Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intentions uncertain. Today the West Bank has 72 Jewish settlements, with a population of 24,000. Fourteen more communities are under construction. These outposts are inhabited mainly by middleclass, well-educated Israelis, who believe that the Bible gives them a timeless right to the land and who insist they will not move, come what...
Talk of reform frequently comes to the lips of English-speakers. But the changes most of them are willing to allow come nowhere near meeting Black demands. Few whites realize that in the past couple of years, Blacks have come to insist on full equality and freedom. And they want these things right away. In 1979, Prime Minister P.W. Botha declared that apartheid was at an end. South Africans must "adapt or die," he warned. Most Blacks believed him. When his promises of sweeping reform proved to be empty, Blacks were extremely disillusioned--and more bitter than ever. Tofile...
...then decide whether a suspect should be indicted. Grand juries are supposed to protect citizens against intimidating prosecutions, but many experts now regard them as a needless anachronism and an opportunity for prosecutorial excess. Most states no longer require their use, but the federal courts and 22 states still insist upon them for serious crimes...
...hand any proposal made by the Palestine Liberation Organization or its Syrian allies; the Palestinians and Syrians will have no truck with anything that originates in Jerusalem. Israeli sources claimed that the plan had been proposed by Philip Habib, the special U.S. envoy to the Middle East. American diplomats insist that the U.S. has not put forward a comprehensive proposal. As outlined by Israeli officials, perhaps as a trial balloon they hope to shoot down, the plan involves three stages of diplomatic and military movements...
...million, supplying more than 20,000 tons of rice at subsidized prices and building new barracks for the army. A team of 100 U.S. Special Forces soldiers arrived in Monrovia on the first anniversary of Doe's coup for joint exercises with the Liberian armed forces. American diplomats insist that they aim to promote a degree of stability that will allow the Liberians to enjoy the "fruits of the revolution." They are also clearly pleased with the pro-American drift of the Doe regime...