Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...religious liberals' influence on politics, their excessive secularization of our public schools should make them weep. Admittedly, children do have the constitutionally protected right to pray in school, individually or in groups, silently or aloud, as long as they don't disrupt classroom activities. But the wicked liberals still insist that we shouldn't be able to force them to pray. The liberals have also kept creationist pseudoscience out of our science class-rooms. Evolutionists already have the unfair advantage of scientific evidence. If we can't get creationism in, we cannot allow evolution to be put in our textbooks...
...other Radcliffe officials insist the departures are unconnected, an example instead of the natural ebb and flow of staff hirings at academic institutions...
Hinduism and Buddhism, for example, insist that suffering is simply a manifestation of being human. According to these traditions, the goal of existence is to break away from the cycle of suffering by realizing that worldly possessions and desires are mere illusions. To be one with God, one must seek truth and essentially cease to be human. A noble and spiritual vision, perhaps, but one that many Americans--with our New Year's meals and our TV sets--find difficult to embrace...
...Beauregard '01 has more to her than her sex. The newly elected male in the article, Business Manager Michael Bodell '01, gets to be quoted about the exciting new individuals in the organization, the potential for the future and the prospects for new innovations. Meanwhile Beauregard is left to insist that she never thought much about the gender balance in HCS and doesn't think there are barriers for women in HCS in the first place...
...complex novels in 40 years, never achieved a popular following, but he did win ecstatic acclaim from critics. His innovative use of language and masterly social satire inspired comparisons to Joyce, Pynchon and Melville. When scholars tried to deconstruct his work, he said, "What can I do if people insist I'm cleverer than I think...