Synonym: demand, maintain, press, stress, urge. Similar words: consist, consist of, consist in, consistent, consistently, insight, in sight, subsist. Meaning: [ɪn'sɪst] v. 1. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge 2. beg persistently and urgently 3. assert to be true.
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91. Officials insist, for example, that the scope for privatisation is exaggerated.
92. The principles of credit rating are immutable, they insist; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others.
93. Some mortgagees insist on approving the draft conveyance or transfer and regard must therefore be had to the practice of each mortgagee.
94. They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi's blood pressure.
95. One must insist on this clear dividing line between the two stages of writing.
96. We do insist that appointments are on an exclusive basis to avoid duplications and a dispersed marketing effort.
97. You had to be a crank to insist on being right.
98. Surely, if she was the caring person she makes out, she would insist on paying her dues.
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99. Those who hold that tongue speaking is the defining characteristic of pentecostalism insist on the Topeka advent.
100. Will she insist on a guilty verdict and mandatory death sentence?
101. Sentimental dramatists insist that comedy should have a higher purpose than merely to ridicule the weaknesses of mankind.
102. With respect to desire, they insist on the equal value of products of the hunt and products of the garden.
103. If people are to accept responsibility for outcomes, they will insist upon being substantively included in the decision process.
104. Most insist on between one and four bound copies being provided by the candidate being examined.
105. However, if you insist on sawing the post in place, brace it firmly.
106. Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
107. I said she had to change her lifestyle and eating habits or I would insist she came home.
108. You see we still insist on making our handmade bricks in the same painstaking way we've always made them.
109. Recent ideas about language use and learning insist on the primacy of communicative activities in the classroom.
110. But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.
111. Insist on having a say in what goes into job advertisements for employees who will ultimately be your subordinates.
112. He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
113. Leaders insist that only pockets around the country support escalation, but are aware of increasing frustration that the dispute remains unsettled.
114. If you buy the vehicle, insist on getting a receipt with the seller's name and address on it.
115. Lewis was perfectly correct, even politically correct, to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first.
116. They insist on producing more foodstuffs than EuroPeans can eat and preventing other countries from sending foodstuffs to their markets.
117. Insist that goals, expectations, and boundaries be clear and adhered to.
118. Police insist it will not be used as an excuse to trawl for small numberplates and other trivial offences.
119. Insist that they send you a comprehensive list of all your direct debits and standing orders as soon as possible.
120. If the manager collects the money, the artist may insist the manager sets up a completely separate bank account.
More similar words: consist, consist of, consist in, consistent, consistently, insight, in sight, subsist, resist, assist, persist, insinuate, assist in, assistant, resistance, assistance, as is, crisis, emphasis, analysis, diagnosis, paralysis, hypothesis, density, pension, tension, mansion, transit, insect, in step.