Word: insistences
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...Alliance, its leaders insist that despite last week's disappointing harvest of seats, the coalition is here to stay...
...Hornets insist they are trying. Weber points to the dozens of picnics and cocktail parties to which the team has flocked, a grassroots effort to connect with fans on the ground. The prices are relatively fan-friendly: the average Hornets ticket costs $31, just 60% of the NBA league average...
...didn't take long for religion to become an issue in the campaign. In the spring of 2004, a handful of conservative Catholic bishops began to insist that Kerry, a Roman Catholic, should be denied Communion because of his support for abortion rights. A media frenzy - quickly dubbed the "Wafer Watch" - soon metastasized, with journalists following Kerry to Mass each Sunday and doing everything but checking his molars for evidence that he had indeed been given Communion...
...constant worry because of the simple and irreversible passage of time. Many of the founders of recently-founded magazines are now seniors and have had to face the issue, at one point or another, of finding someone just as passionate about their projects as they are. Many magazines thus insist on the immediate immersion of new members. “It’s a matter of raising a profile, but also keeping a constant influx of interested people and making room for new young members,” Cowles says...
...theft of some sort. Otherwise why would Nicole Scherzinger sport a ski mask indoors? Or why would Timbaland have video screens installed in the trunk of his whip that read “Target Secured?” There are other questions to ask though. Like why does Timbaland insist on going shirtless for so much of the video? And what, exactly, is this target that’s being secured? In end, the clip’s most valuable asset is its sheer randomness. Shots of Tim whispering into Nicole’s ear are intercut with shots...