Word: insist
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...chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and host its the summit. Most of these projects, including the inauspiciously named Twin Towers, sit idle for lack of investment. Ordinary Burmese feel baffled and betrayed by the encouragement their oppressors get from Asia's leaders. Privately, Southeast Asian diplomats insist they are heaping more backroom pressure on Burma than their abysmal public showing suggests. One dearly hopes so. ASEAN now faces the prospect of showcasing its member states' considerable achievements in a country that is a global byword for backwardness and brutality...
Others might say that the review began five years earlier, when administrators began tweaking various parts of the nearly thirty-year old Core Curriculum. Still others might insist that the process did not truly begin until last May, when a steering committee and four specialized working groups were rounded up to begin brainstorming...
...renegade, mainland-born James Soong, now leads the PFP. A fiery speaker, Soong carried with him many of the KMT's mainland-born legislators. Since making an uneasy peace with Lien and running as his vice-presidential candidate, Soong has turned the postelection fracas to his advantage. KMT insiders insist he pressured Lien to dispute the election results on the night of March 20, and Soong's followers dominated the stage in massive demonstrations that followed. Protests that began as a show of support for the Pan-Blue cause quickly became a showcase for Soong, with many Taiwanese KMT politicians...
...equivalent in their slangy informality? And wasn’t calling ourselves “girls” and “guys” rather than “men” and “women” just a harmless sign of our prolonged adolescence? Why insist upon calling myself a “woman” when I was in no real hurry to grow up and assume the burdens of adulthood...
...Fallujah and elsewhere. U.S. officials have tended to characterize the Sunni insurgency as the work of Baathist "bitter-enders" and expatriate terrorists - not the sort of folks with whom the U.S. maintains a "discussion track." But the reality of Fallujah is plainly a lot messier: Brig.-Gen. Kimmitt insists the Iraqis killed there are almost all insurgents, but local hospital sources insist most were civilians. The scale of the casualties, and the pause for negotiations suggests that instead of isolating a group of desperadoes, the U.S. has confronted broad opposition in Fallujah...