on a boy's bag.
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But Royal Mail chiefs remained unrepentant, insisting its other services would meet the needs of businesses.
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Last night McLetchie hit back, insisting he would not allow his opponents to make political capital from his case.
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Works like Philip Kuhn's "Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China" (1970) place the story in the context of China's long history of struggles between dynasties and those seeking to topple them, while Jen Yu-wen's "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" (1973) goes further, insisting that Hong's movement had more in common with the revolutions that followed it than rebellions of earlier times.
The Battle for China's Soul
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They were being unnecessarily pedantic by insisting that Berry himself, and not his wife, should have made the announcement.
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One way of understanding (Hyslop, 1995, chapter 8) what has been called the attitudinal approach to other minds (Wittgenstein, 1953, p. 178) is to see it as a variant of the criterial solution; but going beyond other uses of criteria in insisting that our conception of other human figures is that they are souls, have experiences.
Other Minds
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Patrick Connor was sipping herbal tea and lotting up his night's takings when Wednesday, his young secretary, told him a woman was outside insisting she wanted to see him.
Faceless
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The wonderful solidarity of domestic life is an important factor in the Chinese career, for centuries of ancestor-worship, in spite of their arrestive tendency, have strengthened the bonds of family union and filial obedience by insisting on the supreme sanctity of blood-relationship.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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The boss also told his lover to delete messages, insisting that he was doing the same.
The Sun
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There is a vast difference between recognising our frailty which is a fact, and insisting that our nature is made up of nothing else, which is not a fact.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Jerry Seinfeld's model ex-girlfriend Susan McNabb has blasted the comedian for attempting to diffuse domestic disputes on new comedy show "The Marriage Ref" - insisting the funnyman was a bad communicator.
Starpulse Entertainment News
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The drinks industry and publicans have made a guarded response to the moves, insisting they already support the drive to encourage more responsible drinking.
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The 55 signatories of the letter insisting he is wrong can't deny the logic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dr. Madden left her, telling her that she was not pregnant, and when she reappeared at his office in a few days, he reassured her of the nonexistence of pregnancy; she became very indignant, triumphantly squeezed lactescent fluid from her breasts, and, insisting that she could feel fetal movements, left to seek a more sympathetic accoucheur.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The management is insisting that the drivers accept a fixed monthly salary instead.
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Instead, he is insisting on the release of prisoners serving longer sentences for serious security offences to make the gesture more meaningful.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will claim he was difficult to work with, insisting on micro-managing the project.
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He allegedly refused to treat the boy, insisting that he should be taken to hospital.
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Purchasing agents are expert at either ignoring such additions or insisting that they ought to be free.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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Neither insisting on the greatness of these writers nonetheless, nor attempting to reinterpret or literally retranslate them into contemporary idioms and assumptions will forestall this for long.
Canonical Writers
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Mister President Cool may have belled the cat by insisting on an automatic trigger to slash spending in two sacred cows -- Medicare and defense equally -- if $1.5 billion worth of deficit cuts aren't made by Congress in November.
Diane Francis: Did Obama Bell the Cat?
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As a curial is a gentleman and a government magistrate, the punishment is just enough; but why should Cassiodorus (certainly not King Dietrich) finish a short letter by a long dissertation on volcanoes in general, and Stromboli in particular, insisting on the wonder that the rocks, though continually burnt, are continually renewed by 'the inextricable potency of nature;' and only returning to Jovinus to inform him that he will henceforth follow the example of a salamander, which always lives in fire, 'being so contracted by natural cold, that it is tempered by burning flame.
Roman and the Teuton
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He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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She was not perturbed by the low attendance, insisting that most people on the street supported her position.
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Once again last week, mothers were being held up as selfish and pig-headed for insisting on taking their children to school by car.
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Some of your Democratic colleagues are insisting, at this point, that you blundered on both votes.
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Agee refuses to cast his sharecroppers as representatives of a class only, insisting instead on the complex interaction between type and particular individual, between commodity and artifact.
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This model of politics proceeds by first insisting that political choices are necessarily arranged along a spectrum from left to right.
Times, Sunday Times
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Madeleine will not go gently into this sinister night, nor will Usher let her, insisting that her coffin remain unnailed, which, in effect, precipitates a supernatural spill between worlds.
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He kept in view both the material and the symbolic, the public and private, the ‘outer’ culture and ‘inner’ psyche, while also insisting on the interpenetrations between these terms.
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Ministers are likely therefore to play down any proposal for an American-style grid system, insisting that it would be looked at for research purposes only.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boss also told his lover to delete messages, insisting that he was doing the same.
The Sun
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Then a nurse came bustling around the bed, insisting that she needed more tests.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have even achieved the ultimate in cynicism by insisting that the freedom of consumer choice and the freedom of the individual are one and the same thing.
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By no means am I insisting that these three paintings literally constitute a triptych, religious or otherwise.
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Yet is there not something trivial and demeaning about insisting that the'real' meaning of ancient texts is the path to peace and common understanding?
Times, Sunday Times
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Lwi stopped listlessly, and he slid down in desperation and took the reins and began to lead him, insisting he keep moving, up and up the hili.
The Goblin Mirror
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The accountancy firm was forced to change its policy of insisting on heels of between 2 in and 4 in for the role.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was dazed but still insisting that he was innocent.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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Laws against adultery are a natural outgrowth of laws and customs insisting that marriages be monogamous.
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There is a strong argument for insisting that he is the outstanding performer in any ball game.
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Harrison an excuse for insisting on weekly repetitions of what he called their historical picnics.
Short Stories of Various Types
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She kept insisting that accepting the gifts did not mean she was rejecting Jason.
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By the end of the story the professor has abandoned his native tongue altogether, and is haranguing his readers in Pagolak, insisting that if only they'd pay due attention, then ‘tak nalaman namele Pagolak kama’.
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A burly gentleman in plain clothes is insisting that we need a permit to photograph Burns outside Lenin's tomb.
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a tiny little whimper called me away, and Miss Clare accompanied me; the gentlemen insisting that we should return as soon as possible, and bring the homuncle, as Roger called the baby, with us.
The Vicar's Daughter
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September 8th, 2009 TILA TEQUILA has blasted her American football star boyfriend SHAWNE MERRIMAN - insisting allegations she was "inebriated" prior to his arrest on suspicion of choking and restraining her are false.
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And while on the subject of handkerchiefs, Brodie Ross's Roderigo is the best ever – a hilarious wimp, blubbing into his soggy hankie, insisting on repeated hugs from Iago.
Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review
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What is MY trying to say except that the evil neocons are boorishly insisting too loudly on points that he and his buddies consider deserving of more discrete modulation?
Matthew Yglesias » Birds of a Feather
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He performed a samba that was clean, energetic and crisp, but the judges gave him very flimsy scores - tying him for last place in the round - insisting that his style was too "balletic" for the samba and that his feet weren't pointed correctly.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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By insisting on carrying the heavy suitcase, fixing your own cable box, and opening every jar of pickles, you're proving what a strong, modern woman you are, right?
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Once again last week, mothers were being held up as selfish and pig-headed for insisting on taking their children to school by car.
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He criticised Goliath for insisting that our economic woes began elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition, the legislation is intended to make the Fed more accountable to elected officials by insisting on reforms.
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In the event, father-of-three Whittock came away with just £1,000 after falling foul of a cookery question and insisting that Greek keftedes, or meatballs, were sweet pastries.
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Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English (which is why the president stopped doing it after the first time at his press conference), unlike my correspondent's simple preference for a monophthong over a diphthong, and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn't be giving in to.
Terrance Heath: Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2
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Insisting as I do on the priority of divine grace, I can accept the doctrine of predestination in certain forms.
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The Orthodox among us were at least as imaginative as any of the rest, though, of course, always insisting upon strict obedience to Jewish law in our conventicles and retreats.
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He said he was pessimistic about current peace prospects, partly because Israel continued to build settlements -- but also because of the Palestinian leadership's "recalcitrance" in insisting on a total settlement freeze and its rejection of Israel's partial settlement freeze as sufficient grounds to restart talks.
JTA - Recent News
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At one point she bursts into tears, insisting she looks ugly.
The Sun
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Fortunately for me, they often give the game away by insisting that Kirlian photography shows the bioenergetic field surrounding the human body or by praising William Reich's Orgone Therapy.
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By 1836 he began studying medicine, insisting upon civil rights, and preaching professional training for African Americans rather than barbering or manual labor suggestive of servant or second-class status.
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If public demand for Robbie singles is really insisting they come out earlier, why not today?
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And he took another swipe at Hamilton this week, insisting he was right to accuse him of driving too slowly.
The Sun
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In addition the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has thrown in his two penn'orth by insisting that parade organisers employ marshals to man the route at the princely sum of £50 per day per marshal.
Remembrance Day Parades Under Threat
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I wish that he had made the difficult decision to live within his budget instead of insisting that a fictional future of bounteous budgets was coming again.
Griffin Uses Hand Picked Media Opportunity to Warn of Layoffs - NASA Watch
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Strikingly apolitical and averse to the urgent rebelliousness of others, emos are happy to admit that they have no ideology beyond insisting on their right to do what they want.
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He was an evangel for photography, insisting that it be recognized as an art, and so he crowed that "The Metropolitan Museum has opened its sacred halls to Photography" when the museum accepted his gift of 22 photographs in 1928.
Swimming Pool, Stieglitz and Color
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Hopefully, things will not go quite as easily for Balkenende as they appear to be going for Brown; leading opposition party SP are determined not to be "hassled" into agreement and are insisting that the text should be throughly reviewed and evaluated.
A Letter from Limburg
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The statement confirmed something that many Mideast watchers have suspected for a long time: that the settlement impasse originated not with Netanyahu or Abbas, but with Obama -- who by insisting on an Israeli freeze has created a near-insuperable obstacle to the peace process he is trying to promote.
How Obama sabotaged Middle East peace talks
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How far might originality reside in articulating that midpoint when everyone else is insisting that only this or that is possible?
Archive 2009-02-01
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But workers at the Richmond plant are insisting on a wage premium that would offset the San Francisco Bay Area's high cost of living.
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I suppose you think I'm rude and impertinent, barging in here and insisting I knew you.
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When he was eventually caught in 2000 after delivering a particularly eye-opening interview with Christina Ricci and a rival blew the whistle, he refused to say sorry, insisting that he specialised in what he called "borderline journalism".
The Guardian World News
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Insisting that such "solatia" or "ex-gratia payments" are made from a unit's own funds on a purely discretionary basis, ISAF says the spirit of the measure has been misinterpreted.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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He vigorously denies pressurising pupils, insisting the ethos is about making the work interesting, so they become self-motivated to learn.
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Process theism does not deny that God is in some respects eternal, immutable, and impassible, but it contradicts the classical view by insisting that God is in some respects temporal, mutable, and passible.
Process Theism
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He was dazed but still insisting that he was innocent.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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Regimental top brass are insisting that if it happens, the Duke's must retain the insignia and badges as well as their name.
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He died in 1987, insisting to the last he was innocent.
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Federal regulators sought Wednesday to prevent the growing furor over improper foreclosures from escalating, pressing mortgage lenders to replace flawed and fraudulent court documents while insisting that foreclosures continue apace.
U.S. to lenders: No moratorium, but fix the mess
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As African-descended (including Indo- and Euro-Caribbean) peoples bring their cultures to urban spaces which are heavily policed, bordered, and confined, some interesting frictions emerge when the people break down fences (which occurred at Caribana) to join floats and dance behind enormous trucks with their booming sound systems, insisting on the politics of "bacchanal" (anything goes) and "chaos theory" while resisting the orderly ways of the state.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Germany demands that the debtor nations of southern Europe atone for their sins, insisting on painful austerity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mostly, though, I object to the fact that the authors show you how to behave as if you were reticent, modest, and chaste - without insisting you actually adopt those virtues.
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By insisting, however, on such a stiff income tax rate, the allied powers had created ample opportunities for the scheme just described.
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It transpired that the new owners have appealed against the island being designated a right-to-roam area, insisting that it could suffer serious erosion if walked upon.
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College managers are insisting that students and staff wear photographic identity cards on colour coded ribbons visible at all times to security guards.
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Although, as some may remember, my partner's late mother used to walk off with everything including the cream pitcher and the butter dish, insisting "they want you to - they charge for it!" incunabulum (love the name, btw!) -- I'm guessing you have never waited tables.
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An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer.
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February 24th, 2010 more images more imagesMATTHEW GOODE has slammed his new movie LEAP YEAR as "turgid" - insisting the AMY ADAMS movie will be labelled "the worst film of 2010.
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But this anarchist lassie kept insisting on calling it Bovril, and the name sort of … stuck.
Behemoth
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The latter is a much more open question, not foreclosing the possibility of radical surprise but insisting that there should be evidential backing for what is being asserted.
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Undeterred, Supaporn, accompanied by one of her employees, followed the man down the street and onto the beach, still insisting he pay up on the 10 bar chits.
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In short order, Clemens broadcast a secretly recorded phone conversation with McNamee that made him sound like a mob enforcer, dared Congress to make a federal case out of it, and doubled down by insisting everybody else either "misheard" or "misremembered" what he said and did.
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The SEC said it became concerned in the early 1970s that firms were agreeing to settlements and then publicly insisting they had done nothing wrong, blunting any deterrent effect.
The Origins of a Policy as Practical as It Is Puzzling
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Instead, he is insisting on the release of prisoners serving longer sentences for serious security offences to make the gesture more meaningful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, if a Gentianella was called a bluestocking commonly, then insisting that the woman in question be named a Gentianella would be insisting that there is little (nothing?) common about her (and by extension, about being a female scientist?)
Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day
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Then we had to haggle over which ones would be best, with him holding out for bluepoints and me insisting on something more exotic from the 18 or so listed on the menu.
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Since his talents broke out of the conservatoire in the mid-noughties, British pianist Gwilym Simcock started insisting that composition was by no means a second string to the keyboard virtuosity that attracted plaudits from jazz stars as big as Chick Corea and Lee Konitz.
This week's new live music
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The outraged churchwarden was insisting that it reminded him of a lavatory.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The end of it is always, or nearly, the same, and to the effect that of course we "jaded critics" do not really care about any pieces at all, and only visit the theatre because we are paid to go, and that it is awfully unfair that such "jaded" -- one cannot help insisting upon the word "jaded" -- people should be allowed to act as critics.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
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Brussels immediately responded by insisting that noncomplying airlines will face large fines, and even bans on operating in Europe.
Europe's Carbon Trade War
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Thanks to Wurf for posting the invite to tonight's big gop shin-dig with Bush, Hastert and, yes all you anonymous commenters insisting he has no part of it, Mark "Marky" Kirk himself.
Archive 2006-10-01
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German Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum,” the Vatican dicastery or administrative agency on charity, aid and relief, blamed “gender mainstreaming” and “radical feminism” for attacking biological manhood and insisting that “sexual roles are learned.”
Archive 2009-02-01
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But by now it's clear to everyone that there was no great PR strategy behind taking the artist / label contretemps public, and that the album's fortunes have been affected in the collateral damage. about what she calls the "supposed feud," insisting that she and her team remain a "tightly knit family" and saying, "A lot has been made in the press about my relationship with Clive.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The latter shocked bluenoses with satanic sadism, but also reassured the devout by insisting that God and the devil were real.
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Once inside, her manner changed completely, from grand inquisitor to gracious host, insisting on brewing a fresh pot of tea.
AFTERMATH
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After one recent ad campaign the chairman of Mexfam stepped down, insisting that Mexfam adopt a lower profile.
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Germany demands that the debtor nations of southern Europe atone for their sins, insisting on painful austerity.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, all sides are insisting this is a temporary hiccup that can be overcome.
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She is insisting on her last name: no hyphenation.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Tehran repudiates Sarkozy��s claims
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And here, too, is a prefiguration of Barack Obama, who made his career by insisting that there are no red states and blue states, only the United States.
‘On Whitman’: The Real American
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In response, he denied being "misanthropic" - that is, anti-human-insisting that his proposals were a "vote for humanity.
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He spent the next hour trying to invalidate the insurance cover by insisting the house wasn't fit or habitable to be a residence principale.
WHITE LIES
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The Resale Prices Act prevents a manufacturer insisting on a price at which a retailer or wholesaler must sell its products to their customers.
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He spent the next hour trying to invalidate the insurance cover by insisting the house wasn't fit or habitable to be a residence principale.
WHITE LIES
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Ministers are likely therefore to play down any proposal for an American-style grid system, insisting that it would be looked at for research purposes only.
Times, Sunday Times
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She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom.
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Last night he denied he had stormed out, insisting that he had to attend a meeting instead.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government has strongly rejected the demands, insisting that Congress is the only legitimate forum for negotiating national issues.
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They were being unnecessarily pedantic by insisting that Berry himself, and not his wife, should have made the announcement.
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Negotiations for the player's ￡60,000 transfer to Parkhead are ongoing with Bangor insisting that Byrne plays out the season here.
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Bernard Nathanson writes that, before his conversion from proabortion advocate to champion of human life, he and his colleagues worked hard to convince people that it is impossible to determine when human life begins by insisting that it is a moral, theological, or philosophical question, not a scientific one.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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Bob Dylan as a "fake" and a "plagiarist" - insisting the folk legend's entire act is a
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Maybe I'm missing the point and insisting on a literalism that isn't there.
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Insisting her edict is to get kids graduated, Martin Van Buren HS Principal Marilyn Shevell has declared war on ...
NY School Nixes Sports To Raise Grades
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Ms. Chang is being hypocritical when she says that President Obama should not consider himself black simply because that's how society views him - she is insisting he identify as biracial because that's how she WANTS society to view him, or at least because that's how she views him.
Obama's 2010 Census racial identification
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After months of hearing about Britney Spears on "Glee" -- star Matthew Morrison dismissing amusedly the notion that the show was going to do a Britney Spears episode, Morrison taking back what he said about Britney Spears and "Glee," Morrison insisting Britney Spears and "Glee" go together like peanut butter and jelly -- the episode finally aired Tuesday night.
Britney Spears on "Glee" -- all that and less
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He denied reports that he had agreed a lucrative counter-offer to play in Saudi Arabia, insisting he was looking forward to playing for Wanderers in the Premiership.
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She sorts the bread into different types and points out one piece that's full of candied fruit and spices, insisting I taste some.
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Another refused to walk a quarter mile to school, insisting that daily transportation be provided.
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Rocard wanted a narrow definition of what sort of inventions could be patented, insisting that only a programmable piece of hardware could be covered, such as ABS brakes on a car or an insulin pump.
Archive 2005-06-01
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But there's something troubling about the online campaign that pillories him for insisting he is innocent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much pressure from the Right, insisting that Obama, unlike GWB with his massive wins, has no mandate for any kind of leftwards move on policy.
David Horton: A Liberal Bias
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Science on the other hand normally sticks to the answerable questions, and can afford the luxury of insisting on truth and proof in its reporting.
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Especially with the brain mapping project; you wrote about gathering scientists to decide on a philanthropic endeavor to invest in, and more or less insisting that they come up with something with a near-term achievable goal.
Boing Boing
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In Mind over Machine (1986), Dreyfus and Dreyfus oppose this trend and perform a valuable service by insisting on the centrality to intelligent behavior of what they call intuition—“the understanding that effortlessly occurs upon seeing similarities with previous experiences” (28).
The Muse in the Machine
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They keep insisting every now and then that saner sense prevails, after all.
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Their first step was a high-handed approach to the agents, insisting they could simply "promulgate" SAG's authority over all actor's contracts and take legal action if the ATA, the agents 'organization, didn't toe the line.
Mike Farrell: The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight Strikes Again
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The government should, if necessary, be willing to run a deficit, he said, insisting the collapse of the cattle industry would devastate the entire provincial economy.
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Actually, make that a interrobang Harrelson said well, he didn't actually say "interrobang," but it's way too cool a word to pass up, insisting that "The A-Team" was going to be one "helluva" good movie when those question marks get erased.
‘A-Team’ Movie Still A Question Mark For Woody Harrelson » MTV Movies Blog
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League action, with Arsene Wenger insisting Arsenal are right back in the title classic English club triumphs over Italian opposition ...
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'inutile' and 'prostituted' with Merceditas Gutierrez at its helm, insisting she should be impeached.
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But friends and colleagues leapt to his defence, insisting they had issued a public thank you for his rescue.
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In response, tea merchants often wrote to their agents, captains, and supercargoes in Canton, insisting both that the tea remain in its original Chinese crates, chests, or boxes and that these be attractive.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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Epstein is quite right in insisting that this issue must be dealt with as a question of principle.
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Last night he denied he had stormed out, insisting that he had to attend a meeting instead.
Times, Sunday Times
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A more accurate portrayal than Carley's would be that of an arrogant and disputatious Soviet side insisting on extreme demands and refusing to reach an agreement based on conditions that Western leaders could responsibly have met.
