Stubborn cusses that they are, those dogmatic mathematicians insisted on using the old, messy value of pi. |
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When he approached her, he insisted on producing a full-fledged album, not just a songwriter's demo. |
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If the government insisted on a unitary state that would Islamize and Arabize the entire country, the south would demand independence. |
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They learned how to roll cheese from a team of brawny factory workers who made fun of the tiny women even as they insisted on perfection. |
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From the inception of the project the archdiocese insisted on a robust design to preserve the function and integrity of the structure. |
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Afterwards, I wouldn't let her dry me off, but she insisted on rubbing oils into my skin. |
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He had insisted on best quality sharp sand, but even then it was a lot of money to pay. |
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As for Chris, she was delighted with her new bag and lunch box, which she insisted on carrying even though they were heavier than her. |
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After he left we discovered that he had insisted on paying for the meal for the whole table. |
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She decided to weave her way through the fray, trying to avoid battles, but one knight insisted on aiding her. |
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She insisted on leaving the front and back doors open at all times, and these were at either end of a passageway through the house. |
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Unfortunately, U.S. sales of your magnum opus are inadequate to inspire the publisher to exercise those paperback rights he insisted on buying. |
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However, most Congressmen who spoke Marathi insisted on a separate Maharashtra State. |
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Seeing my press badge, she approached and insisted on speaking to me, declaring she was from France and could give me the French perspective. |
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I was always Alfred and my intimates knew me so, until a Scottish aunt much later insisted on adding the Scottish form of Alistair. |
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On the coach back we came down gently while listening to the cricket that the driver insisted on playing on the radio. |
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Mrs Walsh was exposed to more smoke than fellow residents as she insisted on her fire door being left open at night. |
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When we finally pushed our empty plates away, Clayton insisted on buying my breakfast. |
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During his trial, he fired his attorney and insisted on representing himself. |
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And as a precondition, he insisted on bringing her with him to the CIA as his confidential assistant. |
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But this was too late for some as taxi operators insisted on leaving at 4pm as scheduled, taking taxi-loads of concert-goers with them. |
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Marie had insisted on tidying up Dylan's room, she said that it was worse than a pigsty. |
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Consecutive governments have insisted on a completely inept policy of open immigration. |
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As ever, she was delightfully indiscreet and, unheard of amongst politicians, insisted on picking up the bill. |
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By the later eighteenth century, Johann Caspar Lavater insisted on profile silhouettes as the most stable means of representing physiognomies. |
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She loved going to the doctor's office and insisted on having a complete physical at every visit. |
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However, she insisted on participating in the commemoration ceremony on Sunday. |
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And when working on silkscreens, Close insisted on creating the stenciled image by hand rather than by the photomechanical process commonly used. |
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He insisted on saying that he was for the Communist party, while I was far-left. |
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The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was. |
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Another night, another motel room, and now the guys have insisted on coed rooms. |
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They insisted on the people being consulted in a Swiss style referendum where the details are on the table before, and not after they vote. |
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She was in her 90th year but insisted on doing her own baking and housekeeping. |
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She would have insisted on having an elaborate church service with a choir, minister and a thousand attendees. |
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She printed a map with instructions, but he insisted on giving directions over the phone. |
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On the same road the DSG-equipped car insisted on changing gear each time, even when I'd told it not to by selecting a gear manually. |
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The Teamsters struck Johnson Truck after the company insisted on an open shop and an end to deducting union dues from workers' paychecks. |
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A storeman in civilian life, he was officially responsible for provisioning and the armoury, but insisted on doing his share of combat patrols. |
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A suspicious policeman insisted on checking their cases, which contained escape rations. |
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He once had a faddish private client who insisted on egg-white omelettes, to be cooked without butter or oil in the pan. |
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When the clashes broke out my brother insisted on returning the cariole to its owner. |
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We took the amplifier up to my bedroom and then dad insisted on helping us carry the speaker cabinet up the stairs. |
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Royal first refused to concede and then insisted on a recount, the party looks as splintered as ever. |
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The boys insisted on wearing cut-off jeans instead of competitive swimsuits. |
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They insisted on faster cases and other demands connected with the living conditions in the prison. |
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She had insisted on all of them bringing their own water bottles, certain that the geniuses over in the football team would spike the punch. |
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On the fourth day of Eid, one of my uncles absolutely insisted on a family reunion of sorts at his house. |
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Frank insisted on wearing a sombrero, as well as his Celtic top and shellsuit trousers. |
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The home team, meanwhile, had 14 players and, unsportingly, insisted on playing their full complement. |
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He built himself a sandwich with thick slices from one of the unsliced wholemeal loaves that Wendy insisted on buying from a small local bakery. |
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He insisted on everyone doing the same training and practice, expected people to look smart, and could not tolerate laxity or flippancy. |
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He often boasted about his frequent trips to Paris and always insisted on picking up dinner tabs. |
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He insisted on walking unaided for treatment, recovered and was able to join the royal family at Balmoral that October. |
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As a workman he was most painstaking, and always insisted on the work from his department being turned out in the best possible manner. |
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When he unhelpfully insisted on surviving, the multi-talented Borgias produced brother Cesare to strangle him in his sickbed. |
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They insisted on a single moderator, a stiff debate format and live coverage only by two small stations. |
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He travelled with English marmalade, an egg cup and insisted on English mustard. |
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He clearly didn't have much real life experience of cats and insisted on giving us actorish miaows while the Cat was sneaking up on the Bird. |
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Yet the Commission insisted on the right to extend the time limit to 12 years. |
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The long avoided move was made after strong criticism from German tourist operators, who insisted on price equalization. |
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Workers duly obliged and also insisted on the correct implementation of all the regulations. |
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Sir Charles Bunbury called on her, and insisted on walking out with her, and became rather particular, but our heroine was inflexible. |
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John insisted on kissing them as well, bringing the first wan smiles to their faces after the events of the night. |
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The village stocks and the ducking stool provided a suitable deterrent for the twerp who insisted on invading our space and time. |
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They insisted on calling her Chaelia and sending her to a private academy for schooling. |
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They then insisted on throwing a house warming party, practically smothering us with the locals, who were all very nice. |
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She was educated by British nuns who insisted on public-school elocution, and there you are yet again. |
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The boys were staying for the evening whilst Grandma and Ana went back to the hospital and they insisted on helping out with bathing him. |
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He insisted on training to fly a jumbo jet despite an obvious lack of skill even with small planes. |
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Tottenham's problems seemed to begin when Ossie Ardiles insisted on cramming five attacking players into his starting eleven. |
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The government adopted the position that the reactors should be decommissioned in 2006, but insisted on a safety inspection. |
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We would have been there sooner though if my Mum hadn't insisted on texting me en route to ask where we were. |
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One lady dressed in tight black leather and brandishing a whip, insisted on chasing Geoff and me around the dance floor. |
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A more lively character would be hard to meet and, once again, on her brief visit to Ireland, Stephanie insisted on her ration of set dancing! |
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Neither of my parents had been overly religious although Da had insisted on saying grace before meals and he refused to do any work on a Sunday. |
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Boards and legislatures have insisted on post-tenure review as a way of ensuring faculty responsibility and of getting rid of supposed deadwood. |
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I'd insisted on wearing my football kit, and mum and dad were too tired to argue. |
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And, just to underline their point they even insisted on dressing alike, all the time. |
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We took our seats in a private box, something that Julius had insisted on trying. |
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After Precious left the stage and came out to make her hellos to all of us, she insisted on giving me a lap dance. |
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Dolly insisted on going out for a little while, and yowled at the door until I opened it. |
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Colonial Yucatec ritual practice also insisted on ceremonies of nomination and ordering. |
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During a routine business trip, security personnel insisted on completely unpacking and repacking all of his carry-on bags. |
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Bachelor life also presented various pitfalls such as having to contend with laundries that insisted on ironing his socks. |
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But today, it was even more of a drag, for my mother insisted on all of us questioning Serena to death. |
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A 2-year-old Phil, a natural right-hander, insisted on swinging a golf club left-handed so that he could mirror his dad. |
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I didn't want to eat or drink anything, but Allison insisted on buying me lemon tea and a bran muffin. |
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Michael insisted on taking care of that himself, bandaging a poultice of herbs over the injury every morning. |
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On the night of the shooting, Jaw had been badgering her about her past relationships and insisted on seeing copies of recent e-mails. |
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She hadn't really needed the liner to accentuate her dark lashes and brows, but Mabel, of all people, had insisted on it. |
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Madeline, contrariwise, insisted on joining me in the search for food. |
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The Victims of Communism Foundation has insisted on not accepting U.S. government funding. |
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To further complicate things, I insisted on attaching myself as the screenwriter. |
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He so much embodied the ancient teachings of the Buddha, yet insisted on a completely inclusive, secular, contemporary approach. |
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Glyn, a maintenance supervisor at a distribution warehouse, insisted on parking his own car, which was only two weeks old, instead of allowing staff to do so. |
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One of her daughters insisted on accompanying her to the police station. |
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However, the electric council which administers the industry has insisted on gradual rate increases in an effort to avoid social upheaval against the measure. |
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Despite calls for their culling and suggestions they be given to pensioners for Sunday dinner, many people insisted on feeding them which only aggravated the problem. |
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I go back into the bathroom to wash my face and see that the daughter, who insisted on helping me clean the tub and the floor, threw some of the used baby wipes in the toilet. |
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He insisted on wearing both items all day and so I had to help him fasten the coil of whip to his belt loop because he couldn't figure out how to make it stay. |
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His doctors insisted on immediate surgery and when Miles woke, his forearm was gone. |
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In recent months foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted on keeping the negotiating details confidential. |
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He didn't know why she insisted on baking in the summer, anyway. |
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It seems that the deputies asked him to leave, but Saylor insisted on staying, and perhaps physically resisted them. |
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A demanding bandleader who insisted on a high level of professionalism, he rarely missed an opportunity to screw mates out of touring money or royalties. |
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He always insisted on surrealism's being a materialist philosophy. |
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He insisted on representing himself at his trial, and wore a white sheet wrapped around him like a toga during closing arguments, insisting he was a prophet. |
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To allay anxiety about deleterious perspiration and open pores in the miasmatic tropics, the British insisted on wearing thick flannel next to the skin. |
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Murdoch, though, has insisted on toeing the line, even writing a letter to the committee doubling down on his claims. |
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Even back then, they insisted on making a trilogy of films, a tactic that seems to have been partially inspired by their reading too many comics as kids. |
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She insisted on paying so I bought a great tub of popcorn between us. |
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Tired of waiting for the bloated political elite to pass laws designed to free up labour markets, corporate Europe has simply produced the shotgun and insisted on change. |
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It is the crudest but also the most telling moment of the conflict between them and the one scene where the censors have insisted on an 11-second cut to spare our blushes. |
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And in many cases al-Shabab insisted on distributing the aid, keeping much of it for itself, according to odi. |
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But German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble reportedly insisted on a significantly higher level. |
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He also insisted on personally ushering me to my third period class too. |
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Her hair will forever be the same black she insisted on calling dark brown, and her feet will be veinless and narrow, never lengthening and flattening out with time and wear. |
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She was bubbling with energy, except for the few cracks in confidence that surfaced every time an inquiring scribe insisted on reminding her that she was yet to make it big. |
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Invariably a bureaucrat of the media company concerned fronts up and runs an abstract sort of case, but I insisted on turning up myself to argue my own case. |
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I have never had a student who asked so many questions, who put me on the spot so much, who insisted on understanding every detail of every subject. |
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Caroline arrived at his table with two carrier bags and a green carton, which she insisted on opening to show off a new cactus for her collection. |
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Octavian from beginning to end insisted on peace and public order. |
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You might think I'm being overcautious, but that's because I inexplicably failed to mention that I saw him on my last flight to Chicago and he insisted on sitting next to me. |
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Our family car was a 1959 FC Holden station wagon which dad always insisted on driving well below the speed limit, while my mum fanged around in a Hillman Hunter. |
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He insisted on turning his films into black comedies, full of inside jokes and slippery double entendres, while his contemporaries did what the studio told them to do. |
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Firms all insisted on public liability cover, which had pushed up prices. |
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After about 12 hours of labor, the doctor insisted on a C-section because I was bleeding heavily and the contractions were very strong and irregular. |
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Instead he took a last-minute diversion and insisted on showing explaining to us the architectural merits of a row of Portaloos and a rubbish skip. |
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He claimed he could never consult with his counsel privately without a correctional services official being present and that they insisted on reading privileged documents. |
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This was introduced about seven years ago, after some industries insisted on protection against imports to countervail the sales tax being paid on domestic products. |
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She was originally signed strictly as a vocalist but she was not crazy about singing someone else's songs and insisted on having input in the writing process. |
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They insisted on applying layers of foundation and concealer, but I tried to leave the room, and shrieked hysterically when either of them attempted to touch my face. |
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His father said he had insisted on serving in a front-line army unit. |
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The old boy got up rather gingerly, but insisted on playing on. |
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Now she was sitting as close to the window as possible while Jake and Mindy insisted on making goo-goo eyes at each other before starting off to the lake. |
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He insisted on the development of a force de frappe, a nuclear deterrent, which at the time was considered a quintessential underpinning of superpower status. |
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They insisted on disassembling a camera that cannot be taken apart. |
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The paper reveals that he insisted on clearing up the dishes after dinner. |
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She'd insisted on it when it started raining at dinner, saying she couldn't possibly make it back to her cottage without ending up like a drowned rat. |
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An overawed Spielberg couldn't bring himself to call him Tony, and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot. |
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And just like Claudia Schiffer in the car ad, DiCaprio insisted on body doubles for close-up shots in Titanic. |
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I insisted on getting married from a pathetic mixture of religious and animal promptings. |
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Harriet was fretful and insular. Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything. |
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He checked her eyes for suspicious jerkiness and insisted on a breath test for alcohol. |
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The Chinese government had initially demanded that he be allowed to give a talk and leave, but Harvard insisted on a question period. |
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The outfit there, led by a man named Angelino who insisted on drinking wine while training, is superauthentic and super-romantic. |
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They continued to correspond, and when Hammoneau had a son, Kipling insisted on returning the book and medal. |
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Those who insisted on hiring only PhDs would increase their salary costs to uncompetitively high levels. |
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He made a partial recovery, but in early April he caught a violent cold which therapeutic bleeding, insisted on by his doctors, aggravated. |
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I used to speak of unpolitical politics and always insisted on the moral and educational side of public affairs. |
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In all his biographies he insisted on including what others would have considered trivial details to fully describe the lives of his subjects. |
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If there be any one point insisted on throughout my works more frequently than another, that one point is the impossibility of Equality. |
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He made a partial recovery, but in early April he caught a violent cold, which therapeutic bleeding, insisted on by his doctors, aggravated. |
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The ambassador insisted on witnessing the excavation, however, and resistance on the part of the prebendaries seems to have quieted the matter. |
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They insisted on a call back from them to me before flashing the bulletin. |
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He also insisted on a high moral standard of conduct for laity and clergy alike. |
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No more than a dozen people came to the cinema, but the usher insisted on conducting me to my seat with a torch, as though I were Lady Muck. |
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But Iran insisted on enforcing a rule that diplomatic bags coming into the country must not exceed 15 kilograms to avoid inspection. |
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On 15 August 1524 the council insisted on the obligation to baptise all newborn infants. |
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Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus. |
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Philip, however, insisted on rigorous enforcement, which caused widespread unrest. |
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His heart being weak, of course they couldn't draft him, but anyhow they just absitively insisted on his going to work. |
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Zagan Pasha argued against Halil Pasha, and insisted on an immediate attack. |
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However, Saladin insisted on the razing of Ascalon's fortifications, which Richard's men had rebuilt, and a few other points. |
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De Nicuesa insisted on being received, no longer as governor, but as a simple soldier, but still the colonists did not allow him to disembark. |
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It appeared in their 1921 work Human Heredity, which insisted on the innate superiority of the Nordic race. |
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George insisted on a new law that essentially forbade members of the Royal Family from legally marrying without the consent of the Sovereign. |
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At one of the ormolu tables, near a lamp with a pink shade, Gaston insisted on making at least a partial statement. |
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Merched y Wawr was established in 1967 when the WI insisted on English as the official language of the movement. |
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Lewis insisted on these principles before he would agree to the Pwllheli conference. |
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A number of ministers insisted on recording their dissent over the decision. |
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When his men noticed that Drake was bleeding profusely from a wound, they insisted on withdrawing to save his life and left the treasure. |
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It incited rancor and division between the new revivalists and the old traditionalists who insisted on ritual and liturgy. |
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In the colonial era, Americans insisted on their rights as Englishmen to have their own legislature raise all taxes. |
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They insisted on being able to dictate the terms of surrender. |
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Brando had insisted on creative control, and the two men argued incessantly. |
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In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church insisted on the expression of biblical truths. |
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He insisted on precise and authentic sets and costumes, which provided a foundation to ground and focus his absurd characters and situations. |
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The play attracted capacity audiences until July, when Tree insisted on going on holiday, and the production closed. |
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He insisted on scripture, teaching and education, and on improving the clergy's moral standards. |
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In the Commons, he insisted on the support of all Whig members, especially those who held office. |
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Thatcher insisted on private financing for the British share, and the City assured her that private enterprise was eager to fund it. |
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The British insisted on administering the empire through Parliament, and the conflict escalated into war. |
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Charles then took command again, and insisted on fighting a defensive action. |
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The Jacobite general, Lord George Murray, and the Council of War insisted on returning to join their growing force in Scotland. |
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The family was not rich, but Peg insisted on an expensive private schooling for her son. |
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He has insisted on living as simply and humbly as a pope can. |
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France gained a total standing army of around 6,000 men, which was sent out to gradually eliminate the remaining mercenaries who insisted on operating on their own. |
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There was nothing pretentious or stuffy about him, and I remember that he was so informal that he even insisted on continuing our conversation while he went to the BBC karzy. |
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But what would happen if a huge, eggheaded boffin in a white coat and spectacles, to whom you had not even been introduced, insisted on immersing you in a hot bath. |
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He had declined, but when she insisted on nursing him in a house in the country, Shaw, concerned that this might cause scandal, agreed to their marriage. |
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Henry, to Thomas Cromwell's annoyance, insisted on parliamentary time to discuss questions of faith, which he achieved through the Duke of Norfolk. |
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The English colonies insisted on a binary system, in which mulatto and black slaves were treated equally under the law, and discriminated against equally if free. |
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After medical assessment of Tuleyev, a chemotherapist of the National Cancer Center on January 18, 2014, insisted on chemotherapy course at the Center. |
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After the coup, Abdel Aziz insisted on holding new presidential elections to replace Abdallahi, but was forced to reschedule them due to internal and international opposition. |
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The boss insisted on having first dibs on the best car space. |
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Thorpe was personally in favour of it, but the party insisted on a clear government commitment to introducing proportional representation and a change of Prime Minister. |
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Anne, however, insisted on carrying out the duties of Lord High Admiral herself, without appointing a member of the government to take George's place. |
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Normally, Promzilla that she was, Spencer always insisted on a limo. |
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But his barber insisted on collecting Dh5 extra as baksheesh. |
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The Jacobite force marched south from Glenfinnan, increasing to almost 3,000 men, though two chieftains insisted on pledges of compensation before joining. |
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Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was his full name, but he insisted on being called Egerton Ryerson, under the mistaken conviction that this was much more matey than Adolphus. |
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So, Gupta insisted on dubbing their entire dialogues in the studio. |
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He insisted on wearing headphones and carrying his portable tape player. |
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The Dean of Gloucester banned Gerontius from his cathedral in 1901, and at Worcester the following year, the Dean insisted on expurgations before allowing a performance. |
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She insisted on the site that setting the mood with candles and lighting, scents and music, and even talking can be great turn-ons for many women. |
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When Mary insisted on marrying Philip, insurrections broke out. |
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He also observed the natural world first hand to gain a basis for his designs, and insisted on learning the techniques of production prior to producing a design. |
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Barbirolli's repertoire was not as wide as that of many of his colleagues because he insisted on exhaustive preparation for any work he conducted. |
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The Grievant, however, insisted on using the scantron himself. |
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