Word: insist
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...himself as the "anti-Giscard candidate," but the non-Communist French press routinely describes his speeches as "doubletalk." One prominent Socialist leader goes so far as to call him a "Janus, who has two faces: one the anti-Giscard candidate, the other turned against François Mitterrand." Pundits insist that Marchais actually has a carefully masked preference for the re-election of the conservative Giscard over the leftist Mitterrand. His main reason, they reckon: the fear that a Socialist victory would severely undercut the influence of the smaller Communist Party and relegate it to a helpless neither-government...
Marchais, in fact, seems to go out of his way to frighten middle-of-the-road voters out of supporting Mitterrand. One of his latest ploys, incredibly enough, has been to raise the specter of Communist ministers in a Mitterrand government. Mitterrand has been forced to insist that he would never accept them-and in so doing has given Marchais an excuse, should he choose, to ask his membership to boycott the second round rather than vote for Mitterrand...
More important, biblical scholars insist the King James is no longer accurate enough. It was translated from relatively late medieval manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek, the best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...
...distressed by one section of their argument. In arguing against the fact that a draft would more equitably balance the nation's military, they insist that "racial representation becomes an important issue only when lives are at stake, when minorities and the poor do more than their share of the fighting...
...Leary and others who attend ed Reagan insist that he was never in danger. The President, they point out, was conscious and coherent and was stabilized quickly. He was never in shock. Says O'Leary: "With blood, a little goes a long way. I'm sure he looked bad, but at no point was he anywhere close to being in extremis. " As to the blood loss, O'Leary agrees it was large (almost four quarts) but says the rate of loss is more important than the vol ume. Reagan's blood loss was steady, not gushing...