Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Doboj falls, the corridor will fall too. This is the most critical part of the line," says the local Serb commander. "We will never give it up." Under the Vance-Owen peace plan, Doboj (pronounced dough boy) would be handed back to the Muslims, an event that the Serbs insist will never happen. "This is our last stand," says a Serb who came here a year ago as a refugee from a Muslim town in southern Bosnia. "To take away the corridor is to kill us as a people. We would rather die fighting here...
...council could present an obstacle because the Russians, who hold veto power, insist on taking the Bosnian Serbs' May 15 referendum seriously. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said he hoped "the population will be wiser than its legislative branch." Moscow he said, was not excluding "any option, including tough measures" if the Serbs remain defiant, but Washington wonders if Russia would approve air strikes against fellow Slavs...
...insist that you only see things from a Black point of view, that's chauvinistic verging on racist," he says. "I feel very strongly this is part of a substitute for genuine critical scholarship, replete with ideology...
Coalition members interviewed yesterday insist their plans are on track and that the coalition has merely evolved, with a growing emphasis on the efforts of individual groups and less of a dependence on the coalition as an entity. And while it appears the coalition may be fraying in pursuing its vision of a coherent agenda, it seems to be working...
Child advocates meanwhile insist 2.7 million youngsters are suffering grievous abuse. But that statistic reflects total reports of suspected mistreatment, not substantiated individual cases, warns Douglas Besharov, former director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Moreover, the figure includes not only instances of physical or sexual assault and starvation -- as the public commonly assumes -- but also so-called educational neglect and poor emotional nurturing. Besharov whittles the figure on child abuse to 420,000, though some experts say that...