Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Countries that contribute troops insist on commanding them from afar. Soldiers from Bulgaria, a hapless lot recruited through local newspaper ads, scandalized the Cambodian provinces with their drinking and womanizing, but the U.N. could not discipline them. A U.N. task force has been created to investigate alleged black marketeering by peacekeepers, as well as charges that blue helmets regularly visited a Serb-run brothel outside Sarajevo whose "prostitutes" were in fact Muslim and Croat prisoners...
...candidates like so much shampoo has its consequences. For years, the voters have been told that each aspirant to political office has all the answers, that pressing dilemmas can be solved quickly, cheaply and without raising taxes. Small wonder, then, that voters would grow impatient with elected officials who insist that the solutions are neither quick nor cheap nor easy...
...belief doesn't "pick my pocket or break my leg." This is not good enough for today's liberals. They want my precious sense of self-esteem to be respected. They demand that others be sensitive to me--what am I saying?--that I be sensitive to others. They insist that the government be given the task of insuring that this happens. They believe, as Cass Sunstein, an expert witness on the other side of the Colorado case said, that the purpose of the Constitution is to "eliminate prejudice...
...scientist at the London School of Economics. "The politicians are very representative of the hard lines in their communities." Many Catholics -- and even some elements in the I.R.A. -- have moved away from their demand for unconditional British withdrawal and full union with the South. But Catholics in the North insist upon a plan that would protect their rights and link them in some way with the Republic. And there's the rub, since Protestant leaders still cling to their belief that the province's union with Britain is immutable...
...museum staff members continue to insist that, regardless of the hearings procedures, Stager's conduct was unethical. The staff said he violated the privacy of staff and professors who use the fax machine...