Word: insist
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...decisive in an extreme situation. They concluded that if they ever had to go to war-which they do hope to avoid-they would have to make serious preparations for effective use of nuclear weapons. If they view the problem that way, we have little choice. If we insist on looking the other way and simply saying over and over again that these weapons are unusable and nuclear war is unthinkable, then we will have a defense unsuited to an adversary's offense, and that could get us into deep trouble. The objective is to formulate a strategy...
Nevertheless, these "very obscure" men are already jockeying for a position they insist could propel them to the Statehouse...
...widely accepted reason for this is that-thriving though it may be-the maternity market is small change. It may also be that the lovely line of a pregnant woman's body is susceptible only to the dictates of nature, not of a designer whose clothes shape-indeed, insist upon-a configuration of his own imagining. "Designers have never paid much attention to maternity clothes because pregnancy is such a temporary state," Norma Kamali remarks. It may be because maternity clothes do have their own afterlife that designers, who depend on variety, fight shy of them. Younger women, once...
...this policy goes beyond providing weapons to the El Salvadoran military On February 11 White stated in the Boston Globe that "the military and economic elites of El Salvador have developed their own rationale to justify their systematic extermination of political leaders, union members, clergy, journalists and campesinos They insist that the Reagan leader ship secretly agrees with their terrorist methods ... President Reagan breathed new life into this chilling theory when he certified that the Salvadoran military was making a concerted effort to protect rights." The Reagan Administration's statements legitimize the military's policies of brutality and murder...
...amply demonstrated and expanded in After the Fact, a collaborative effort by two young writers and teachers of history (both received Ph.D.s from Yale in 1973). Authors Davidson and Lytle want to interest others in the challenges and occasional romance of their discipline. Historians, they insist, are not simply messengers in time, bearers of immutable facts: "For better or worse [they] inescapably leave an imprint as they go about their business: asking interesting questions about apparently dull facts, seeing connections between subjects that had not seemed related before, shifting and rearranging evidence until it assumes a coherent pattern. The past...