Kitty did not insist.

She insisted on her innocence.

Mary insisted that she was right.

She insisted that he play the piano.

She insisted on going there.

Mary insisted that she had done nothing wrong.

It was raining hard, but she insisted on going for a drive.

She insisted on my going there.

She insisted that I should pay the bill.

Again Esme protested her right to privacy and silence.

I insisted that I didn't agree with everything Mrs Thatcher said.

The minister insisted the Tasmanian Government would face a strict reporting and accountability regime.

He was shot in the back by an extremist who escaped and was never found.

She insisted that the training given by her agency merely coincided with the visit of the pope.

After insisting, Lezcano managed to speak with the engineer, owner, president and community manager in his office. She complained to him about the manner in which they wrote to her on the university profile. The president told her that the university is his and because it is his he could do what he wanted.

When some in the world called for sanctions and punitive action, South Korea pushed for dialogue.

The hotel, however, was pressured by a group of Muslim scholars to cancel the event.

As my colleague Jeffrey Frankel has remarked, for more than 20 years, Germany s elites have insisted that the eurozone will not be a transfer union.

I promised that I wouldn t reveal her identity, but she insisted it didn't matter, as she had nothing to lose.

Even after growing up and realizing that Santa did not exist, my mother insisted that exchanging the gifts under the tree remain an annual ritual.

A self described conviction politician, Thatcher always insisted that she did not care about her poll ratings, pointing instead to her unbeaten election record.

While Biles insisted she's never looked ahead during her long run at the top, that's not exactly true.

Three weeks ago in the UN Security Council, Russia again insisted that any agreement required the approval of both Serbia and Kosovo, and that further negotiations were necessary.

It was arguably responsible for the split between Microsoft and IBM, since IBM insisted that OS 2, originally a joint venture between IBM and Microsoft, would run on a 286 (and in text mode).

State owned newspaper Al Ahram insisted the assailant was unknown and that no one claimed responsibility for the bombing.

The Italian boss of bosses Emma Marcegaglia, who will meet him on Tuesday, has also insisted on the necessity of relaunching the economy, because a country which does not have growth, cannot observe the parameters of deficit.

Few could remain unmoved by the brave fight of the young Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai after the Taliban shot her in the head because she insisted on the right of young girls to an education.

Invariably, when she traveled on business to Beijing, she would insist on first shopping for a present for the former Chinese leader, Zhao Ziyang, with whom she had negotiated Hong Kong s handover.

While she didn't have any medical evidence to back up her claim that there was a relationship between operatic arias and pulmonary hypertension, she was absolutely emphatic I was singing my own obituary.

Indeed, the AKP insisted on submitting the entire package to a single yes no vote, despite repeated calls from civil society groups and opposition parties to allow for votes on each amendment separately.

This is why the US should encourage the development of a common European security and defense policy, which is merely the burden sharing that America has been pressing on Europe for decades.

Aid should not be a mere side show to the seemingly endless peace talks taking place in Geneva as United Nations emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos insisted, it must be central to those negotiations.

After the recent landmine blasts, by contrast, President Park Geun hye would not back down from her demands that the North, which denied planting the mines, apologize. Her approval ratings soared to 50 , from around 34 the previous month.

I insisted, however, that my job was that of storyteller, and that as readers they, too, had a responsibility to do something about the issue if they really cared about it.

America, it seemed, was unwilling to release aid to Haiti because of irregularities in the 2000 legislative elections, and was insisting that Aristide make peace with the political opposition before releasing any aid.

We do not attempt to explain whether the American people were deliberately misled regarding the war s costs, or whether the Bush administration s gross underestimate should be attributed to incompetence, as it vehemently argues is true in the case of weapons of mass destruction.

In principle, IDB membership requires OAS membership, and therein may lie the reason why Cuba insisted so strongly on returning, and why it was ultimately disappointed in not obtaining unconditional re admission.

There were other times when we have stood by while a militaristic European power insisted that it had the right to intervene wherever it wanted to advance the interests of those who claimed shared ethnicity from the Baltics to the Caucasus.

They responded that such previous action by them had not been reciprocated, and they reminded me that Hamas had previously insisted on a ceasefire throughout Palestine including both Gaza and the West Bank, which Israel had refused.

He did not wish to see, and did not see, that many people in Society already looked askance at Anna he did not wish to understand, and did not understand, why his wife particularly insisted on moving to Tsarskoe Selo, where Betsy lived and near which place Vronsky's regiment was stationed.