Word: insist
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...should fly down to Florida and see for himself what shape his mother is in, both medically and financially. If he finds what you seem to suspect--that his money is going to pay for luxuries these women cannot afford and build up his sister's equity--he should insist on other arrangements (selling the house, for example) and make any future contributions contingent on a strict accounting...
...liberalized; it makes no sense to build competing electric lines. Regulators have pressured transmission companies to cut costs, and the easiest way to do that is to stop investing. "Now there needs to be clear room for investment for upgrading the grid," Lewiner says. In Athens, officials insist that five new substations will come online by next month, enough to ensure that the juice will flow throughout the Olympic Games. But the Continent's electricity system isn't so easily fixed. Regulators have to offer incentives to companies to make long-term investment profitable. Until then, blackouts like...
...argued. Was there actually a robbery, or was she accusing him out of revenge? Like the English concentrator I am, I continually returned to close reading of the “text”—that is, the tape of the phone calls—to insist that it showed evidence of premeditated violence and intimidation, not of rage at being falsely accused. In this, Melina turned out to be my biggest ally. We were like sisters in combat, and I suddenly adored...
...quite the way America does. If other nations have founders at all, they are usually mythical characters, like Romulus and Remus or King Arthur, obscured in the mists of a distant past. Our founders are authentic historical figures about whom we know a great deal. Yet many of us insist on turning these real human beings into larger-than-life heroes against whom we tend to measure ourselves. They seem to be giants. So we wonder: Why don't we have Thomas Jeffersons today, and if we did, what would they have...
...lovely. Such an insouciant and enticing neologism, so perfectly emblematic of Cole Porter, the man who coined it. You enter a movie with that title, prepared to be enchanted. You straggle out a couple of hours later, lost in a fog of gloom. For this film's makers grimly insist that the songwriter's life was essentially a betrayal of his impeccably sophisticated art when they might have more profitably seen his work as a gallant triumph over the difficulties of a messy life...