Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catholic must insist on taking the sacraments more seriously than some protestants have sometimes done," said Blake, "so protestants in the reunited Church must insist on catholics fully accepting the Reformation principle that God has revealed and can reveal Himself and His will more and more fully through the Holy Scriptures...
Though it does insist on this shadow-boxing with Symbol and Idea, Bergman's film remains a thrilling experience for its technically perfect rendition of the mysterious. As a work of surface brilliance, The Magician represents Bergman at the zenith of his considerable powers...
...type of structure. Note, however, that in such cases it is not sufficient to castigate distrustful "images": rather, it is necessary to replace them with counter-images based upon a detailed analysis of the opponent's internal structure, national aims, and extant capacities. In other words we cannot simply insist that the US give up its conception of China and the USSR as aggressors--and even Dulles did not have such a naive view of our opponents. Instead, a full, complex, and trustworthy analysis of these nations must be produced, such that we can with confidence desist from needless threatening...
Many foreign students argue that the exams are unfair, claim they include subtly worded, semantic-trap questions that would be tricky even for a native-born American. Critics also insist that the A.M.A. purposely makes the exams tough to maintain a monopoly for U.S. doctors -a charge the A.M.A. hotly denies...
Birth-control advocates insist that unless drastic measures are taken now, India's population will totally outstrip its national resources by 1985; in Punjab, for example, land holdings are already officially limited to 30 acres. Even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once a skeptic on the subject, now agrees. Boasts Nehru: "There is more talk and action on birth control in India officially than in any other country." As if to back up his claim, the Indian government last week announced that the current sterilization campaign is only the beginning. It figures that if 2,150,000 Indians were sterilized...