"insist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Tell me now," he insisted in point-blank demand much against his stolid nature.
- He insisted on using the phrase "tear down this wall" against the advice of his underlings, for example.
- Niall insisted on helping her dress for the ball, against Sabrina's will.
- The authorities were said to have insisted, against the foreigners' technical advice, that the field continue at full production.
- He insisted on his innocence and the illegality of the charges against him.
- Yet the media insist, against all reason, that there is no possible harm in what they offer.
- During a psychotic episode he insisted on a trial against the advice of his lawyer.
- Others insisted against all likelihood that Muslim forces were attacking.
- Yet the old stone insisted against her face.
- You insisted against all odds upon going back to face that menace again, personally.
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