Word: insist
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...chin-pulling do-gooders (in addition to the disingenuous partisans) lament the injecting of fear into the campaign. The candidates, they insist, should instead be pointing to the sunny uplands of the American dream and showing how their seven-point program will get us there...
However, Marceau and his company members insist that dance performances have a distinctly different impact on an audience than mime does. Company member Sara Mangano feels that mime expresses “the essence of the movement,” while dance tends to be more decorative...
...otherwise perfectly lucid individuals insist that the Europeans and their unmistakably anti-American cohorts don’t despise us at all. Crazy, I know, but I’ll continue for the sake of argument. This view attributes the world’s emulation of the United States not to a plan to eliminate our well-deserved dominant status, but to a feeling of admiration and a desire to share in our prosperity...
...style that would also put Gore at a disadvantage six years later, and Kerry's challenge, Richards predicts, will be to do what neither she nor Gore could: "Insist on some explanations and some details and not allow him to gloss over issues." But Cahill concedes that Kerry's chances--and those of the debate moderators--will be limited by the Bush campaign's insistence that follow-up questions and rebuttals be sharply restricted...
...term. Ronald Reagan avoided applying it to Saddam Hussein. The first President Bush refused to apply it to the Bosnian Serbs. And Bill Clinton skirted the label for Bosnia and Rwanda. State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly became the face of Clinton's semantic wiggle when she tried to insist that, although hundreds of thousands of Rwandans had been butchered, only "acts" of genocide were occurring...