6 sentences with “insisting”

The Umayyads quickly abandoned the practice of elders meeting to appoint leaders, insisting on a hereditary line of caliphs.

Charlemagne also reorganised the Church by insisting on a strict hierarchy of archbishops to supervise the bishops who, in turn, supervised the priests.

Suleiman strongly supported the orthodox Sunni ulama (clergy), insisting on strict religious observance, but he also insisted on the sultan's prerogative to rule without interference from the religious authorities.

While the other royal houses sought to live in the style of the glorious French kings, the Hohenzollerns lived as reasonably well-off nobles, pouring state revenues into the army and insisting on brutal discipline.

In areas where women had played very important social roles in the past, such as midwifery, male scientists and physicians increasingly pushed them aside, insisting on a "scientific" superiority of male-dominated technique.

The Pharisees opposed them, insisting that all Jews must keep all the laws of Moses, and also preached that a messiah - a saviour - would soon come to bring about a day of judgement before Yahweh and bring about the fulfilment of the Biblical Covenant.