7 sentences with 'insist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word insist and other words derived from it.
• « -You have to eat, Tony," he would insist, and he would bring me the bread for breakfast, the rice and radishes for lunch, or the greasy soup for dinner. »
• « Philip II was the first Macedonian king to insist on the instruction and training of his infantry, and the combination of his improved phalanx and cavalry proved unstoppable. »
• « Most male intellectuals continued to insist on the desirability of female submission and, with a few major exceptions, most of the literature and philosophy of the period was written by men. »
• « The early Christians came to insist, following Paul, that Jesus had been the Messiah, but that the "liberation" he offered was spiritual in nature, rather than having to do with prosaic politics. In other words, the potential to save the soul from damnation exceeded the Old Covenant. »
• « The Bulgarians were consistently able to defeat the Byzantine armies and occupied territory taken from the Byzantine Empire, yet Boris I chose to convert (and insist that his followers do so as well) to Christianity. »
• « James I, inspired by events on the continent, sought to insist on the "royal prerogative", the right of the king to rule by force of will. »
• « The key question was whether the king would allow voting according to the number of representatives, which would give the Third Estate a clear majority, or whether he would insist on the old model in which the clergy and nobility dominated. »