Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, Farrakhan seemed to be taking a softer line. According to Representative Major Owens of Brooklyn, a Congressional Black Caucus member, "Farrakhan proposed that the caucus serve as an intermediary between himself and the Jewish community. He did not indicate what he wanted to tell them, but he did insist that he wanted peace, that he had been seeking a dialogue." Yet in November when top aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad made a venom-soaked speech at New Jersey's Kean College, a state- funded school, Farrakhan rebuked him only for his "mockery" and said he could not disavow the anti...
...insist that Randall Terry, Joseph Scheidler, Operation Rescue and the Pro-life Action League are only "a few members of the pro-life movement" is to down-play completely the thousands of women they have harassed (not to mention the substantial amount of hours they have spent in prison...
...Insist on free thought and free speech. Offensiveness is a democratic right. The university should be organized around vigorous intellectual inquiry, not therapy or cozy creature comforts.. Harvard has become a nursing home for kids...
...counter-argument from Lindsey and other Clinton aides rests heavily on tax-law technicalities, flat contradictions of McDougal and hypotheses on what probably happened -- suggesting that the First Couple have not kept the aides who try to defend them well informed. Fundamentally, though, they insist all the deductions were legal and proper...
Shopping week crowds may have dispersed, though the unpleasant memories of oversubscribed first-day classes remain. But where others see a mere crowded classroom, we at Dartboard see a full-fledged social structure. Only a select few actually get seats. Yet, like every other noble class, they insist on taking more than they need; instead of sitting next to someone, they leave a seat in between and decadently use the scarce resource for their jackets. Their stiff knees and stern glares warn off any pretenders. (In seminars, there is the further distinction between those seated at the table and those...