Word Finder - insists

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(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).

He insists on that.

He insists you two be with us before we move forward.

Holden insists strongly upon infallibility.

Ezekiel's own moral code is that of the prophets, which insists on the practice of the fundamental civic virtues.

The Code fixes the price for building and insists on the builder's giving a year's guarantee of seaworthiness.

He is a good enough Lutheran to quote as a " mystery " the Eucharist no less than the Trinity, while he insists that truths above are not against reason.

But side by side with this literary transmission Berthelot insists that there was another mode of transmission, by means of the knowledge of practical receipts and processes traditional among jewellers, painters, workers in glass and pottery, and other handicraftsmen.

Careful experiment and observation, not the inner consciousness, are, he insists, the only foundations of true science.

Hence the strength with which a champion of the faith like Anselm insists on the subordination of reason.

He is more original when he insists on the value of translation and retranslation for acquiring a mastery over Latin prose composition, and when he protests against compelling boys to converse in Latin too soon.

Ascham's influence is apparent in the Positions of Mulcaster, who in 1581 insists on instruction in English before admission to a grammar-school, while he is distinctly in advance of his age in urging the foundation of a special college for the training of teachers.

Cyprian insists on the admixture of water, which he says represented the humanity of Jesus, as wine his godhood.

The " Young Turkish " government has problems to face which will be equally difficult, if it insists on endeavouring to institute centralized government in Turkey on the French model.

Fraser (Short Cut to India, p. 1 34) insists that in the undulating plains the direct rainfall is quite sufficient for agricultural purposes.

Kant insists upon treating these as Begriffe, notions, and assigns to them certain characteristics of notions.

It has been the habit of biologists to use the terms variation, selection, elimination, correlation and so forth, vaguely; the new school, which has been strongly reinforced from the side of physical science, insists on quantitative measurements of the terms. When the anatomist says that one race is characterized by long heads, another by round heads, the biometricist demands numbers and percentages.

The fourth book, De Vera Sapientia et Religione, insists upon the inseparable union of true wisdom and true religion, and maintains that this union is made real in the person of Christ.

Whatever the shortcomings of individual writers may be, modern idealism differs, as we have seen, from the arrested idealism of Berkeley precisely in the point on which dualism insists.

Like Aristotle, he insists that virtue, being relative, cannot be ascribed to God.

He defends a restrictive policy and insists on the necessity of the action of the state as a regulating power in the industrial world.

His lengthy explanations are the more grievous because he insists on the same points in several of his books.

The opposing school (the Sumerists) insists that these Hastings's Diet.

In comparing man with the lower animals, Charron insists that there are no breaks in nature.

He insists on the diversities in religions; he dwells also on what would indicate a common origin.

He insists throughout on the unity and the indivisibility of God, whereas Plotinus and Porphyry had admitted not only a Trinity, but even an Ennead (nine-fold personality).

In the former he calls attention to the growing strength of Austria and France, and insists on the necessity of some third power, by which he clearly means Prussia, counterbalancing their excessive influence.

It insists that all thought is personal and purposive and that "pure"' thought is a figment.

Klebs insists that the only solution of such problems is the subjection of the algae in question to a rigorous method of pure culture.

But public opinion still insists, in considerable circles even in Europe, on restrictions of a more or less defined kind, both as to marriage and as to eating together.

He insists on its objectivity.

It is in this connexion that he insists on the necessity of the Nay to the Yea, of the negative to the positive.

St Paul also believes in this, but insists that it is subordinate to the peaceable fruits of righteousness.

Paul insists that he was appointed the apostle to the Gentiles, as Peter was to the Circumcision; and that circumcision and the observance of the Jewish law were of no importance to the Christian as such.

The Pythagoreans and Orphic mystae so abstained all their life long, and Porphyry eloquently insists on such a discipline for all who "are not content merely to talk about Reason, but are really intent on casting aside the body and living through Reason with Truth.

The anthropological expert, on the other hand, insists on making the primitive point of view itself the be-all and end-all of his investigations.

The Teaching of the Apostles, c. loo, merely insists on "living," that is, clear and running water.

The Compendium errorum selects four papal constitutions which involved a declaration against evangelical poverty, and insists that they are full of heresy.

But, whereas the new scholarch, confining himself to the detailed examination of natural kinds, attempted no comprehensive explanation of the universe, Aristotle held that a theory of its origin, its motions, and its order was a necessary adjunct to the classificatory sciences; and in nearly all his references to Speusippus he insists upon this fundamental difference of procedure.

The school of Saint-Simon insists strongly on the claims of merit; they advocate a social hierarchy in which each man shall be placed according to his capacity and rewarded according to his works.

He insists that this is the true method of philosophy as applied to consciousness, in which alone the facts of experience appear.

But while he insists on repentance and mortification, he says nothing about public confession or discipline.

Theistic Contents philosophy thinks of God as the absolute being; and of every monotheistic religion insists, not indeed that theology.

But for a general interpretation of Lord Beaconsfield and his career none serves so well as that which Froude insists on most.

And many scientific thinkers, while professing allegiance to a theory which insists upon the independence of each parallel series, in reality tacitly assume the superior importance if not the controlling force of the physical over the psychical terms. But a mere insistence upon the complete independence of the physical series coupled with the belief that its changes are wholly explicable as modes of motion, that the study of molecular physics is competent to explain all the phenomena of life and organic movements, is sufficient to eliminate the possibility of spontaneity and free origination from the universe.

These distinctions, he insists, have an objective reality, The cognizable by reason no less than the relations of Cambridge space or number; and he endeavours to refute moralists, Hobbism - which he treats as a " novantique philo- C d sophy," a mere revival of the relativism of Protagoras - chiefly by the following argumentum ad hominem.

So Hume insists emphatically on the " reality of moral obligation "; but is found to mean no more by this than the real existence of the likes and dislikes that human beings feel for each other's qualities.

Dr Wilde insists on there being "nothing incongruous with the laws of nature in the theory that the sun, moon and stars influence men's physical bodies and conditions, seeing that man is made up of a physical part of the earth."

Tatian does not deny the stories of the Greek mythology - indeed he protests against any attempt to allegorize it - but he insists that these stories are the record of the deeds of demons and have no religious value.

He overflows with anecdotes, seldom indeed gets beyond the anecdotal stage, yet from this all study of nature must begin; and he sees everywhere intelligence and beauty, love and sociality, where a later view of nature insists primarily on mere adaptation of interests or purely competitive struggles.

He insists on the value of the upper lip or labrum for generic distinction, and as an aid in affiliating larval forms of different stages to their several species.