Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Randall emphasized the extent to which law and order break down under strike conditions and said that there should be no need for armed forces in plants. "Mobs don't defy order; they destroy it. The responsibility rests on an alert public which can insist upon an orderly government," he said...
...President: Well, Steve, if you insist. That's an awful thing to put up to a fellow at this hour of the morning just out of bed. Suppose we make this background and take some time because it is an awfully big subject to cover, and it is just possible that one or two of you may not have read the whole 28 or 29 pages of the Supreme Court decision...
OPPOSITION O'MALLEY'S RESOLUTION RANK BETRAYAL IMMEDIATE INDEPENDENCE. IF YOU INSIST WILL CHALLENGE YOU DUEL WHERE PERMITTED...
...plan contemplates a church governed by a general assembly, bishops, diocesan synods and congregational councils, new bishops to be chosen from the Free Churches on the basis of their membership. Within this church there would be great freedom of doctrine and worship, but Anglicans would be asked to insist no longer on the sign of the cross at baptism, the wearing of surplices, kneeling at communion. In return the Nonconformists would be expected to forget their oldtime objections to bishops. Said a pamphlet released with the plan: "To many Free Churchmen the word 'bishop' still denotes...
...mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...