Word: insists
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...activities of the CIA in domestic spying and government toppling are profoundly disturbing. The CIA must be kept under wider review by both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government. However, it would prove to be a very reckless course to insist on a package deal which would end all intelligence operations. Michael Segal...
...whose endless search for pasturage precludes the development of any culture worthy of the name. He then focuses on other nomads who domesticated only one animal - the horse - and turned it into the basis of a new and terrible art, that of warfare. Bronowski is critical of ethologists who insist that man has some inborn instinct for organized violence. War, he says, is nothing but "a highly planned cooperative effort of theft," rationalized by "the predator posing as hero." Cultures that live by the sword alone "can only feed on the labors of other men." They inevitably die, often because...
...insist on that...
Faisal's political weight in the Arab world has increased as his treasury has grown. The King attends Arab summits like the recent Rabat conference and regularly meets with other Arab leaders. But Faisal apparently says little publicly at these sessions. Saudis insist that he is merely obeying one of his own favorite proverbs: "God gave man two ears and one tongue so we could listen twice as much as we talk." One thing is obvious, however. Faisal's money has tightened ties among Arab nations. At Rabat he led a move in which Saudi Arabia, Kuwait...
Clearly there are two sets of assumptions at work in Bible criticism. Like a Missouri Synod mother who insists that God "would not give us a book with errors," the literalists insist that an omniscient and loving God would give the world an absolutely inerrant Bible. Today's liberals, on the other hand, recognize and generally emphasize the human, historical factor in the Bible's composition?a view that goes much farther in explaining its apparent contradictions and deficiencies. Believing critics argue?and experience has sometimes shown?that rigid faith is the most vulnerable to complete destruction. In their view...