Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practical matter, could the U.S. have intervened effectively without committing itself to a march on Baghdad and a lengthy occupation of the whole country? The critics mostly say they would not have favored that course. But many insist the U.S. would have needed only to shoot down Saddam's helicopter gunships, as Bush once threatened to do. Deprived of air power, argued the critics, Saddam would have been toppled by the rebels or at least forced to come to terms with them...
...First American's president, are now under scrutiny by a New York grand jury seeking to determine whether the pair were knowing front men for one of the most ingenious bank tycoons of the modern age: B.C.C.I.'s founder, Agha Hasan Abedi of Pakistan. Clifford and Altman insist they were not, despite long and close connections. They were attorneys for B.C.C.I. from 1978 through 1990, as well as attorneys for First American, billing the two banks for more than $1 million during that period. Clifford, who has long defended Abedi, says he is no longer so sure about the bank...
...view is a long way from prevailing in Jerusalem -- let alone Damascus, which in any talks is likely to insist on recognition of its effectual control of Lebanon as well as return of the Golan Heights. But the voices of Olmert and like-minded thinkers are unlikely to be drowned out, because they have logic on their side...
...rights of the individual when they conflict with the community's prevailing opinion. Where it is taboo to debate the moral fitness of homosexuals as parents, and sexist to order a Domino's pizza because the chain's chairman donates money to an antiabortion group. Imagine institutions that insist they absolutely defend free speech but punish the airing of distasteful views by labeling them unacceptable "behavior" instead of words -- and then expel the perpetrators...
Like it or not, Iran will insist on a role in the region as payment for its restraint. Iraq's weakness makes Iran stronger, threatening the old balance of power among the big Middle Eastern states. A more confident Tehran could clash with Saudi Arabia over oil-pricing policy. But the country needs Western cooperation to resuscitate its economy, and the U.S. hopes that will encourage continued good behavior...