Word Finder - insist

definition

(with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.

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I insist that my secretary dresses nicely.

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(sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.

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I insist that my secretary dress nicely.

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To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

I insist that you hire someone to help.

Alpatych did not insist further.

Mom will insist that you stay.

If you insist on going, this is the route you must take.

You want me to think of all this as ours, but how can I when you insist that the problems are all yours?

Why did he insist on showing up when she was alone?

I shall not attempt to conquer her by force alone; but I shall insist on reasonable obedience from the start.

In domestic politics Fox had no time to do more than insist on the abolition of the slave trade.

If you absolutely insist on doing this, at least leave me instructions on how to get there... and a phone number where you can be reached.

Are you going to insist that Howie admit to her what we're doing at Econ Scrutiny all day; not just counting sheep births and soy bean crops?

If he thinks I might be up today, he'll insist on staying home so he won't miss me.

So why did you insist I protect her?

I was concerned that you would insist on checking out too early, so I stopped by the office to see what arrangements could be made for paying your bill.

When the disasters of the American war had at last made a change of ministry necessary, and the king applied to the Whigs, through the intermediary of Lord Shelburne, Fox made a very serious mistake in persuading the marquess of Rockingham not to insist on dealing directly with the sovereign.

Would he insist she have an abortion?

If Alex was interested in Lori, Josh had no right to insist he make an honest woman of Carmen.

Animals didn't protect a necklace belonging to their mother or insist their adopted-mother stay where it was safe.

Otherwise Alex would insist it was an infection or something.

She will insist on having her hair put in curl papers when she is so sleepy she can scarcely stand.

Whether it was love or blood that made his father insist that Alex inherit the estate, Alex was as trapped as a prince.

Casuistry might insist that it only proposed to fix the minimum of a minimum, and beg them for their soul's sake to aim a little higher.

Yet Canada has seen statesmen of more contracted view insist on such small points, fall, and drag down their party with them.

Maybe he was afraid she would insist he make an honest woman of her.

I would insist the father be nothing but a sperm donor.

On the whole the remarks of this esteemed author do not go much beyond such as might occur to any one who had made a study of a good series of specimens; but many of them are published for the first time, and the author is careful to insist on the necessity of not resting solely on sternal characters, but associating with them those drawn from other parts of the body.

In manufacturing districts and near large towns loads of 30 tons may come on road bridges, and county and borough authorities insist on provision being made for such loads.

Kings began to insist upon trying ecclesiastics for treason or other political crimes in secular courts.

What both Ritschl and Schleiermacher insist on is that the belief in miracles is inseparable from the belief in God, and in God as immanent in nature, not only directing and controlling its existent forces, but also as initiating new stages consistent with the old in its progressive development.

He did so, however, on favourable terms and was able to insist on the Belgians yielding up their possession of portions of Limburg and Luxemburg, which they had occupied since 1830.

Campbell, representing President Davis, on the other, he instructed his representatives to insist on the recognition of the Confederacy as a condition to any arrangement for the termination of the war.

Athens might fairly insist that the protection of the Aegean would become impossible if some of the chief islands were liable to be used as piratical strongholds, and further that it was only right that all should contribute in some way to the security which all enjoyed.

Both have the feeling that it is inconsistent with the common sense of mankind, which will insist that the very object perceived is the sole reality.

For the consistency of his theory, however, it was indispensable that he should insist upon the real, i.e.

Possibly he means to insist on the advantages of country life over life in the city; if this be so, the paragraph bears witness to the prominence of the latter.

Some people insist that their mere existence is intrinsically immoral.

It is sometimes objected that the Christian church did not denounce slavery as a social crime and insist on its abolition.

At this time there were many grievances in the country which demanded redress; but each faction was more inclined to insist upon the exercise of its special rights than to fulfil its common responsibilities.

Servia, Egypt and the principalities were successively the scene of hostilities in which Turkey gained no successes, and in 1807 a British fleet appeared at Constantinople, strange to say to insist on Turkey's yielding to Russia's demands besides dismissing the ambassador of Napoleon I.

The States-General (9th of July 1618) took up the challenge, and the prince of Orange, as captain-general, was placed at the head of a commission to go in the first place to Utrecht, which supported Oldenbarneveldt, and then to the various cities of Holland to insist on the disbanding of the waardgelders.

Nor does the a priori argument in any of its forms fare better, for reason can never demonstrate a matter of fact, and, unless we know that the world had a beginning in time, we cannot insist that it must have had a cause.

He directed the peace negotiations with Spain after the war of 1898, and not only secured American interests in the imbroglio caused by the Boxers in China, but grasped the opportunity to insist on "the administrative entity" of China; influenced the powers to declare publicly for the "open door".

One of his first acts, after preventing the application of capital punishment to the ringleaders of the revolt, was to veto the project of protecting the khedive and his government by means of a Praetorian guard recruited from Asia Minor, Epirus, Austria and Switzerland, and to insist on the principle that Egypt must be governed in a truly liberal spirit.

Even these latter, who gained most by the reforms, considered that they had good reason to complain, for the defeat of Arabi and the re-establishment of order had enabled the Christian money-lenders to return and insist on the payment of claims, which were supposed to have been extinguished by the rebellion.

On the 4th of January 1884 SirE; Baring was directed to insist upon the policy of evacuation, and on the 18th General Gordon left London to assist in its execution.

It will be seen that the Press Bureau had no power to insist upon the submission of matter for censorship. The responsibility rested with the editor, who could publish what he thought fit, subject to complying with the Defence of the Realm Regulations.

North Britain; and Scottish people have long objected to the conventional use south of the Tweed of the word " English," when it really means (as they correctly, but sometimes rather pedantically, insist) " British."

Darwin was careful to insist that we did not know the laws of variation, and that when variation was attributed to "chance" no more should be read into the statement than an expression of our ignorance of the causation.

On the other hand, dislike of mystical interpretations of natural facts has driven many capable naturalists to another extreme and has led them to insist on the "all-powerfulness of natural selection" and on the complete indefiniteness of variation.

So again he was always eager to insist on the essential points of union between various denominations of Christians.

Fans of Goth will insist it's not goth.