Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insist on Senate ratification of the new fiscal policy, balancing the budget and reducing expenditure...
...Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, said: "Our practice of excluding members of other denominations unless they are baptized again in our way (immersion) is out of harmony with the spirit that is growing in the churches." He indicated that his church would no longer insist on immersion...
...moded with the passage of time and the development of new fads and fancies. At present writing, and as I consider Mrs. Atherton, I have little patience with those exceedingly self-conscious members of the older generation who are, to quote George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, "rocker bound"; who insist on their creaking mentality and absurd clinging to standards which they really never possessed. I'll admit that I do not care for the flapper grandmother; but the dignified preservation of a youthful viewpoint cannot be questioned. The wisdom of age combined with the enthusiasm of youth...
...this Church hold the position of those who are popularly described as Fundamentalists. We believe in the widest freedom of inquiry and of scholarly research. We welcome eagerly all the light that science and scholarship can give. We believe fully in applying modern knowledge to religion, but we insist that the power of God, and His revelation of Himself, shall not be limited by the measure of our human reason, or of our necessarily partial knowledge of the physical order...
...justice, and must provide methods which shall maintain the rule of public right by the development of law and the decision of impartial courts, and which shall secure instant and general international conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, so that the nations pledged to do and insist upon what is just and fair may exercise their influence and power for the prevention of war." Thus, the Democratic party declared for "the League", while the Republican platform avowed its devotion to "an international association", whose members should be pledged to use their influence and power for the prevention...