Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disclosure may have been an accident, but Justice has launched a criminal inquiry. Prosecutors insist their cause is not lost and continue to prepare for the trial, set for February...
...Syrians insist on a comprehensive peace and contend that Sadat made a mistake in signing a bilateral treaty...
...Syrians insist on a comprehensive peace because they don't want to be isolated...
Beneath all the political battles is a basic theological dispute about the role God intends men and women to play in his service. Catholic officials insist that they recognize women's gifts and full spiritual equality but want to preserve distinct roles for each gender. All sides note that for his time, Jesus bestowed uncommon dignity upon women and that in the New Testament church they were remarkably visible as speakers, teachers and deacons...
...primate of world Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, said last year that "the idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy," but backed down when Anglo-Catholics objected. Those who support women's ordination insist that what matters theologically is that God became human, not that he became male. Sister Joan Chittister, a feminist Benedictine in Erie, Pennsylvania, says focusing on ) males "flies in the face of the theology of the Incarnation that says Jesus became flesh, your flesh and mine just as well." She calls this "a theological tragedy...