Word: insistences
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Though she has a reputation for dealing aggressively with crooked cops and judges, Reno has been criticized for passing off to federal prosecutors the difficult job of pressing corruption charges against local officials. Her defenders insist that this strategy makes it easier to get convictions, since federal trial procedures give the accused fewer advantages in court than they get under Florida law. While she is an opponent of the death penalty, she has obtained it in 80 capital cases...
Still, members insist money is not the real reason they play in a band. "We do it for the thrill of playing," Preston says. "That's all you really need...
...Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine in law refuge for abused women...
These problems only further confuse the gerontocratic leaders in Hanoi and reinforce their fear of change. The social problems so reminiscent of those that plagued the country during the American occupation also strengthen the hand of the already powerful security forces, who insist on keeping the country a police state. Although in 1992 Hanoi released the last political prisoners held because of service to the old Saigon regime, thousands of new "enemies" have been discovered. The police may not be able to stop banditry, prostitution or corruption, but woe to anyone openly critical of the government. The regime has even...
...transition officials insist that the greatest challenge is the least concrete: to make clear to the public that the Attorney General is not just the President's lawyer, and that the Justice Department is not in the pocket of whatever special interests hold sway in Washington at this political moment. "The new leadership is going to have to project the idea," says a Clinton adviser, "that we are going to enforce the law fairly, for all citizens...