Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration spokesmen continue to insist the raw intelligence about Gaddafi's activities was accurate, if overblown. The sources for the Wall Street Journal story, they said, had glossed over the relative value of the intelligence information and the U.S. military's readiness to respond. The Journal story quoted a "top official" as saying Gaddafi "seems to have gone off his rocker again." Other officials claimed he was involved in terrorist plots in Cyprus and Berlin. But the Poindexter memo contended that "Gaddafi is temporarily quiescent in his support of terrorism." The Journal wrote that Administration officials were convinced...
...pact in shape for the leaders to sign if and when they eventually meet in the U.S. That does seem possible; negotiators in Geneva have come close to accord on the basic numbers. But an INF pact is far from assured. Though Moscow no longer insists that one be linked to a reduction on long-range strategic weapons and a ban on space defenses, Gorbachev is expected to propose a different sort of linkage. He will probably urge that an INF agreement be accompanied by a U.S. pledge to observe, for another two or three years, the strategic limits contained...
...government officials insist on assessingthe quality of higher education in ways that willaffect the lives of students and the welfare ofinstitutions, it is essential that the means ofevaluation be more sophisticated than thestandardized test currently used for thesepurposes," Bok wrote in his report...
...must beware of "academic Bolsheviks"--those who insist on our following their views without question...
Much of Augustine's energy as a bishop was spent resisting heretics and schismatics, which led him to insist on the hierarchical church as the authoritative teacher and sole channel of salvation. Though this view later buttressed papal powers, Augustine defied Pope Zosimus when the Pontiff tolerated Pelagius, whose theology was so optimistic that humanity scarcely seemed to need a Saviour...