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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121. They insist that virtually all of their students reach a high educational standard.
122. They insist that the forfeit of self-esteem must be paid.
123. Officials insist the case is unrelated to the explosion in homicide rates among teenagers.
124. I insist on eating properly and will not skimp, even if it means altering the social calendar to suit.
125. Ministers will insist that, despite the image management, the party remains dominated by the left.
126. Giants team execs insist the new ballpark train has picked up too much steam to be stopped by one or two players.
127. He could hardly insist on Westbourne's cooperation with the Grand Duke present.
128. He did not try to dissuade the party from their ascent,[http://sentencedict.com/insist.html] but he did insist on loaning Miss Fergusson a pistol.
129. They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination.
130. Doctors should insist on suitable procedures for medical audit as a precondition for collaboration.
131. Some councils therefore still insist on every committee decision being referred to the full council for confirmation or rejection.
132. But the men at City Hall, sniffing at anything too ideological, insist that big cuts are just not practical.
133. Of course we must insist on punishment, but the criminal must also be treated with compassion.
134. If you insist on wearing a made-up tie, wear a shirt with a turned-down collar, not a wing collar.
135. If you are not a regular eater of such food, insist firmly that the chilli content is severely reduced.
136. It is too bad that many of the groups we know insist upon one or the other method with a cultish fascination.
137. Company officials insist that emissions from the combustion of the tyres will not remain within legal limits.
138. Then he offered his alternative: masters should insist on such huge indentures that Negroes would be in virtual slavery after baptism.
139. Several groups claim to exert their influence, but insist that it is no more than that.
140. Traditionalists insist that there are only three appropriate accompaniments to Wensleydale: - apple pie, gingerbread, or fruit cake.
141. We will insist on more effective control over Community spending and will resist pressure to extend Community competence to new areas.
142. We insist on payment by irrevocable sight credit.
143. We must insist on our usual terms of payment.
144. We should insist on sincere rhetoric and sincere rhetorician.
145. Some insist that this syrupy sugar alcohol, a byproduct of ethanol fermentation, is as important to a wine's mouthfeel (texture) as ethanol itself.
146. We attach importance to innovate and exploder new products and insist on the management tenet of "mutual benefit, time, quality".
147. We insist on the safety of imported high-quality stain and one-time health needle!
148. Some close-minded people insist that only "a vagina makes a girl, " but using that same logic, someone with two vaginas makes two girls.
149. The crisis has been caused because the Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, insist that the debt ceiling should not be raised without dealing with the national debt.
150. We insist on the principle of equality and mutual benefits asas exchange of needed goods.
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.