Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These passages insist that G-d does not require the bravado and grandeur of a supernatural wonder to inform the human condition, but rather speaks to mankind quietly, gently, in the private space of our minds. Perhaps it is there, and not in the miracles of the past, that the divine participates in our modern lives; perhaps it is there that we should be looking...
...steamy subject matter (especially sex) that other publications shy away from; for another, they frequently pay money for stories. Star editors admit they paid 37-year-old prostitute Sherry Rowlands for her details of the alleged trysts with Morris (the amount was "under $50,000," they say). Yet they insist that the transaction did not make them any less confident of the truth of her allegations. In this instance the Star gathered enough supporting evidence to satisfy most editors--though the way they got it would probably make many blanch...
Which, aides now insist, was the best thing that could have happened to the President. It forced him to discipline his naturally roving mind to focus not on dreams of the future but on what is attainable here and now. That, however, was no longer very much. For the past two years Clinton has largely been playing defense--very adroit defense--against Gingrichian zealotry. He cast 15 vetoes in 1995 and 1996, vs. none at all in 1993-94, and held out through two government shutdowns to force congressional Republicans to drop their deepest proposed spending cuts...
Again and again I had to insist that the man I saw was indeed George Stephanopoulos, even though he was apparently trying to travel incognito by combing back that lock of hair he customarily has falling over his forehead. Carville didn't even bother with disguises. He was blatantly Carville...
...there had been a bomb. The official adds that investigators are still considering innocent explanations for the presence of the petn: the tiny trace could, for example, have come from the bag or boot of a person aboard the plane who had worked with the explosives. Investigators also insist that they have not ruled out mechanical failure as a possibility and have sent portions of the plane to NASA experts who handled the Challenger explosion for further study...