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What does insistence mean?

insistence

— noun continual and persistent demands — noun the act of insisting on something insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position — noun (= press) the state of demanding notice or attention the insistence of their hunger the press of business matters

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persistence perseverance insistency pressure obstinacy determination stubbornness imperativeness urgency request press pertinacity persistency instance insisting emphasis doggedness contention compulsion claim assertion zealousness wish urging toughness terror tenet tenacity tenaciousness tenacious strong-willed stress single-mindedness push pretension pertinaciousness persevering opinion necessity judgement insistent importunity importunate greed extortion duress demand cruelty corroboration confirmation

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What words refer to insisting that someone do something?

insist be insistent at someone's insistence put your foot down demand be adamant won't take no for an answer won't hear of maintain be resolute

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Despite of our insistence.

If Your Ladyship will accompany Mr. Longley perhaps you'll come to regret your insistence.

I spoke at your insistence.

I married Octavia at her brother's insistence.. as a gesture of faith, of peace. A bargain sealed.

I'm only here at your insistence.

Look, Inspector, with the greatest respect, don't you think your insistence on keeping us here may be endangering all our lives?

Elsmore's marriage is threatened- by Doug's insistence that he is- on a different level of consciousness.

Sorry about my insistence.

Forgive my insistence, but the motor launch is waiting.

I'm here at my husband's insistence.

She will be in the third month. But you, do not betray me, wait for her to tell you I have asked for this with much insistence.

You know, Matron, when I was last in the block, seven days solitary down there, madam, after much insistence, they gave me, besides the belting, my right to a book.

At the insistence of the Senate and the people of Rome I accept. humbly the highest office of our great republic.

One contained an oilskin cape and thick hob-nailed boots - things he had taken at his father's insistence.

I married Octavia at her brother's insistence as a gesture of faith, of peace.

I do hope my insistence on cash did not inconvenience you in any way.

She was trying to persuade me, maybe with too much insistence.

My lady, your insistence is useless.

Perhaps it was his insistence that the nun accompany them.

According to Tulse Luper's other projects of the period, there is a strict and deliberate insistence in keeping the geographical unity.

After much insistence, they gave me, besides the bolting, my right to a book.

Clifford's antagonism, his insistence on selling the house has become a scandal.

You understand, of course. that this house ceremony was only at the insistence of Mrs. Van Ryn.

Your insistence does not impress me, but your money is most persuasive.

My Fuhrer, despite your categorical insistence, I cannot remove a single formation from the front.

Why this insistence on proving you love your wife?

Hirono visited the Akashi family in Kobe with Uchimoto at Uchimoto's insistence.

Despite Dr. Fletcher's insistence that he cannot be. held responsible for actions while in his chameleon state. it is no use.

He wasn't staring at me with insistence?

I'd hoped to avoid this, but your insistence on investigating has left me no choice.

This compact sigsauer is pointed at your head to stress my insistence that your search for who hurt your partner desist now!

In early 1904 at Yannakis' insistence we left Yanena.

Thanks for you insistence.

News and current affairs

Despite (or because of) its insistence that all who are not with America are against it, the Bush administration alienated many who previously counted themselves either as friends of the US or did not take sides.

This is the basis of America's insistence on administrative reforms.

Would peacekeepers withdraw at one side's insistence (as UN peacekeepers have retreated in other circumstances, including just before the 1967 Six Day War), putting the other side in jeopardy?

Wolfensohn's insistence that corruption be confronted as part of the development process was another valuable step forward.

The report is therefore right to challenge Bush's insistence on discarding both Iran and Syria as interlocutors for a more stable regional order.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been unequivocal in its insistence that reducing CO 2 emissions and diminishing dependence on fossil fuels is more urgent than ever.

President John F. Kennedy's insistence, against much advice, on containment during the Cuban missile crisis saved the world from nuclear war.

He was passionate about philosophy but, at the insistence of his father, took classes in economics.

Egypt's major obstacle is Hamas's insistence on an end to the Israeli siege and targeted killings as part of a ceasefire agreement.

French insistence on harsh reparations payments after World War I clearly prepared the ground for the rise of Hitler.

Our creditors' insistence on greater austerity is subtle yet steadfast.

Unless some rational compromise is agreed, insistence on that approach will lead only to massive and even more costly defaults.

Israel's insistence in continuing its assassination policy led, predictably, to a violent reaction--a pattern of assassinations followed by revenge suicide bombings and then further assassinations, with neither side prepared to blink.

Reforming Spains's cajas (savings banks), labor market, welfare provisions, and how its autonomous regions function top the national agenda (though unfortunately only at the insistence of the European Commission and Germany).

Koizumi's insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the buried, has been damaging relations with Japan's neighbors for years.

Likewise, it was France's insistence on more stringent controls that initially blocked the agreement in Geneva last November.

News broadcasts covered his continued insistence that he did not forge his ticket, along with the lottery center's claims that their rejection of the ticket was legitimate.

They see the US as simultaneously the champion of democracy in the region and as the culprit in their economic woes because of its insistence on the sanctity of capital.

The lack of money, combined with America's insistence on flawed ideas about how to respond to the crisis, caused the downturn to be far deeper and longer than it should have been.

But the insistence on orthodoxy is still sufficiently strong in China to remain the default defense against political critics.

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