Word: insist
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...representatives insist that foreign literature is well-represented in Google’s digitization project...
...question on the minds of Iranians is whether Rafsanjani can deliver as President. His supporters insist that his experience and revolutionary credentials give him the clout to push through reforms--like greater press freedom, fewer dress-code and social restrictions, and better relations with the West--that are opposed by hard-line conservatives, who control the judiciary and security forces and are backed by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. In recent years, the mullahs have responded to the rising clamor for change by blocking reform initiatives of the elected leadership. Khatami was so intimidated by Khamenei that...
TIME Is it in Iran's interest to insist on your right to a fuel cycle even if it means being taken to the U.N. Security Council...
...knowledge that "it was a highly placed law-enforcement official, and I presumed that he was in the Justice Department"--and the fact that "never once was any information he was responsible for wrong." Yet in retrospect, he adds, "if I did this again, I probably would insist on knowing who the hell it was earlier...
...Pleased as he is that English speakers are embracing Maori, Piripi fears that some are squeezing it out of shape. His Language Commission has had a long, and so far losing, argument with newspapers that insist on anglicizing Maori words - adding s to mark the plural, for example. Pronunciation is another disputed point. It's said Kiwis have 11 different ways of saying "Maori," from the hackle-raising "Mayo-ree" to the correct "Mow-rri." "New Zealanders have a long way to go in terms of pronunciation," says Piripi. "Really, 200 years of occupation without achieving five simple vowel sounds...