Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through the southwest gate in order to avoid reporters. "By keeping in such close touch, we did not cross lines," says Laghi. "My role was primarily to facilitate meetings between Walters and the Holy Father. The Holy Father knew his people. It was a very complex situation -- how to insist on human rights, on religious freedom, and keep Solidarity alive without provoking the communist authorities further. But I told Vernon, 'Listen to the Holy Father. We have 2,000 years' experience at this...
Certainly, those of Russian origin may feel it is culturally insensitive to silence these treasures from the Donailov Monastery. Others may insist that such an act means discarding the Eastern six-note scale in favor of the Western eight-tone scale...
...like the local customs in the house of your own choosing, however, and haven't tried to transfer, then I must rephrase the imperative toward rootedness. That is to say: I still must insist that you do, indeed, go and eat in your own damn house. Just because you've condemned yourselves to the last level of the Inferno is no excuse for making our lives a dining hell...
...impossible to detect where one Duchesnay's effort ends and the other's begins. They insist that their musical, athletic and competitive talents are equally matched. "We split the stunts up fifty-fifty," says Isabelle. Concurs Paul: "There isn't one who's lazier than the other." Having spent almost every day of their lives together since adolescence, they claim to be totally in synch. "I know exactly how he feels on the ice every minute of every day," Isabelle states. Remarkably, the two say they have never considered splitting up the team. "Even if we lose," says Isabelle...
Another impediment is what Luck calls "logrolling at its worst" in the General Assembly. The Arabs, for example, insist on maintaining a separate office for the Palestinians, and the Africans a special committee on apartheid. The two groups have banded together to protect both bureaucratic units, even though neither has a role to play in the affairs of the other...