Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liberal elites will quickly and casually insist those moral objections be kept out of political debate. But that's impossible. Moral understandings form the basis of all legislation, from the tax code to the prohibition of prostitution, polygamy, consensual sex with minors and cruelty to animals...
...more can and should be done to fight AIDS and every other disease on this planet, one need not concurrently find value in homosexuality. Without justice, there can be no peace. To promote justice, one must practice compassion. That sentiment is slow in coming when those demanding it also insist on linking their brethren to Nazism, Fascism and genocide--merely for raising questions central to the issue itself...
...presidential and vice presidential debates introduced the nation to a new phenomenon in national politics. Instead of trying to score a knock-out punch with a witty insult or a derogatory swipe at a rival's character, the candidates are now attempting to appear as amicable as possible. They insist that they are actually good friends and that the differences between them are purely ideological, not personal...
Wisse, who opened the discussion, blamed the lack of Jewish political independence for the historic inability of the Jewish people to gain security for themselves. In Wisse's opinion, the goal of a new Jewish political strategy should be to break this pattern of dependence and to insist on reciprocity with other nations...
...School insist on using the Forum because they want fame and prestige. They want the speaker's presence to somehow rub off on their building and give them more credibility, for the next day's New York Times to report that Mrs. Clinton spoke at "Harvard's Kennedy School of Government...