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Example sentences for "insisted upon"

  • Toward the end of the course, too, a certain amount of speed should be insisted upon.

  • The student will receive the advice of the instructor in the subject in which the research falls, but as much independent work as possible will be insisted upon.

  • Always must analysis be insisted upon, if our college course is going to differ from that of the high school.

  • Content of the course in quantitative analysis= In the quantitative analysis, habits of neatness and accuracy must be insisted upon.

  • Despite the representations made to him, he insisted upon penetrating to the sick-chamber.

  • I insisted upon going to see the Hotel de Ville, which is amazingly ugly, saying to the Jurats that it was not to satisfy my curiosity, but in order to pay a visit to them, that I went.

  • For his own reasons he insisted upon Tammany's turning down an excellent Democratic judge who was a candidate for reelection.

  • Dangers from such contingencies are too great and obvious to be insisted upon.

  • Both these impressions are partially true, and need to be insisted upon, and cleared of their indistinctness, or exaggeration.

  • But so sure was he of the wisdom of King's support that he insisted upon it, even though it sacrificed his leadership.

  • Devotion of the heart is insisted upon as that alone which is acceptable to God.

  • This latter distinction is insisted upon by John in other places.

  • I was no less confounded than enraged at this event, especially as my adversary did not bear his success with all the moderation that might have been expected; for he insisted upon my asking pardon for affronting his king and him.

  • Another point to be insisted upon, was, that no individual of a family should be admitted unless all its members entered the house.

  • Still Fort Stanwix held out, and the savages, growing weary of the siege, and being falsely informed by some Americans that Burgoyne's army had been cut to pieces, insisted upon retiring.

  • I passed whole days in my room, making extracts from the French letters written by the cardinal, and his eminence was kind enough to tell me that my extracts were judiciously made, but that he insisted upon my not working so hard.

  • I told him, and he insisted upon my coming with him in the gondola saying that he would leave me at my house.

  • Martin, an Armenian by birth, insisted upon a liturgical reform that seemed to him most necessary.

  • He insisted upon a curiously strict observance of the Sabbath, and according to Epiphanius he perished miserably in a cave in consequence of an ostentatiously prolonged fast.

  • The princes, therefore, insisted upon a new election, for which Philip also now appeared as candidate.

  • The withdrawal of the bull within sixty days was insisted upon.

  • When these are strained and distorted, unjustifiable claims are apt to be insisted upon by both interests, and in the controversy which results the welfare of all and the prosperity of the country are jeopardized.

  • All the power of this Government should be exerted to maintain the amplest good faith toward China in the treatment of these men, and the inflexible sternness of the law in bringing the wrongdoers to justice should be insisted upon.

  • But the point to be insisted upon is that it is far more worth her while to choose for natural quality than for any other considerations.

  • Here is a simple statistical fact which continues true year by year, and the significance of which must be insisted upon.

  • He was greatly amused at a meeting where one of his Rough Riders, who was in the company, insisted upon making a speech.

  • He, however, insisted upon it, saying that all pledges and preferences would disappear because of Greeley's services to the party for so many years.

  • He insisted upon my standing beside him when he received the families of the members, and took me home in his carriage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advantageous position; dead trees; greater proportion; having fallen; insisted upon; left free; length portrait; ministered unto; ninth century; physical properties; postal order; pure knowledge; regular distances; serve three; solution containing; stone circles; thin paste; turning them; two different; when ratified; word only; worth anything