Word: insistent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many intelligence agents and secret service operatives. This is profoundly unsettling. The agents of Syria’s intelligence apparatus can do even more than traditional ground troops to instill fear among the Lebanese populace, and the coalition of the United States, France, Egypt, and Russia is right to insist on their complete withdrawal. So long as Syrian agents remain in force in Lebanon, able to intimidate and spy on voters, the country cannot truly be free; thus Syria’s commitment to finally ending its interference in its neighbor’s affairs remains suspect...
...order him to change the name. Hale grew enraged at the reversal. Days after her ruling, he wrote an e-mail to his followers declaring a "state of war" with the judge and blaming "Jew vermin" for the outcome. (Lefkow is Episcopalian, as was her husband, but extremists insist that one or both of them must be Jewish...
...both optimism and hardheaded caution. "I'm not convinced I'll put in place the perfect system," says Ruddock. "I don't feel I'm God. But I do think we can do a hell of a lot better than we have done." New Zealand men's groups - which insist their country's family law system is more flawed than Australia's - are watching with interest and planning a fresh lobbying assault on parliamentarians...
...Terry and Mahan insist that senior gifts can influence HMC decisions about adjustments to endowment payouts...
...circumstances of his Saudi detention will also be an issue. Once the Saudis decided they didn't have much of a case, they believed they were doing the U.S. a favor by letting the FBI park Abu Ali there, says a source close to the case. The Americans insist the Saudis were not merely keeping Abu Ali on ice but, in the words of a State Department official, "wanted this guy. They thought they could charge him." Either way, the situation came to a head when federal District Judge John Bates ruled that the U.S. might have to disclose...