6 sentences with 'insisting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word insisting and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »