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"insistent" Definitions
  1. demanding something and refusing to accept any opposition or excuses
  2. continuing for a long period of time in a way that cannot be ignored
"insistent" Synonyms
persistent dogged emphatic demanding determined importunate pressing tenacious unrelenting urgent adamant obstinate persevering assertive exigent firm unfaltering unyielding decided forceful repeated constant incessant repetitive unremitting iterative repetitious monotonous reiterative boring ceaseless uninteresting verbose continual dull duplicative frequentative recurrent recurring clamorous intrusive loud noisy obtrusive vociferous vehement vocal strident raucous outspoken full-throated obstreperous vociferant direct forthright uninhibited rowdy vigorous aggressive energetic dynamic zealous strong powerful pushy enterprising strenuous feisty bold potent muscular resounding dogmatic doctrinaire opinionated pontifical inflexible opinionative opinioned uncompromising prejudiced rigid bigoted cocksure obdurate pigheaded stubborn fanatical dominant commanding authoritative supreme predominant superior predominate prevailing prevalent supereminent imposing premier prepollent prime dominating domineering prepotent unassailable peremptory dictatorial imperious autocratic overbearing bossy tyrannical authoritarian despotic tyrannous masterful arbitrary autocratical tyrannic magisterial overweening flat absolute definite downright outright positive straight explicit plain unconditional categorical final unqualified complete cotton-picking stark thorough total insatiable unquenchable unappeasable insatiate quenchless unslakable greedy voracious rapacious inextinguishable edacious esurient avid hungry prodigious intemperate eager uncontrollable yearning keen compelling convincing conclusive persuasive cogent irrefutable telling valid incontrovertible rational sound effective reasonable reasoned reliable solid crucial critical key pivotal decisive climacteric deciding testing determining important momentous searching settling trying big central consequential fundamental influential major More
"insistent" Antonyms
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968 Sentences With "insistent"

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They're insistent that she move, she's insistent that she won't, and soon "the four of us are the junta running the place," he said.
But others — particularly younger lawmakers — may be more insistent.
There are constant, insistent requests: Find me a weapons supplier.
After a pause, her voice grew louder and more insistent.
Unfortunately, insistent platitudes and pigeonholing tend to mar Unger's efforts.
So, games are very insistent that way, and it's interesting.
" But he was insistent, mocking her by saying, "That's okay.
Trump is insistent that the Boy Scouts crowd loved him.
People exclaimed, and the cameras made their insistent cicada noises.
The complaints have grown louder and more insistent ever since.
Why are Trump and Pence so insistent on erasing us?
But Erens beautifully evokes its insistent rhythms and protective deliriums.
Mr. Warner, by then Facebook's most insistent inquisitor in Congress.
The longer Annese stalled, the more insistent Corkin's demands became.
McConnell's keyboards were first pillowy, then brazen, staccato, and insistent.
The insistent applause felt intended to obliterate the remaining questions.
Kelly was connected to the earth, selling an insistent masculinity.
Don't be fooled by Hollywood's insistent caricatures of intelligent criminals.
The commanders in his head became stronger and more insistent.
CEO Brown has been insistent that this is by design.
Oklahoma City's insistent penetration led the Warriors to commit 1043 fouls.
In fact, I would probably be more insistent with a guy.
But Pompeo seems insistent that she doesn't need a love interest.
Mateen started out repeating phrases in an insistent, almost robotic manner.
Progressive leaders are insistent that any other approach would be counterproductive.
It is the problematic stepchild in a world insistent on categorization.
But these flecks become insistent rhythmic riffs and quasi-melodic patterns.
He was very insistent on calling it that—a love affair.
An employee who investigated complaints said Ford was insistent on proof.
What about that insistent crisis of national conscience "the American Negro"?
The V-selfie, though very much here, is perhaps less insistent.
But until recently the company was insistent on pursuing its case.
Next time we saw her, she was MORE insistent and flirty.
"No, no, no, no-no," she said in an insistent murmur.
The Natives in these pages are diverse, loud, insistent and engaging.
All those thousands of people, loud, insistent and marching for change.
Mr. Walczak's steady, not overly insistent knocking had won her over.
The President was insistent that news of Comey's firing not leak.
Or maybe that he was art—textural, operatic, insistent on worship.
The music drives ahead, with insistent rhythms and operatic high notes.
"The authorities were insistent that he plead guilty," Mr. Liang said.
It was classic Trump: Confident, hyperbolic and insistent on asserting control.
The movies are insistent thought-provokers, but also beautiful to behold.
"  But the signs in the crowd were insistent: "Florida is Marco Rubio
He&aposs quite insistent and really fired up about the whole thing.
It's a psychedelic, almost eerie tune structured only by an insistent drumbeat.
Nor is the possessive, insistent approach to Game of Thrones particularly shocking.
Giuliani, however, has been insistent that he and the President are synced.
Cerreti knew that she could seem aloof, insistent on procedure and discipline.
Some GOP lawmakers are wavering and Democratic opposition is loud and insistent.
Lawmakers are insistent they will keep pressing for answers from the administration.
Why do you think that she's so insistent on not admitting fault?
There is a quiet but insistent sense of challenge in her writing.
Local officials grew more insistent and threatened to tear down their bathroom.
The loud, insistent soundtrack and visual disjunctions are not aesthetic but actual.
Critics in Russia remained insistent that there was a state connection, however.
I love "The girl next door," a less insistent departure for Sherald.
The noise, the stranger, the Facebook add, whatever it is, it's insistent.
Kim, then 85, was in poor health but was insistent on going.
It's why the insistent, quotidian quiet of "Loving" can feel so startling.
Its aromas were insistent and sharply contoured, profoundly fruity yet deliciously pure.
Meanwhile, have you heard an insistent purring closing in on Times Square?
I'm not sure this is a good idea but he is insistent.
I didn't want to do one, but the fans were so insistent.
There is a constant wind, a little more insistent than a breeze.
I was insistent that we are not taking money from these people.
She is insistent that Fauna should never discover the truth of her origin.
Warm air surrounds me with thick arms, and I welcome its insistent embrace.
Above all, buyers are becoming more insistent on their right to shop around.
Why is he so insistent on staying all alone in the honeymoon suite?
It's not hard to see Eleven, insistent and peculiar, as a young Joyce.
Netflix seems insistent on showing him things I'd prefer my toddler not see.
He was insistent that the girl was being kind and offering a favor.
She just remained insistent that her motivation was never meant to be harmful.
But, I am insistent to anyone who asks that, yes, I won one.
But she was very insistent that the movie not just be about her.
American, European and Canadian skiers, swimmers and runners have added their insistent voices.
"Who's voting for him?" one of my sisters kept asking, insistent and angry.
Cell phones play a "pervasive and insistent part of daily life," Roberts wrote.
"Oi, I said Roger Goodell has died," an insistent follow-up tweet read.
So how insistent will he be when he has his chance with Putin?
IT IS HOURS later when you first feel the drum, faint but insistent.
It feels old-fashioned and weirdly paternalistic that he's so insistent about paying.
Orange Is the New Black's theme song is a powerful and insistent earworm.
Hurston is equally insistent on displaying the bruised, bloody underside of romantic misadventure.
As Justice William Brennan aged, inevitable questions about his retirement grew more insistent.
It was like latching onto a climbing wall, and he was very insistent.
Now and then, an insistent detail adds a narrational twist to a painting.
It was all full of air and breath without losing its insistent innocence.
What would be more accurate would be to say that she is insistent.
But Jill Noe, a former college basketball star who is Whitney's twin, was insistent.
I felt you touch my hips, my sides, your lips insistent against my nape.
And I think that when women are persistent and insistent we're viewed as tough.
But Trump is said to be insistent, as some kind of "America first" policy.
Desperate and reserved, straightforward and insistent, and finally just snapping and losing his patience.
The party has become far less insistent that it can do everything by itself.
The most insistent thorn in their sides is an officious F.B.I. agent (Annie Grier).
I have been quite insistent that the Fed was done raising rates last December.
But why on earth is Palin so insistent on showing off her freaking tea?
Brands are insistent on designing their own version of vintage 501's without prevail.
Next week, your sister's turning 21 and insistent on making it a huge deal.
Meritech approached Olson and was insistent with its interest in leading a growth round.
She is insistent that she share her experience so that people know what happened.
One of the novel's most insistent themes is the tension between preservation and exploitation.
The White House remained insistent that Trump does not require testing or self-isolation.
This is something that these youth are insistent about, consistent about, and persistent about.
She was very insistent that when you came in you had fingerings figured out.
Her saxophone sound is insistent, mournful and devout, all at once; mostly, it's inspiring.
Her insistent imagery and sometimes oblique narrative approach don't always deliver the dividends sought.
Those companies known to load inventories were the most insistent on the exact wording.
Each dancer in a different way looked alone in a wilderness: deracinated, insistent, limited.
They were so convincing, and so insistent, that for 40 years people believed them.
"Delrahim has been quite insistent that he does not want behavioral decrees," Jacobson said.
As Roy made excuses to put off his plans, her texts became more insistent.
Mr. Sanders has been insistent that he will not run a negative campaign against Mrs.
Eventually, Trump becomes insistent that any bill he signs will protect people with preexisting conditions.
I ask him maybe ten more times if he is sure, but he is insistent.
Republicans who heard the same information were insistent that it was not so clear-cut.
No evidence supported Trump's insistent questions about Obama, and yet he kept pushing the issue.
However, Erika is insistent that she doesn't force Haru to do anything against her will.
Nilsson and Marlene's lithe vocals tread carefully over the insistent beat; it's a delicate anthem.
The song is purposefully baroque, with Palmer and Power's voices wailing over an insistent piano.
Mistry is insistent that her decision to close Juhu is not the result of failure.
But she is insistent that she can't focus solely on being a woman while campaigning.
Nothing about this date seemed particularly fun, but Becca is insistent that she likes Colton.
But insistent or clumsy flirting is not a crime, nor is gallantry a chauvinist aggression.
Some harassment by an authority figure, a few sexual remarks, pressure from an insistent boyfriend?
It's insistent and surprising, the sour tang that emerges in a glass of good lemonade.
Games are insistent on the player's attention, but they're not always good at keeping it.
Her husband, Tyler, certainly seems open to it — but is insistent he wants a boy.
When I talked to Kehler recently, he was very insistent about including the "war" descriptor.
Such books refract ordinary life into the grotesque surreal through their insistent lack of engagement.
Though few whistle at his level, Lomax remains insistent that anyone can improve their whistling.
His new attorney is quite insistent on his client's rights and your obligation to pay.
" The poem's insistent cadence mimics the beat of a clock, and its chorus, "Forever — never!
But she was persistent, insistent, and consistent, which are three signs of a transgender child.
He was extremely engaged, very particular, and insistent about how he wanted his points delivered.
He's insistent that my friend's presence would invade his/our space during an important time.
Facebook is insistent on seeing its failures as harming individuals, never society as a whole.
Strangely, though, the company is really insistent on getting people to associate it with sleep.
Others scamper around him, laying on hands and making odd, insistent shapes with their limbs.
If someone is really insistent that we not listen to a song, I'll skip it.
Then the second viola muscles in like an unwelcome memory with a coldly insistent motif.
Saudi officials remain insistent that Prince Mohammed did not know about the killing in advance.
It's all a swift reversal from the insistent, don't-worry tone of my last column.
It was barely noticeable yet insistent, just a genial note reminding me I was hungry.
Trump has been insistent about visiting Puerto Rico as quickly as possible, two sources said.
Smartphone news notifications and television chyrons are insistent, and they suggest a kind of urgency.
But the Ugandans were insistent, defense officials said, and the Americans offered up Brig. Gen.
I was particularly insistent that we remain in our home, which my husband had chosen.
Packed schedules, insistent donors and relentless questions from reporters are all part of the deal.
Of all the current justices, Roberts has been most insistent that judges are not political.
Trump, however, was insistent that his administration begin taking another action -- denying asylum seekers entry.
Its fingerpicked vamp carries insistent minor-key melodies and a little bit of ngoni shredding.
My boss was really insistent on getting this project finished, even more so than usual.
They hang back at the entrances to exhibits, inching forward in a polite yet insistent way.
"Cave" is a throbbing track that has soft-synth verses giving way to an insistent chorus.
But Ivo was insistent that they were released as they were, and then do three more.
Chief Justice Roberts has positioned himself as the Court's most insistent defender of First Amendment freedoms.
It's a catchy, insistent gem that still sounds vital now (and still gets played in clubs).
Every now and then, I'll go out with someone who is insistent, but it's pretty rare.
And, more than ever, their quiet yet insistent messages on social responsibility are gaining influential allies.
That's why Pop is so insistent on becoming a mentor to young kids on the street.
It's been insistent in the past that driverless cars can help save lives, but concerns linger.
Even classical liberals who were most insistent on removing constraints on individual freedom agonised about atomisation.
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said the president will be "insistent" on border wall funding.
"The defendant was insistent that he did not order fra diavolo," Koulmey's attorney Jeremy D'Amico said.
Eventually, Trump becomes insistent that any bill he signs will protect people with pre-existing conditions.
The sky darkened, the stars in this dark place spread across the sky bright and insistent.
My wife was insistent that I needed to buy some new business pants for my trip.
But the President was insistent that the time had come for US personnel to come home.
Goldstone says he advised Emin against the meeting, but Emin was insistent on setting it up.
Democrats, meanwhile, are insistent they will not approve any plan that includes funding for the wall.
Mr. Trump's broad criticism of the democratic system overshadowed his own insistent efforts to put Mrs.
Though he was insistent on being heard, Jobs would also respect a well-thought out opinion.
He was always insistent that in spite of his public disgrace, they would take him back.
Even after their deaths, Nancy Saunders remained insistent that her family was not a sideshow attraction.
The insistent point conveys how he feels about social inequality and our political system, Stewart says.
The music filled the courtroom Wednesday, introduced by insistent beats and the wail of a siren.
No birds were near the narrow ledge; a taxi's insistent honking the only noise from outside.
She has to fight off the insistent, unignorable urge to put hand sanitizer in her mouth.
But the insistent realness of a Trumpalike onstage does distort the way the play comes across.
When she spoke, her soft insistent voice resounded as if it were inside his own chest.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. asked if insistent repetition could turn a statement into a crime.
The pastor's playing style was spare and insistent, reminiscent of one of John Coltrane's spiritual songs.
Nate Silver, the statistician who founded FiveThirtyEight, was especially insistent that impeachment was a terrible idea.
But we silence this ancient, insistent voice at great cost to our own psychological well-being.
The former vice president's many allies in the Senate have been particularly insistent on the point.
At first the pianos played breathlessly spiraling figures and insistent rhythms, music that nodded to Bartok.
The studio has been unusually insistent in its pleas to critics not to reveal plot points.
Yet Mr. Filoni and the story group were insistent that there was more to Ahsoka Tano.
As a general response, one of the things the 1994 report was insistent on was accountability.
Instead, our world is fragmented into tribes — all insistent on surviving, but on their own terms.
Both Spotify and Simmons are insistent that nothing will change on the editorial side of the equation.
It's relentless and insistent, with ticking noises and wave after crashing wave of strings heightening the tension.
But in an interview with CNBC, CEO Tim Cook was very insistent that it's still smooth sailing.
The song itself is free, wandering up into Guardiola's upper register, which is grounded by insistent drums.
But they were also insistent: They would not call a vote unless they believed it would pass.
Throughout, Pai was insistent that he'd never withheld information at any time from his two Democratic colleagues.
A ballad of intersectionality, the series speaks to the slow, insistent churn of any civil rights movement.
Paradoxically, the pages speed by when time is slowed down, because Proulx's characters are vivid, insistent, captivating.
Trump, however, is insistent that partnership with Beijing isn't a requirement for staving off the nuclear threat.
He describes the ugly and mutually-frustrating results of every battle between insistent courts and reluctant agencies.
What saves this work from overreach is the insistent return to the problem of abundant human labour.
In the U.S., businesses, farmers, unions and Congress insistent that there must be a three-nation agreement.
Though the post was at times rambling, Mr. Denton's message was insistent: Gawker will be just fine.
So why, then, is McConnell so insistent on being a portent of doom for the GOP majority?
His voice was insistent, and I could hear, and feel, that he wanted the session to end.
In mitigation, she has a recognizable, superfluously insistent way of buzzing that functions as a heads-up.
The president, claiming he saved Balderson's bacon, will be even more insistent about engaging in key races.
Often he'll land on an ostinato pattern, repeating an insistent phrase until it becomes its own song.
Everyone always has their own opinions, so it's backlash from being insistent on doing my own thing.
When I drank the 21868 in August, I was riveted by its depth, complexity and insistent intensity.
But the environment also served as a fitting partner for the brightly insistent music of Terry Riley.
Leaf blowers have ruined autumn with their insistent whine and their noxious fumes, and they are everywhere.
They are insistent, however, that it would only take a few thousand votes to sway the contest.
Distance running is always a negotiation; it's about quieting a compelling, insistent whisper telling you to stop.
But the neighborhood remains lively as well as lyrical, with its handsome townhouse rows and insistent greenery.
It's simply experience accumulated pleasurably, tempered with a recognition that complexities and wisdom differ from insistent opinions.
Those insistent on keeping loaded weapons handy could use an inexpensive rapid access safe with a keypad.
An insistent chordal vamp, searching for some kind of harmony, trying to make sense of it all.
First, it's clear that the base of Democratic voters is pretty insistent that the party do this.
George Wallace (D) was insistent that his state's right took precedence over the Congress and federal courts.
The Speaker also said that President Trump has been "very insistent" that the fourth bracket be included.
Under insistent questioning by Ms. Maitlis, the duke insisted he had "no recollection" of meeting Ms. Giuffre.
It is characterized by an insistent lack of naturalism, its almost lurid color and its melodramatic theme.
On the trail, only an insistent canyon wren and breezes in the cottonwoods broke an enfolding silence.
Bloomberg is as insistent on order as Trump is on disorder, as steady as Trump is spastic.
Her voice is low and insistent, in a thick, trudging, orchestral track that faces burdens with tenacity.
That preference is beginning to get more insistent and urgent, turning into a demand for immediate change.
Who doesn't like waking up naturally, without an insistent ringing telling you it's time to get up?
Obama is insistent that it is the Republican-led Senate's constitutional duty to act on his nominee.
I hadn't shot something for a long time, and my entire team was very insistent that I do.
But Obama and the Nordic nations are insistent the financial restrictions be renewed when they expire this summer.
And, frankly, she had no idea how insistent the Apple Watch could be when it comes to notifications.
But when Krennic gets a little too insistent, Vader force-chokes him until he falls to the floor.
The result felt like an assemblage of thistle-like fragments, insistent little motifs that hang together before dissolving.
We're hearing threats of boycotts and social isolation, attacks on Starbucks, and emotional, insistent lobbying of his advisers.
Reddit threads, for example, have been more insistent than ever on making sure users use VPNs before downloading.
The US remains insistent that it does not target Syrian forces, only ISIS and al Qaeda, officials said.
Add to that some insistent beats and a wry sense of humor, and you get pretty memorable music.
And I've seen others from folks who are insistent their iPad came that way out of the box.
Jude & Carter Carter and Jude are flirting up a storm, but Carter is still insistent that he's straight.
At the end, the soul is reunited with body, but the insistent belief in his world never fades.
"This energy of this younger woman is almost insistent in the way this is coming through," Henry says.
Some had set up folding chairs, others searched out a sliver of shade beneath the insistent Arizona sun.
Ever since its release a decade ago, consumer demand for useful, beautiful product experiences have grown more insistent.
In "Material," the insistent repetition and metallic twang of those sounds are transformed into music of mysterious theatricality.
It begins with a rude, insistent electronic drumbeat and wilting keyboard chords, and slowly rises to its feet.
But she left in others, knowingly, which gave her closing taunt in "Don't Hurt Yourself" two insistent bleeps.
The road to yes involved a fragmented political landscape, an insistent fan base and gently prodding studio executives.
But Republicans were insistent they wanted changes to the bill highlighting the complicated debate over drug prices. Rep.
That's part of the reason why Trump has been so insistent about pressuring the Fed into cutting rates.
But there's one procedure the 38-year-old reality star is insistent she hasn't had: a nose job.
Here the original's insistent rhythm is unravelled, slowed down to a swirl of chants and tranquil synthesizer tones.
They were both insistent: they needed an autopsy, and they wanted someone to look at their son's brain.
He was insistent that the leader accede to the plan, or quit: MS-4243 would tolerate no dissidents.
Throughout the track Mr. Gupta pushes the band ahead with a loose, insistent clatter, using his entire kit.
Such a confession is not surprising, since Hammer was so passionately insistent on always starting with the self.
It's an unhurried reminder that hip-hop can be beautiful, careful, and insistent even when it's slowed down.
So why is the Trump administration so insistent on relaxing a regulation beyond what the auto industry wants?
The winemakers at Comando G make graceful, harmonious yet insistent wines that I could not help but love.
These moments are swamped, however, by the author's insistent intellect and her gift for turning over rich soil.
"Can't Stop" is a good place to start, and not just because of that strange, spare, insistent riff.
I couldn't understand where she wanted me to go, but she was so insistent that I started walking.
Sameer Tiger was armed, and insistent, and had arrived with three others who were waiting in the road.
Because you were so insistent and I admired the guts that you had for such a young person.
Chile brings an insistent thrust to every dish, sometimes a scorch and quick retreat, sometimes a steady radiance.
To these, we in the arts and education world would like to add our small but insistent voice.
Racism is seldom openly acknowledged in "Paris"; it is instead a stealthy, insistent part of its general climate.
But the lawyers are less insistent on finding facts that might instead undercut their suspicion, former officials said.
The sex part is obvious, but she is also more insistent about her real fakeness, her digital sentience.
It has a relatively basic structure: 53 short interlocking repetitive patterns centered around a doggedly insistent rhythmic pulse.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN VERY INSISTENT ON IS RELAXING THE DODD FRANK REGULATIONS.
Ever since 9/11, flight crews and cabin crews have been relatively insistent that passengers follow the rules.
He takes credit for the economy in a more pervasive and insistent way than any president before him.
His drum work in the studio was subtle and insistent, often resembling the clapping of fine-fingered hands.
President Erdogan might be so insistent with his messaging because he has been at war with Turkey's journalists.
Heiferman told her that he wasn't looking at new work, but the voice on the phone was insistent.
The voice grows louder and more insistent—perhaps he's becoming reckless or, more likely, wants me to hear him.
Government officials are insistent that the island remains safe for now outside of the area immediately surrounding Mount Agung.
Silicon Valley lobbying groups recommended reform on both bills, but were resoundingly more insistent on 215 reform than 702.
They were insistent and I didn't mind because I respected people who didn't back down and kept at it.
Also, generally speaking, the girls I've been on dates with become more insistent that we share expenses over time.
It's an insistent, slightly choked twang both powerful and needy, conjured from somewhere between his nose and his larynx.
There's a metaphor here — the big man buys and abuses the little man — working against the film's insistent whimsy.
Microsoft has released detailed instructions to turn off the insistent notifications about upgrading your operating system to Windows 10.
The children had become increasingly insistent they didn't want to see him, and specifically stay over at his house.
So, we will extend the opportunity again in the future, but we will be more insistent the next time.
And Louie Gohmert has been very insistent on Fox News and elsewhere saying that the elsewhere was not Russia.
At Chihuo, they create similar lists, but are insistent on sub-categories like breakfast, lunch, dinner, or regional divides.
But when Saints Row: The Third came out, several of my colleagues were insistent about giving it a try.
This insistent realism and sense of the moment owes almost entirely to the lucent quality of the color slide.
Although book critics called his work "unpolished" and "explicit," Arobateau remained insistent about the importance of portraying sex honestly.
"Luca thinks 'Cofant Croissant' is like, the coolest name," Duff said, adding that he was insistent about his pick.
An insistent cough sabotaged her every effort, resisting gulps of water and reducing her words to a feeble croak.
The most insistent ingredient is smoke; sweetness is teased out of cinnamon and allspice, with no interference from sugar.
Both the rise of apps and Kayla's clear and insistent consent before she takes a drink seem like progress.
But good wines, like these pinot noirs, have an insistent way of drawing attention no matter what the conditions.
" Their daughter shared that same insistent sunniness and, like her father, Saoirse "always has a different twist on things.
Elodie is seriously terrified of the idea — "You can't steal from a store this small" — but Sabine is insistent.
Ms. Raphel, in negotiations with the government, rejected plea deals and has been insistent that she face no charges.
Jordan's commitment was so complete, his hunger so insistent, that it seemed somehow to have crowded everything else out.
Her father ran a drug ring and was insistent that their Dominican culture was the only thing that mattered.
And why do you think that Sheryl and Mark are so insistent on not being called a media company?
Mr. Trump has been particularly insistent, as lower rates would weaken the dollar and help with his trade wars.
The orchestra backs him up by grinding out insistent figures as other instruments needle the music with piercing dissonance.
The country's insistent egalitarianism often requires self-deprecation and the deflection of praise as a prerequisite for public affection.
Japan is also insistent that is not preparing to postpone the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled from July 24-Aug. 9.
After years of leaving WhatsApp untouched and independent, Mr. Zuckerberg was insistent that the free service start making money.
He's equally measured and insistent, and never grows too garrulous, even when he's moving quickly across a leaping range.
And while Mr. de Blasio seemed determined on Monday to sound insistent and conciliatory, others did not hold back.
He was so insistent on enrolling his daughter in college that he filled out most of the paperwork himself.
Mr. De Luz, always elegant, here plays, subtly but ardently, the insistent devotion of a man no longer young.
The insistent voices of feminist intellectuals are in there, too, urging her not to be such a soft touch.
The vertical relationship between Lindblad and its customers had been too insistent to encourage the forging of horizontal bonds.
Near the end a sound appears, high and scratchy and insistent, raising the tension as the guitar feeds back.
The spiky first movement opens with tart scales and low-register rumblings, through which an insistent theme breaks through.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was insistent that none of her fellow Democrats would be seen applauding the result.
Charlize was the one who was very much insistent on not cutting a frame, maintaining the tension, keeping that.
The Laughter of the Sphinx is a gathering of silences, its varied forms palpable and insistent throughout the book.
Trump has been insistent that his "founder of ISIS" phrasing is accurate, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Government officials are equally insistent that all manner of criminal investigations will be crippled without access to phone data.
And the president himself, in particular, has been increasingly insistent that he wants his political opponents, and not him, investigated.
It's a good song — melodramatic and insistent, like any good pop hit — but we have yet to see the video.
According to Wharton, Paris officials were more insistent on hosting the games in 2024, whereas Los Angeles was more flexible.
Her transformation began on the show, when Karamo was insistent that she already was a beautiful, strong, black, lesbian woman.
The sensational trial was closely watched on social media, in part because of the insistent tone of Carter's text messages.
Trump was once insistent that he would never get to the point of needing to push out his VA secretary.
But what happens when parents are more anal retentive than Henry, insistent on a child sticking to a strict diet?
But if you're not insistent on planar magnetic awesomeness, you can find great sound from vastly cheaper headphones these days.
If Malcolm is ambivalent about their liaison, Anna is appalled and insistent that this enigmatic intruder should go away immediately.
During season 1, UnReal focused an insistent lens on working womanhood, female friendship, as well as mental illness and anxiety.
He was insistent that process of hand-building cars isn't at odds with Aston Martin's investment in high-tech processes.
" He also says if Laura is insistent on sending the kids to school she better start "selling that p**sy.
Her lines are blotchy, scratchy, insistent, dense, clustered, curling, straight, skipping, winding, and repetitive, like a rain of black thorns.
In advance publicity for the film, the director and screenwriter have been frustratingly insistent that the film takes no sides.
After three and a half minutes of whirling club fare, "Come We Go" morphs into something more insular and insistent.
To keep a lid on costs, many are becoming more insistent that travel is booked through firms' own travel systems.
Trump is remarkable for the extent to which he has avoided taking responsibility for anything, insistent on his own powerlessness.
Given the "false claims previously made by" White, Carrey was insistent on hammering out a "strong and unambiguous" confidentiality agreement.
For anyone insistent on living their most colorful life, Mucciolo's rainbow-hued high-definition aesthetic is an inspiration to all.
It was harder to comprehend the insistent cheering for Puig, who has been an unreliable playmaker for some time now.
We need British voices — insistent, contrary and maddening — to disturb decades of self-satisfied dust that has settled over Brussels.
Peterson is very insistent that each individual decision moves the entire world closer to either heaven or a bottomless hell.
He hated the feeble, insistent, bad metaphor that constrains and distorts our understandings of ourselves, nature and all other possibilities.
But when it became the more insistent push of a fetus, the teenager could not ignore the sensation any longer.
Only the angels of the title seem to be lacking in this insistent energy, and there's a reason for that.
"Small things count," read a headline in the tiny, insistent pamphlet published by the National War Garden Commission in 1919.
In a joint interview, they were insistent that T. rex is far more than just a pretty, horrifyingly scary face.
To the women in Will Arbery's sly, elusive, off-kilter comedy "Plano," the male presence is a loud, insistent thing.
" A small, insistent and finally irresistible voice in my head just kept saying: "Nope, Thomas Cromwell definitely didn't say that.
The two have spoken repeatedly about the Senate contest, but Hickenlooper has been insistent on keeping his presidential campaign alive.
Regrouped for an album due in August, Rainer Maria has released "Lower Worlds," a steadier but no less insistent song.
PARIS — On the phone, the man who said he was Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defense minister, sounded insistent.
Still, she knows people sometimes don't ask for her opinion because she can be what might charitably be called insistent.
The insistent refrain "new all-time record" has been played so often recently that it sounds like a broken record.
A note of ugliness amid ballet's insistent beauty, a little nightmare now and then: it's always a good sign. ♦
He also ruled out conceding to Russia's previously insistent demand that Ukraine become a federation instead of a unitary state.
We encounter both great diversity and insistent similarity, because most of them are struggling with similar erotic and financial dilemmas.
But — whether by dint of plague, unsympathetic bishop, flood or vanity's insistent whisper — the world just keeps happening to them.
When "The Conners" was ordered, ABC was insistent that Barr would have no creative or financial involvement with the show.
Are they insistent that they need to go to the gym every morning for the sake of their mental health?
For that, we turn to some of its most insistent backers, moderates from Trump states facing re-election this fall.
I don't believe they are based on evidence and she was really insistent that she needed me ... A personality test?
She's insistent that these policies can—and must—go into effect now, because Delaware families simply can't wait any longer.
Sometimes by being angrier and more insistent you get what you want, and being cooperative and mild-mannered you get ignored.
" Now, Calafiore is insistent that he is deeply in love with Sorbello, and that this was just a "tough fucking situation.
"But they were insistent," he said, calling back and demanding details of when fuels would be pumped and through which pipelines.
Presidents have in the past ridden a cable car to the top, but Trump was apparently insistent on taking his helicopter.
But where governments have been confused and half-hearted about the worth of girls, popular culture has been loud and insistent.
Passengers say they heard the dog barking but assumed the bin was ventilated because the flight attendant had been so insistent.
That includes Mr. Lloyd Webber, whose insistent signature melodiousness paradoxically feels less insidious when it's given a pumped-up decibel count.
Both candidates are also insistent that they are best equipped to take on Republican front-runner Donald Trump -- another New Yorker.
Meanwhile, political clamoring grows: Turkey, Iranian-backed militias, the Iraqi government -- all insistent that their red lines must not be crossed.
We chant a litany, wearing red for our fierce rage and life blood, for collective strategy, rhythm, and insistent Black joy.
"Luca thinks 'Cofant Croissant' is like, the coolest name," she explained, adding that he has become pretty insistent on the choice.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said he suspected Trump would be "insistent on the funding" for the border wall.
President Donald Trump has been insistent that one of his top domestic priorities is repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
Skipper was also insistent that the network has no plans to offer a streaming app that's unbundled from a cable subscription.
There's a chilly formality to the locked-down cameras, the muted lighting, the quiet, insistent score, and the blunt, confrontational conversations.
The Trump campaign is insistent that the Chinese government is giving its country's exporters an unfair leg up against American competitors.
Washington is insistent on maximizing economic sanctions and keeping up pressure on the North to stop its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
He has remained insistent on some form of wall funding ever since — though he has exhibited some flexibility on the terminology.
Gretta Keene, a Brooklyn psychologist, had a friend who was adopting a child and was insistent on never telling the child.
Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) was insistent that the executive branch be granted a stronger role in the execution of monetary policy.
Conjuring images of duct tape and kidnapping, the president offered an insistent call to action about human trafficking at the border.
Lines were written for Stark to say goodbye, but the team said Downey Jr. was insistent he didn't say a word.
After being woken up early by Elton's insistent meowing again and again, the cat's owner, Joaquin Baldwin, decided to take action.
John C. Calhoun, however, earnestly supported slavery in the face of articulate and insistent arguments against it from his fellow congressmen.
The perfume is subtle but insistent, and when it threatens to be too much, you bite into a soft dried tomato.
It's that insistent and playful curiosity that started Giertz making shitty robots, and getting noticed for it, in the first place.
I wish I had been less insistent on doing this crazy, artsy… Like, I had been reading Dante's Inferno a lot.
Jolley is insistent that Ozlo isn't simply useful for users, but is a critical piece of the the AI ecosystem itself.
Puerto Rico politicians are not innocent bystanders, even today Puerto Rico remains insistent on politically expedient spending, not strategically wise spending.
Mais les islamistes salafistes ou les islamistes sans mandat politique direct insistent plutôt sur le fait qu'Audin était communiste et athée.
Insistent on defending his performance as he seeks a second term, he has delivered over-optimistic assessments disproven by subsequent developments.
And it very likely wouldn't exist, she admits, had it not been for the gentle and insistent prodding from her editor.
Among them is an account of Danny Boyle directing "Frankenstein," each day welcoming Hytner's insistent notes while executing none of them.
And for most of the album, U2 sets out to counter the anger, despair and cynicism of 2017 with insistent optimism.
Les personnes au courant des détails de la vente insistent que le prince héritier était bien l'acheteur au moment de l'enchère.
After the attack, some of the most insistent Second Amendment advocates on Capitol Hill took on the role of shooting survivor.
He has just released "Odisea," his insistent, diverse and stylish debut album, but in truth, that's something of an arbitrary milestone.
In the main Allegro section, the tempo was insistent but held in check, giving the music a nervous, almost panicked feel.
Officer Lopera became more insistent, approached Mr. Farmer, and ultimately discharged the Taser a total of seven times, Undersheriff McMahill said.
Her suffering could have been tiresome, in the manner of any insistent virtue, yet here it seemed to make her grander.
The music turns kinetic and insistent, with interplay between the cello bongos and congas, deceptively charming music that is actually anxious.
But back then, Facebook was insistent on running ads after its videos, and advertisers weren't excited about that format at all.
DeCarava's influence was also apparent in Draper's quiet yet insistent challenge to the pervasive dehumanization of African Americans in visual representation.
The screen pulsates with the hot energies of modern life and its dull repetitions, animating the screen with an insistent flicker.
If a child is insistent, consistent, and persistent on that message or related messages, we want to pay attention to it.
He had been insistent in his desire to ask her out after they met as students at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
He draws particular inspiration from works collected in the manuscript that give bits of epigrammatic wisdom between insistent returns to a refrain.
Police officials tell PEOPLE the boy did not want the girl arrested for the alleged pinching but that his mother was insistent.
However, what we're left with instead is an ending so insistent of its own humanism that it reveals its total lack thereof.
For Paradise and the rest of the nation, the blaze was a wake-up call to the new, insistent danger of wildfires.
Compared to its predecessor, it's also slightly less insistent that the real problem with government child-murder policies is insufficiently egalitarian murdering.
The wife is insistent that ManBearPig is a big problem, that it's going to keep ravaging the countryside if something isn't done.
"Luca thinks 'Cofant Croissant' is like, the coolest name," she explained, adding that her son has become pretty insistent on the choice.
When the passengers return to their normal lives, they suddenly experience "callings" — voices in their heads that provide grave and insistent instructions.
The tracklist is diverse, checking off Frank Ocean, Leonard Cohen, James Blake, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, all backed by a steady, insistent groove.
Throughout the renovation, Murphy was insistent on being as sustainable as possible and keeping elements from the old house when she could.
The shuffling rhythms and wah guitars mingle with wailing brass, driving forward insistent, riffing vocal melodies, never quite letting the listener settle.
Cash skeptics are insistent that in-kind grants of things like food or cattle are preferable in certain cases to granting cash.
That is why the president and his adult children were so insistent that he wasn't actually being booed at Madison Square Garden.
But when you marinate the chicken in lemon, garlic and the wonderful herb mixture za'atar, I gravitate instead toward pungent, insistent whites.
TikTok head Alex Zhu is insistent that the Chinese video-sharing app is not bound by the whims of the Chinese government.
Her testimony isn't yet online, but the FBI has been insistent for months that law enforcement needs ways to access encrypted data.
Earlier in the day, my editor Zing is insistent I find a way to snort the cacao when no-one is looking.
Instead, the sponsors tried to strike a balance, being insistent on issues like health and education but easing off in other areas.
Stripped of arrangements that have been familiar for decades, Dylan's voice comes through as more insistent, while the lyrics land more sharply.
They're insistent that she do right by the Spellman family name and give herself, body and soul, to the Church of Night.
For many nights, every time I slept in that room, there was an insistent knocking on the door, starting at 3 a.m.
The Impromptu is structured like a Baroque passacaglia, with an insistent chorale-like theme put through myriad tinkling, brash and eerie variations.
Democrats were insistent that he had a responsibility to testify, though they agreed to combine questioning from two panels on one day.
There is a growing consensus that, for adolescents whose gender identities are insistent, persistent, and consistent, gender transition is usually quite successful.
Speaking to the writer Katie Way, Grace describes halfhearted — at least on her part — oral sex and Ansari's insistent push for intercourse.
And to protect us from our own irrational brains, that send us repeated, insistent signals to make big decisions during a crisis.
"Joanne," from 2016, made an insistent show of authenticity: a painful story from her family's past, acoustic guitars, a wide-brimmed hat.
But Democrats, as well as some moderate and conservative Republicans, are insistent that lawmakers take action by the end of the year.
Subjectively, most of us went through what Erica is experiencing when we were teenagers, terrified by the insistent promptings of our libidos.
Khalid sings with fragile care about loving someone who won't love back while behind him, hymnal vocals interweave with insistent, crackling percussion.
The beat is slow but the arrangement builds nervous energy with quick percussion, insistent strings and backing voices appearing from all directions.
WowWee had originally planned on selling the Fingerling for $20, but the giant retailer was insistent: About $15 was the magic number.
But Democrats are going to be insistent on maintaining those requirements, which might not leave many options except for streamlining the process.
It starts out with nonsensical shrieks and trills and chicken sounds on a loop, then slides into an irresistible, insistent pop beat.
While he remains insistent on the values of liberal, open societies, Obama has grown more realistic about the speed and scope of change.
As Oprah spoke, her words had a palpable impact on the audience, whose insistent applause made it evident she had struck a chord.
Chief Executive Lam has repeatedly condemned the violence as she remained insistent that protesters' demands could not be considered while the unrest continues.
Sounding very much like a Democrat, Trump has been pretty insistent throughout that he has no intention of going after these giant programs.
They were able to provide a lot for me growing up, but they were insistent on teaching me to be responsible with money.
Carter Burwell's insistent score crashes down on the film as heavily as the 30-foot waves crash onto Bernie's pathetically dinky rescue ship.
He drives her around, pays for her hotel room damages, and is very insistent that Jesse is more than just a pretty face.
But his speech to the party school in Beijing last December, published in a party magazine, Qiushi, on May 1st, was unusually insistent.
The irony is that even though this new group in town is insistent on repealing ObamaCare, they cannot repeal the benefits it bestowed.
He was so insistent that he be obeyed that a 13-year-old, troublesome Donald was forced to enroll at a military academy.
Thanks to insistent rumors that George is laser-focused on eventually playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, the Pacers have very little leverage.
They remain insistent that the only deal on the table is one that exchanges beefed-up border security for protections for DACA recipients.
A hush fell over the room, except for an insistent low rumble that you could hear above the hum of the air-conditioner.
But George R.R. Martin has always been insistent that this is not a nihilistic story, that change is possible even if it's difficult.
However, the airline was insistent that that the overhaul of the entire fleet will still finish on schedule, by the end of 2020.
But it was his insistent thread that recalled theories of a clash of civilizations that will be the primary takeaway from this speech.
Hypnotic blue strobes pulse on the hazy dance floor, where a strict no-cellphone policy is enforced by the polite but insistent staff.
His "I Too" is a quiet yet insistent poem depicting a black man employed by a white one and his struggle with invisibility.
They suggest that her insistent anonymity — fake name, concealed life — was part of a careerlong strategy to present herself as a Conceptual work.
Bryan is a patient decorator with guitar, never overpowering an arrangement, and as a rhythm section, Felber and Sonefeld are insistent but amiable.
He became increasingly insistent that he was my ride, and that he could give me a ride to wherever I want to go.
At some point the yearning is answered, at first chthonically, by the bass drum, later by the insistent jump of the high-hat.
However, Trump has held firm and has been insistent that the bill must be called — one more time — The Cut Cut Cut Act.
The Democrats, she argues, would have done better if they hadn't been so insistent that Brett M. Kavanaugh was guilty of sexual assault.
"Now we need to strengthen…" I'm starting to realize why Inge was so insistent I call it a workout and not a treatment.
A day later, the expressed need for pragmatism and deal making gave way to the reality: Trump is insistent on a border wall.
Bard had been so insistent that the child be tested that the mother was determined to push for it if she had to.
In its insistent focus on a woman whose identity isn't solely determined by her relationships with men, "Girlfriends" isn't just thrilling — it's radical.
Jok Prince, as the eatery is known, has since traded its spot in the alley for walls, a roof and insistent fluorescent lights.
But the flavors don't hide anymore; they have an insistent presence, and their dynamics are beautifully modulated from one dish to the next.
A prevailing mood of bucolic lyricism is constantly challenged by slithering atonality and insistent, marchlike rhythms, only to fade off into mechanistic irrelevance.
"Russian authorities, despite repeated, high-level and insistent demands, did not participate enough in the investigation," Germany's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The composer, Annette Focks, supplies an array of insistent Spielbergian music cues, and the film hinges on a pair of big-speech scenes.
Dove became a model after losing a bet to a friend who was insistent that Dove should join her in the modeling world.
There's the television WWE, which consistently sucks and, outside maybe two or three nights a year, is insistent on nothing of import happening.
She has been especially insistent on finding a woman with business experience for the post, according to the people familiar with the process.
Gunn has also been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, which might further explain why conservatives were so insistent on seeing him punished.
In contrast, the labor that goes into Cardi's beauty and Cardi's music is neither glamorous nor effaced nor insistent on its own purity.
It appeared on the bus, as Earn tried to brush off an insistent man who literally disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Bella has been dating her former Dancing With the Stars pro Artem Chigvintsev, however, she has been insistent that the pair are not official.
In Japan, in contrast, most cases involve a big portion of a class inflicting insistent psychological (and occasionally physical) torment on a single victim.
In the theater, you don't have that option — it's going on with or without you, which makes everything more intense and insistent and demanding.
The slow movement unfolded at a steady, almost insistent clip with no trace of sentimentality, yet nice bloom and lyricism in the melodic lines.
In that case, we'd been on enough dates that I was less insistent than I would have been on a second or third date.
Of course there's an establishment, but it's much more diffuse, much less lavishly funded, much less insistent on orthodoxy and forgiving of loyal incompetence.
If school qualifications were made more rigorous, recruiters would be more likely to trust them as signals of ability, and less insistent on degrees.
Korean beatboxers Hiss and Bigman nail the song's insistent beat, singing the lyrics in flawless harmony, before mixing up the song's style multiple times.
But I find so much of the work's power to inhere in its insistent concreteness, not only of historical reference but also site-specificity.
He becomes so insistent, the Weissman men are eventually dragged into a "secure room" to discuss why Noah can never, ever work at Bell.
But Germany remains insistent that member states should take primary responsibility for their own economic problems, a principle whose prime exponent has been Schaeuble.
Simsion's unlikely hero, Don Tillman, reminded me of the comic charms of two other protagonists whose insistent voices slip easily into the reader's consciousness.
But what The Power is most insistent on is the idea that it is impossible to fully escape the systems in which we live.
In the old days, people believed food spoiled easier when the dog days set in and that the flies were more numerous and insistent.
Work, in particular, insistent and inflexible, is deeply bound up with how close to the edge you happen to be at any particular time.
"Come On" (1961) It didn't even make the lowest rung of the top 100, but "Come On" featured some of Chuck's most insistent singing.
And when he has children of his own, he will finally understand I wasn't insistent that he checks in because I didn't trust him.
" In Austen's many references to soldiers, Kelly sees "images of a rebellious populace, of government repression, and, more distant but insistent nevertheless … of mutiny.
Why was he so insistent on meeting with Putin alone, without any of his senior national security advisers present — which is unprecedented and senseless?
Molly is insistent that if Issa is to truly have a fresh start, she needs to stop lugging around these mementos from the past.
Even following the raid of Cohen's home, hotel and office in the spring, Trump was insistent that his lawyer would never turn on him.
Mornings came early, heralded first by the neighboring church's bells at 6 and then by the insistent thwack of the pressoirs, or grape presses.
But Trump allies are insistent that the president's feel for the cultural mores of blue-collar America remains a potent and underrated political weapon.
One clear path might be for national organizations of police chiefs or police departments to launch a loud, raucous, insistent campaign against assault rifles.
From a registered Republican to a progressive insistent that she is "actively working to dismantle" capitalism and to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Collage, pastiche, and parody are all tools of appropriation, which I see as a way to make the authorial voice—my voice—less insistent.
Amusingly, the main choice of weapons isn't swords but drums that opponents beat — with insistent, galloping fingers — to create a powerful, mystical sonic force.
I was insistent that if they showed the malfeasance that I and other reporters were already finding in droves, that Kalanick had to go.
In "The Post," Meryl Streep's Katharine Graham muscles through a scrum of insistent and often patronizing men to claim her role as the decider.
Mr. Trump, unusually, has decided to go public with his grievances, and Mr. Powell has responded with public displays of grim-faced, insistent indifference.
Artists are not economists, after all, and there is a value to her insistent gaze on the most unrefined forms of wealth and consumerism.
WASHINGTON — The target was a New York City titan — plain-spoken but Teflon, irresistible to the tabloids and insistent upon loyalty from his associates.
This past summer, as Facebook's troubles mounted, Mr. Schumer confronted Mr. Warner, who by then had emerged as Facebook's most insistent inquisitor in Congress.
Several restaurants station employees out front, armed with menus and an insistent smile, trying to cajole passers-by to stop in for a meal.
The music is low-fidelity and insistent, throbbing with distorted bass, like trap music reduced over a hot fire to its rawest component parts.
It's more like a sudden, insistent fit of wistfulness, a yearning to become a different version of herself after almost seven years with him.
Lenin, always insistent, had convinced his reluctant comrades in early 406 that they had no choice but to accept an "obscene" peace with Germany.
Duolingo is a popular language-learning app, widely known for its simple lessons, signature owl mascot, and insistent, sometimes vaguely harrowing notifications and reminders.
He was insistent that the only way to read the comic would be either through the books or whatever newspaper clippings fans had preserved.
The back-to-smoke trend flies in the face of the e-cig industry's most insistent PR pitch: Vaping helps people quit smoking cigarettes.
Over the course of several days, Dulos was insistent, "pushy" and angry that the seats had not been changed out, the employee told police.
"The president may have asked McGahn to correct the record, but McGahn was insistent that it happened the way he remembered," the notes said.
Emily's unhappiness starts to seem too idiosyncratic to support a larger, technological thesis just as Ms. Stanton's signposting of that thesis becomes more insistent.
Crunchy guitar slices out a truncated phrase in conversation with an insistent snare drum, and flutes and trumpets drape a humid cloud cover overhead.
The assault started with insistent words, but soon he lurched at me, grabbing the back of my head and pulling me toward his mouth.
As I learned, that's necessary in an arena where the vastness of space and its insistent echo has an effect of slowing everything down.
What made me think of that quote by Sartre, or whomever, was the music at the restaurant, which had a fast, insistent, mechanical beat.
And during her quarter-century in the Senate, almost no lawmaker of any age has been a more insistent crusader for restrictions on firearms.
Listen: "Jerrod," an invitation to a timid lover from Solange's new album, "When I Get Home," has an insistent, syncopated pulse, writes Jon Pareles.
But providers were insistent that more could be done to make this easier, particularly with the use of newer technologies like online video chat.
In the '60s, she was compared to a spacecraft; the '70s were insistent on letting us know that she was a woman — and political symbol.
President Donald Trump and many of his political allies were insistent that fraudulent ballots plagued the 22012 election, ultimately costing the president the popular vote.
President Donald Trump and many of his political allies were insistent that fraudulent ballots plagued the 2016 election, ultimately costing the president the popular vote.
I was alive, so alive, especially when I felt your arms encircling me from behind, and your sex — hard and insistent — pressing at my back.
When the lights in the theater went back on, I was an altered person, my ears still ringing from the movie's jarring and insistent soundtrack.
His tongue painted insistent swirls on my clitoris until I was gripping the arms of the chair and moving my body up to meet him.
It set the tone for a long list of novels that explored the dynamics of family and personal relationships, often shaped by insistent social problems.
But the people behind Pocket Casts are insistent they chose this path not because of what the buyers paid, but because of who they are.
So basically, as you may have read the speech by President Xi in Davos, that we should be insistent on free trade and maintain globalization.
Along with Eric Schmidt, who two years later became Google's CEO, Larry and Sergey would be tenacious, insistent, even confrontational in their use of OKRs.
But none of those concerns allows the Justice Department to avoid complying with oversight requests by an insistent congressional committee investigating possible corruption and malfeasance.
And yes, just like his trusty green concealer, Van Ness is insistent that the manicure stands for more than just a few swipes of paint.
" Ms. Regan confirmed that account, saying, "She wanted the rape story in the book, and she was insistent and angry that we wouldn't include it.
But Trump was insistent on following a tactic he frequently used in business — rattling cages with lawyers' letters that resulted in no actual legal action.
"When we had the guys come to see us from the US, they were very insistent they weren't working for the same person," Farrier said.
Insistent that Texas would get the funding it needed for recovery, Trump added that he thought it would come from outside the larger budget package.
"What is alarming however is the insistent moves manifested within the U.S. to go back to the old, far from its leader's intention," he said.
Whenever Jackson was told that he was in the wrong or his planetary ego was even gently bruised, he grew more insistent in his beliefs.
Yet despite my father's insistent confidence — "I have zero regrets," he often tells me — I'll never know definitively whether my parents made the right decision.
Bayh was dismissive at first, insistent he was done with public life, but Monday's announcement will mark a significant victory for Senate Democratic recruiters. Rep.
Under former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Ankara was insistent on Assad's departure as the only way of stabilising Syria, setting it at odds with Moscow.
The over-all effect is a little like reading the e-mails sent by "Jake": Anna, the narrator, feels subordinate to Mallory's struttingly insistent voice.
The message of the book is simple, insistent and powerful: The West is not confronting a threat of "populism," as so many contemporary analysts claim.
The other equally insistent Hindutva argument is that the Hindus were victimized by the Muslims and were slaves for the thousand years of Muslim rule.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has so far been insistent that his country is going ahead with its planned purchase of the Russian system.
They're very insistent on not calling themselves a media company, when I think they are a media company, or they're a kind of media company.
Walk along 34th Street on a Sunday evening and you may catch a hint of the dueling trumpets and insistent rhythms swirling in the air.
The pine fragrance drifts through the gallery, along with the choral track, insistent and incantatory, of a video installation in a small walk-in room.
The newest writings remind us that King's insistent "quest for radical black citizenship" made him far from comforting to large segments of the American population.
The newest writings remind us that King's insistent "quest for radical black citizenship" made him far from comforting to large segments of the American population.
They cite examples of his attacking the intelligence and demeanor of whites, and his insistent and at times panicky assertions of his own great intelligence.
I called Max Cobb, the president of U.S. Biathlon and an insistent reformer, and asked about the question of appropriate penalties for athletes like Gatlin.
Ripert was equally insistent, however, that Jean-Georges remained one of the best restaurants in the world, despite his colleague's ever-expanding portfolio of commitments.
But it is very unlikely that they heard anything remotely similar to what Gingrich did in the president's insistent invocation of the idea of sovereignty.
Instead, there's a viscous low pulse that both creeps downward and ripples upward with increasingly insistent electronic arpeggios, allowing no exit from centuries-old tensions.
In the studio, he experimented with tap, mapping with his feet all the subtle details he could hear between the insistent beats of Deacon's music.
Help is generally only sought when the movement or vocalization becomes so insistent and frequent it impairs daily functioning or is a turnoff in relationships.
I had to drive about an hour away to get to the closest store, and they were insistent on making sure it fit me correctly.
One fight scene pitting Lively against the wiry, insistent Richard Brake is so severely brutal it feels like Soderbergh's "Haywire" remade by Lars von Trier.
She does so by extending the staged efforts of photo artists like Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas but with slightly smaller, more insistent color images.
Despite an insistent voice in my head telling me to look away, I continued to observe, bending my head farther down for a closer view.
The country has cut loose from its European ties; nobody is sure where it's drifting, although May's coddling of President Donald Trump has been insistent.
Yet Weld, who ran on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2016, is insistent he will continue his campaign regardless of the high chances of failure.
The critics who endure — Jarrell, Sontag, Berger, Barthes — are shameless proselytizers for their enthusiasms, as insistent as Jehovah's Witnesses pressing upon you the good news.
States like California and New York have acted on their own to crack down on surprise bills, but Congress looks insistent on taking action nationwide.
The Alabama election has demonstrated once again that resisters aren't just angry; they are motivated and insistent that the past will not defeat the future.
Facebook certainly isn't the only place you can see NFL highlights — the league has been insistent about divvying up rights and clips across multiple platforms.
But Noah is still grateful for and insistent on exercising his right to find a way to laugh about the more ridiculous things Trump does.
States like California and New York are acting on their own to crack down on surprise bills, but Congress looks insistent on taking action nationwide.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An insistent physicality courses throughout Tenses, the 2015–16 artists in residence exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Still, Benhelima's continued and insistent use of Polaroid film — he bought large quantities of it when he realized it was being phased out — is apt.
But of all the character flaws that have damaged Trump's candidacy in the final stretch of the campaign, his insistent lying hasn't hurt him much.
Macron said last week he believed he had persuaded Trump to keep U.S. troops in Syria, though Trump has been insistent on bringing them home.
They purr in a manner that embeds this insistent, annoying, almost infantlike cry inside of a pleasant purr, to condition their owners to get them food.
Susann's representation of drugs was unrepentant, insistent, and determined to demonstrate the ubiquity of drug taking for women at the time—from movie stars to housewives.
So within his own party he is not that popular and there's also the problem that Fillon has been quite insistent that he won't stand down.
But Biden has been insistent on defending what he believes were good portions of the bill that led to a drop in crime across the country.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, in Brussels for talks with his EU peers, said Warsaw was insistent on Saryusz-Wolski, a center-right European Parliament member.
Democrats are insistent that restriction be removed and Republican leaders have acknowledged they must change the language to get enough Democratic support to pass the bill.
Development would be nearly impossible in such a desolate location, but the crude infrastructure also reflects a defiant refusal to settle, insistent aspirations to a homecoming.
If McConnell really is insistent on having 50 votes locked in before bringing Cassidy-Graham to the Senate floor, Paul is making that task more difficult.
We've all been let down on this Flat-Earth-rocket stuff before, but Hughes seems pretty insistent that this time there will actually be a launch.
The episode, called "It's Great That Garry's Shandling's Still Alive," concludes with Shandling talking about a insistent medical worker who's glad that he hadn't passed away.
Meanwhile, British-and Swiss-based trading houses and refineries have received insistent calls from U.S. State Department officials warning about trading oil products with sanctioned countries.
In the past five years, under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has become more humble -- it's not so insistent that everyone uses Windows like it once was.
He was insistent that if Singapore's society was not uniformly clean and luscious with green, it would only be the wealthy which could enjoy gracious surroundings.
We don't have to imagine how this insistent gloom could mislead us on the Oscars specifically, because a widely read article is already showing the way.
Now that he's president, Donald Trump is insistent that criticizing America or him — especially if you're a Democratic congresswoman of color — is somehow beyond the pale.
She's disoriented and unkempt, but is insistent that Doug Stamper is the same man who used a fake name and hung around her girlfriend Rachel Posner.
When my mother-in-law died, a few years after my own mother had passed away, many women from my community were insistent I take over.
We can do so because that runs counter to months of insistent denial that there was any connection between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
It is still unclear what the patriotic celebration will look like Tuesday afternoon, even to White House officials, but Trump was insistent on holding an event.
"Shit," I breathed, "Sean, God—" The rhythm was incessant, insistent, and I was pulling so hard at the tie on my wrists I knew I'd bruise.
Artists in all forms of media need to be even bolder in their statements and more assertive and insistent on making sure their voices are heard.
From the stories about the patriarchs, to the biblical prophets, and Jesus himself, the Bible is insistent that foreigners, strangers, and travelers deserve hospitality and care.
The two most dominant players were now Serbians — Tijana Boskovic, with her deadly left-handed spikes, and Brankica Mihajlovic, with her insistent blocks of American returns.
You cannot convey the pure concussive terror of a panic attack in words either, the sense that all your bones are thrumming a bad, insistent chord.
Those close to him said he was insistent upon fulfilling his promises, despite urging from some members of his own administration to remain in the agreement.
Just consider the insistent, glitchy synth beep—that buh nuh nuh, buh nuh nuh sound—here playing against the horror soundtrack synthesized strings in the background.
"I have no knowledge of Jamie with Katie at all," Jordan told Entertainment Tonight after confirming insistent rumors of the actors' relationship during a podcast interview.
"Enmeshed" is almost atonally placid, briefly broken up by an insistent rhythm at the front of the mix, before it falls into 20 seconds of silence.
It is plated with a reduction sauce, as classical and French as it gets but with an insistent vein of acidity that somehow makes it modern.
I laughed it off, thinking it was a joke, but he became insistent, telling me he's a male escort—which he had not told me previously.
How does a doctor make sure a child is insistent, persistent, and consistent, what kind of steps are taken after that, and are these steps reversible?
These wizards with brooms and sliding granite rocks have spent nearly a year making public appearances, and letting insistent fans touch, kiss and wear their medals.
It is the perverse, insistent, matter-of-factness of male sexual predation and assault — of men's power over women — that haunts the revelations about Mr. Weinstein.
It shares a pervasive and insistent atmosphere of otherness, and — this comes through only gradually — a spirit of level-eyed fortitude in the face of damage.
It was all very wearable, and certainly commercially viable, but I didn't see anything that was as radical or insistent as the flashing words above it.
On Wednesday, one man, insistent on reaching the soldiers, stopped in the distance and raised his gown to show that he was not strapped with explosives.
More damaging were insistent approaches to her father, Thomas Markle, a retired Hollywood lighting director who declared bankruptcy years ago and now lives alone in Mexico.
But Biden was also insistent that the focus should remain on Trump improperly inviting foreign interference in a US election -- not on Biden and his son.
In the wake of a shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, Florida, he was insistent that he wanted to see the age change.
The Trump administration has been insistent that is the President's job to enact US foreign policy and that any attempt to limit his authority is inappropriate.
When the question is posed, she offers a perfunctory "This" — meaning Win — "is my job," which, it is worth pointing out, is hardly an insistent denial.
Those composers include some from Luther's time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness.
The filmmaker Tyler Perry said on Facebook that he had spoken to Mr. Smollett, who was insistent that he is telling the truth about the attack.
There is irresolvable tension between the painting's many different focal points and its surface covered (or threaded) by insistent, tactile lines, which complicates the viewer's experience.
The long and insistent coupling of compensation for slaveowners with emancipation is useful for consideration in current debates about reparations for the descendants of the enslaved.
For just about the entirety of his two-decade career, his public persona has been dedicated to building one of sports' most insistent myths of resolve.
McConnell and Grassley are insistent that Obama not pick a nominee and leave the decision to his successor, who takes office next January after the Nov.
If you are a masochist, you can work on your return while waiting at the dentist or the D.M.V. The downside to TurboTax is its insistent selling.
Mark Meadows of North Carolina, are insistent on the timeline, threatening to vote against any replacement if it is not guaranteed before the midterm elections in 2018.
Democrats are insistent they do not want to rush through the process, even as the President hopes to ratify the agreement before Congress leaves for August recess.
Catherine Zeta-Jones reveals her father-in-law, 101-year-old actor Kirk Douglas was insistent on being at son Michael Douglas' Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
In fact, Amy is insistent that she doesn't offer massage either, but "body work," a distinction that may be unimportant to customers, but is essential to her.
Absent four players who had tears in their anterior cruciate ligaments, Notre Dame remained insistent and aspirational with deft shooting, voracious offensive rebounding and exquisite interior passing.
The screenwriters, accordingly, are more insistent than ever that "we are all worth fighting for" and that we must all try to understand the perspectives of others.
Rather, it's a political move by an administration that is insistent on a budget that secures billions of dollars to extend walls along the nation's southern border.
That purr in your voice will be even breathier and insistent when you ask if [they] want you to spread wider, or clamp down like a vise.
For its part, the SNP has been insistent that the removal of nukes, or even independence, would not entail the mass job losses envisioned by Trident's proponents.
The black people shaping the culture have grown not just comfortable in their blackness but also defiant in its depiction, insistent in its inextricability from their art.
With patient but insistent diplomacy, we can build a coalition of likeminded countries (South Korea, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) to reverse this tide.
He was very insistent and, finally, he threatened me and told me that, if I didn't go out on my terms, I would go out on his.
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach ... Although he repeatedly lamented being alone, Trump was insistent that his family remained in Palm Beach without him while he eschewed his vacation.
But Democrats are mired in their own struggle, as they try to identify future stars who can appeal to a base increasingly insistent on a progressive agenda.
In a sphere encrusted with suck-ups, soothers, and self-puffery, Ms. Tanden has emerged as a loyal but insistent straight-talker and acute assessor of Mrs.
With its commitment to experimentation and its insistent re-evaluation of what constitutes a work of art, Dada encouraged the use of unconventional materials and inventive techniques.
I took deep breaths and prepared to be calm, yet insistent, that if this didn't happen immediately, my mental health was going to swan-dive into oblivion.
The question becomes more insistent when Kirili mentions his admiration for the art of the American sculptor David Smith, especially the towering pieces of Smith's Cubi series.
Trump has been insistent on maintaining pressure on the regime through sanctions and joint military exercises and does not want to show any cracks in that pressure.
The New Man, Zeke calls this type — his type — and Tillman's novel is a patient, insistent exploration of what it means to live inside such a mind.
Unlike Dev, who was politely deferential to his own harassed co-worker, Tig is insistent on holding the men in her office accountable, regardless of Kate's feelings.
You know about N.A.B.J., N.A.H.J. and A.A.J.A. If you're really so insistent about developing and grooming some black people, why aren't you going to H.B.C.U.s to recruit?
Washing the screen in carmine and ink, he paints a brittle, self-consciously arty veneer that, matched with Flying Lotus's dreamily insistent score, creates disorienting sensory overload.
We are not watching it on TV. What hurts Years and Years in the end is that it's too insistent that you keep watching, no matter what.
Ms. Klobuchar is insistent that it take steps to either mandate or incentivize postelection audits and include additional money for states to buy new software and hardware.
Ms. Warren has surpassed Senator Bernie Sanders as tech's most insistent critic (he recently embraced breaking up Facebook, and he has hammered Amazon for its low wages).
Most of the vesicles from the runners made a beeline for the animals' livers, the scientists found, directed by biological signals that were not obvious but insistent.
Like one of those humans on an HGTV series who is insistent on an open kitchen, Apocalypse has many desires that totally lack any logic behind them.
All that finery: The effect can be alienating, Mr. Wenders suggested, his voice just audible over the insistent strains of Ave Maria piped over the sound system.
In all the books I cherish, it's finally the words, how they keep coming in an insistent stream, that I love, even more than what they mean.
The problem is so insistent that a whole body of political philosophy—"prioritarianism"—is devoted to the challenge of sorting people with needs from people with wants.
As if afraid of boring anybody, Mr. Knappenberger lays on a percussive synthesizer score so insistent and manipulative that it's like watching the movie with electrodes attached.
Kevin Sr. is insistent that his boy is really only a minor player in what he knows will one day be recounted as his own heroic saga.
Cool without refrigeration, sweet with the taste of earth, nothing slaked the insistent thirst of the tropics better, according to some residents of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.
It was like the insistent thrum of a V-Twin: want, want, want, want ...Except that it was my two-wheelin' heart, a beatin' a seduced rhythm.
That puts Esvelt in an unusual position, because, while he is a compelling advocate for gene-drive technology, he is also its most insistent voice of alarm.
After the film's release and acclaim, she treated her sudden fame with bemusement, happy to be recognized but insistent that she had only been doing her job.
And, the official said, the President was insistent on visiting Pittsburgh because he said he would on Saturday, long before anyone knew about objections from local officials.
As I'm sure you know, there was nobody more insistent on doing global trade deals than the Republican Party as it existed until about six minutes ago.
The message is gentle but insistent: The earth may be going to hell in a handbasket, but there are still ways to undo the damage we've done.
A China that is insistent on its political and economic values would trigger a new world order, Yong Wang, a Peking University professor, said in a commentary.
Throughout the book is an unobtrusive tenderness, a submerged savagery and an elusive but insistent sensuality that one would call homoerotic were the photographer not a woman.
Mr. Johnson can make you forget about those issues as well as the franchise's insistent obligations; it also seems like he had a good time at work.
YouTube recordings from the Royal Festival Hall performance aside, on January 21st Harvey debuted "The Wheel," a bluesy maelstrom of brass, ferociously pounded drums, and insistent handclaps.
He was insistent that Mexico needed to apply its laws to stem illegal immigration, while reiterating that the problem needed to be addressed at the point of origin.
No matter how insistent or authoritative the "officer" may seem, you have a right to ask for his or her badge or ID card ("documento" when in Rome).
The tower is designed to simulate nasty weather of all kinds—slanted downpours, harsh winds, insistent drizzle—so Gore can test the efficacy of the materials it manufactures.
If everyone foregoes the algorithm and the company's revenue takes a hit, we can expect others to be even more insistent on taking control away from the user.
Elle is adamantly against this, but Campbell is insistent, and before she can argue with him the two of them are out the door, poisoned pie in hand.
He was confrontational, combative, piqued by his perceived mistreatment in the press, and insistent that he had the right to keep running his business the way he wanted.
In the insistent we look at 2012 clearly conveyed a dissent in saying you know what, a future president can determine not to uphold the Affordable Care Act.
After pushback against specific ads promoting illegal activity, the site has been insistent that it simply hosts third-party content, removing offending ads when brought to its attention.
He is more circumspect about his efforts last year to find more clients in Ukraine, and was insistent Thursday about the nature of his December meeting with Tymoshenko.
It seems that his deadline date of leaving on the 31 of October mattered so much to him, that he was insistent that it had to be observed.
But former House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes has been insistent that these events constituted malfeasance, and Papadopoulos linked them up with his larger Mifsud/Downer conspiracy theory.
Brown was pretty insistent that I took full control of the capture process, which really meant moving the camera around and clicking the capture button on the iPad.
This time, there's no layered guitar or insistent harmony; it's just Baker and a piano, delicately smashing your heart into a thousand pieces with a small, ornate hammer.
As the year went on, however, she was increasingly insistent in her female gender identity, and her parents sought to prepare for a full transition in third grade.
Also relevant and hopeful is the election of Moon Jae-in as the new president of South Korea, and his insistent calls for improved relations with the North.
At the time, those close to him said he was insistent on fulfilling that promise, despite some members of his own family and administration urging him to stay.
But it means that terminating the channels of insistent repeat violators would take, at a minimum, almost a month—and likely far longer than that in most instances.
But today, car companies are dead set on competing with CarPlay and Android Auto, insistent on owning (or at least co-owning) the control elements of the dashboard.
If the left remains insistent in it when the debt limit deadline arrives, this short-term view could have decidedly long-term implications — for liberals and Democrats alike.
He was especially insistent in defending his praise of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, arguing that Mr. Putin had "an 82 percent approval rating" in his country.
Many EU leaders have been insistent on the UK facing the consequences of its decisions -- and this would apply even more so in the event of no deal.
Last October, a leading Democratic donor named Shefali Razdan Duggal emailed a sweetly worded but insistent list of demands to a staff member at the Democratic National Committee.
I was once in a band with a fine fellow who was insistent that "practice" was what a musician did alone and "rehearsal" is what a band does.
Mr. Keyes told Ms. Brown about one of his advocacy groups "and was insistent that I come over to his apartment" to learn more about it, she said.
Where Chau is modest, Hertzberg, who represents the San Fernando Valley, is voluble and insistent, with a slicked-back mane of hair and a steady borscht-belt patter.
STUBER Kumail Nanjiani plays an Uber driver whose latest fare is a Los Angeles cop (Dave Bautista) insistent that he be driven around while he pursues a killer.
Today we're premiering "Lonely City," which begins at an uneasy clip, summoning an insistent bass that echoes as if it were reverberating through hollow streetscapes and empty buildings.
Bulgarian officials condemned the attack on Ms. Marinova, but they were also insistent that there was nothing to suggest that she had been killed because of her work.
Had his doctors realized that how tenuous was the connection between lowering A1C and heart disease, the biggest threat to these patients, they might have been less insistent.
But Trump's brazenness and his insistent "assertion of prerogative," the authors write, could teach us something by shining a klieg light on the shadowy corners of executive power.
He introduced Marco Asensio, instructing him to try to hold the ball, to relieve the insistent pressure on Real's defense, and to lead his team on the counterattack.
Throughout their marriage, Cuccurullo was insistent that Sisk keep their private life a secret, telling her to not disclose details about their romantic life to the show's experts.
Targeting the illicit sale of fentanyl saves lives, which is why President Trump has been so insistent about demanding that China ban the production and exportation of fentanyl.
Over a kiddie-carnival dancehall beat, she sticks with a stern, hard-edged delivery, keeping insistent, testy tempo while the rest of the song shrieks in the background.
He is the grumpy and certain leftie who has a real point of view about how the world works and is insistent on telling everyone what he thinks.
Bannon was insistent that Bill Clinton's marital indiscretions were promising ground: His conviction stems from the group of young, female Breitbart News reporters whom he's dubbed the Valkyries.
Acton left Facebook as the social media company was insistent on monetizing WhatsApp through ads and by selling businesses tools to engage with users — and eventually track them, too.
One more bit of trivia: Zakarian, who started at SNL in 2005, notes that Baldwin has been the show's most insistent Trump impressionist about the particulars of his costume.
"We're up for any kind of suggestions, but Luca thinks 'Cofant Croissant' is like, the coolest name," Duff said, adding that Luca has become pretty insistent on the choice.
Scored for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/crotales, piano, violin, cello and electronic sounds and conducted here by Ransom Wilson, "The Light Within" unfolds with a somber, insistent propulsion.
Even at the tender age of under 15, it seems boys receive significantly more than girls — and, like their dads at work, are more insistent in asking for more.
Honestly, it's hard to imagine why Tide is being so insistent on the coloring here, but I'll leave you with the same warning as usual: don't eat the pods.
SQUABBLES OVER SANCTIONS Meanwhile, British-and Swiss-based trading houses and refineries have received insistent calls from U.S. State Department officials warning about trading oil products with sanctioned countries.
The offensive has been a long time coming and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Kurdish President Masoud Barzani are insistent that it is an Iraqi-led coalition.
What I don't understand is why The Walking Dead's screenwriters seem so insistent that Dwight's misery is more interesting than, say, any other character arc we could be following.
On "State of the Union" last Sunday, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly told CNN's Dana Bash that Trump would be "insistent on the funding" for the wall. 3.
Meanwhile, Cramer has been insistent on the importance of separating the bull rally from President Trump's influence in Washington, but the market can't seem to undo its Trump ties.
While Italy seeks to clarify his identity using voice recognition software, the British, who took the lead role in hunting him down, are insistent he is a trafficking figure.
Green wished they had tested the code on a smaller wallet first, but Baylina was insistent that they made the right decision in rescuing the large vulnerable wallets first.
The vocal line with its stentorian triads and insistent repetitions would be easy enough to transcribe, but the unhinged sternness of Mr. Eastman's delivery might be hard to replicate.
I have observed hospital staff insistent that certain black patients were "dangerous" requiring four-point restraints, which meant that each of the limbs would be strapped to the bed.
In an early attempt to head off concerns over a shrinking mobile market, T-Mobile and Sprint are insistent that their merger would lead to lower prices for consumers.
In the back of my mind, there was an insistent voice repeating the same idea: eventually, this resistance group would discover I wasn't the Bishop they thought I was.
The pressure for the continued use of chlorpyrifos became particularly insistent in 2017, remarkably not only from lobbyists but also from the USDA and its state agricultural agency counterparts.
But the Giants' defense had been aggressive for most of the game, not often sacking Wentz but regularly unsettling him, an insistent approach the defenders prefer in tough situations.
Mr. Puts's music was captivating from the start, with insistent drumming that took an idea from Leonard Bernstein's music for the movie "On the Waterfront" and ran with it.
"Every inch of sky's got a star / every inch of skin's got a scar / I guess that you've got everything now," Butler sings over acoustic guitars and insistent bass.
"The Blinding Light of Dreams" reflects on the history of racism in the South, racing along on an insistent 13-note piano pattern and dodging dissonant interjections from yMusic.
"One thing that we were very insistent on when we started our brand is that we reference cauliflower in the name," said Ms. Becker, who lives in Los Angeles.
In July, as Facebook's troubles threatened to cost the company billions of dollars in market value, Mr. Schumer confronted Mr. Warner, by then Facebook's most insistent inquisitor in Congress.
On the one hand, her fellow Trump supporters were insistent that it was being blown out of proportion, that the flu was far deadlier, that everyone was being ridiculous.
Ms. Elliott has chosen to find instead in that insistent beat the biological clock, which conveniently echoes in "Tick-Tock," formerly the coital bedroom instrumental of a committed playboy.
Correspondents on his watch have included Donald J. Trump, who defended his insistent questioning of the citizenship of President Barack Obama in 2011 against sharp criticism from Gail Collins.
Mr. Giuliani was at times so insistent that a number of White House officials came to believe he was secretly lobbying for Turkey, one of the former officials said.
"I can assure you directly from conversations with the president, the president is insistent that EPA administer this to make sure that we achieve 15 billion gallons," Censky said.
They arrive dressed, resting on thick yogurt with an insistent beat of garlic and strewed with more ground beef in sunset slashes of long-broken-down tomatoes and onions.
"Silver Cross," written by XCX and Cook, is an old-fashioned pop vow of devotion set to insistent, mutating, multilayered synthesizers and vocal effects, a barrage of digital diversion.
Transitioning is a slow, deliberative process for minors, and only adolescents who are insistent, persistent, and consistent in their gender identity over long periods are recommended for medical intervention.
The officials told the paper that Trump became more insistent about the conspiracy after his private meeting with Putin in July 2017 at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Such editing-suite sleights of hand may displease purists, and so will an insistent score by Philip Glass, whose melodious montage glue has become something of a documentary cliché.
"Rob, and everyone involved, was very insistent that as much as possible we built practical sets that we could very much interact with and be a part of," Blunt explained.
Matt Ortile wrote a lovely reflection on uncertainty and risk, but mostly on what it means to try to gain some benefits from a world insistent on taking from you.
Now Fed officials appear insistent they will stick to their broad goal of continuing to raise rates this year, most likely with four further increases of 25 basis points each.
While negative experiences with therapy can be potentially devastating, everyone I spoke to—even those who had suffered a bad encounter—was insistent that it can be life-changingly positive.
"I was insistent that everybody on our staff make at least $15 an hour, and in fact they're making $17 an hour," Sanders told CNN's Poppy Harlow on "Newsroom" Tuesday.
Before we met, she told me she went on an aimless two-and-a-half hour walk around the city, like a weary traveler insistent on living in the moment.
For people who cosplay—or assume the identity of their favorite fantasy character—hair becomes even more insistent and important; without the right wig, a cosplay outfit can be ruined.
When he freestyled over Nas's "Ether," he was insistent he was cool with Jay-Z, and he seemed to back it up by rapping over Jay's beats over the years.
Meat Wave's ability to weave the two together has produced a timely and insistent narrative, an arc that you can trace through the record to its serene final acoustic moments.
Trachtman is more insistent than Hufbauer that Trump would need the International Trade Commission — a nominally independent federal agency — on his side to slap any tariffs or duties on China.
"You've really messed up everything," Thom Yorke sings in "Ful Stop," one of the album's few up-tempo songs, though it uses its insistent beat for jitters, not pleasurable motion.
"It used to be that people would come in and sometimes be quite insistent" about receiving opioids, said Dr. Wanda Filer, the president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Trump also has been insistent on hitting China with waves of tariffs — $28503 billion so far, with another $22019 billion waiting in the wings — raising worries about a trade war.
But also being a nonprofit, and always being willing, certainly, and increasingly insistent, that people give us money on top of their print subscription cost, if that's what they want.
Schumer has been content to let it be dealt with separately from any spending, while Pelosi has been more insistent that immigration should be part of a larger budget package.
Meanwhile, moderates -- who are just a handful of signatures from forcing a wide-ranging immigration debate next month -- are insistent that DACA recipients can have a path to citizenship eventually.
But the aspect of Hamilton's life he celebrates — the self-making entrepreneurialism of the American dream — cannot be fully understood without including, indeed without highlighting, Hamilton's insistent and emphatic inegalitarianism.
Pence was insistent on meeting Ghani at the presidential palace, calling it "very important" to show that level of respect, despite an upsurge of violence in Kabul in recent months.
His jungle landscapes of the early eighties felt as though they were bent on fighting through the peskily insistent presence of plants and animals to reach a reborn Abstract Expressionism.
While the White House has not been insistent on another vote to repeal and replace ObamaCare this week, it has repeatedly signaled its interest in pushing forward on the issue.
Jim Cramer has been insistent on the importance of separating the bull rally from President Donald Trump's influence in Washington, but the market can't seem to undo its Trump ties.
"He runs over and sweat is dripping from his face," Amanda said, only to discover that the insistent visitor was Nick, who had deviated from their usual secret sibling knock.
It has produced insistent voices for reform, like the Canadian doctor James Carrabre, who is on the board of international biathlon, and Max Cobb, president of the U.S. Biathlon Association.
Here, over slow, groaning production by the Haxan Cloak, he sings high, tender and insistent, then breaks out into ecstatic harmonies à la Jodeci that resolve into church solemnity. J.C.
The books' modesty of scale appears like a rebellion against importance, but they are insistent, even a little pedantic — self-conscious intellectual sallies that bring a dignified brevity to nonfiction.
Trump is insistent on building 250 more miles of physical barriers on the border between the US and Mexico, while Congress has refused to dedicate $5.7 billion to the construction.
The Americans were faster and more insistent to the ball, leaving their French players often disjointed in their passing and unnerved at times by the ferocious play of their opponents.
Episodes about long walks and beaches and mixtapes, telephone calls each night like reliving adolescence, how vibrant and insistent Gess was, even when she was selfish and needy and mad.
A quietly insistent soundscape, composed by Kelly Ryall, evokes the docks where Eddie and the arrivals work, while the lighting designer, Niklas Pajanti, immerses the characters in a permanent chiaroscuro.
But he may be nothing of the kind to women in the abstract or women who were in his path when he was very young, very inebriated and very insistent.
Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina, an insistent Trump critic, lost a Republican primary election last month; Mr. Trump urged voters to reject him on the afternoon of the election.
Not only was he an early and insistent proponent of flying machines, he was also a celebrity-chaser, publicity hound and personal-brand advocate of a nearly 212st-century sort.
Like other presidents before him who felt under siege, Mr. Trump expressed resentment rather than remorse, insistent that he has done nothing wrong and convinced that he has been persecuted.
It was a battle of egos, pitting the giant who had remade the city's infrastructure, Robert Moses, against a governor insistent that the state take over the entire transportation network.
Yet behind Mr. Vernon's electronic palette and sometimes inscrutable lyrics, he's still a melodist, drawing emotional contours in the rise and fall of each phrase and singing with insistent conviction.
Doris Salcedo's Widowed House IV, a delicate construction of a door, some sheer fabric, and bone, is a whisper compared to Richard Serra's insistent steel boxes in the gallery adjacent.
At a separate meeting with her top messengers on impeachment, sources indicated that Pelosi was still insistent on seeing the details of the Senate procedures before sending the articles over.
As the insistent ping of text messages rang out on her phone, she talked about her premier wall, a narrow space between two tall, gracious windows facing a leafy street.
Cornwell's latest work, Quantum, isn't selling particularly well in hardcover—only about 6,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan—but Amazon is insistent that its digital muscle makes print sales irrelevant.
It also said that areas in the South East of England such as Kent, Essex and Suffolk would be viable options for Londoners "insistent on still buying in the area".
But games like those in the Fallout series preach that getting a good rest is the key to a restored, healthy, healed body (and dealing with aggressive, insistent, powerful mutants).
Mr. Ryman extended this tradition with an insistent literal-mindedness, a tinkerer's joy in physical minutiae and an abiding faith in the plain-spoken poetics of his materials and tools.
While he was insistent that it was not him in the image from the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook, he appeared less assertive about other questions regarding his history.
As of now, it does not appear that Mr. Mueller will participate in a hearing before the Republican-controlled Senate, where lawmakers in the majority were less insistent he appear.
Insistent refusal NO MEANS NO My three other New York Times puzzles have also been Thursdays, as is an additional one in the queue, but don't pigeonhole me just yet!
Lady Bird bickers with Marion, whose fears about finances and her daughter's future often tilt her into passive aggression, and who's insistent that a California college is the best option.
On his watch, Chinese officials have become far more insistent on the "one country" part of the formula: it is the party, not Hong Kong's people, that has the final say.
More than most liberals, he is insistent on the role of religion in American public life and American history, and he takes liberals to task for a certain prejudice against religion.
That's because the Fed has been "very insistent" with its plan to raise interest rates this year and next — without saying "a single soothing word" during the recent bout of selling.
Tesla has worked to keep drivers from abusing the system, and a software update last fall made Autopilot more insistent in an effort to keep the driver's attention on the road.
A pair of capacitive-touch buttons on the steering wheel can be used to acknowledge the request, which starts with a visual notification and escalates to an insistent bonging if ignored.
There's pussy bounce-inspired instrumentation with a driving beat, there are insistent commands in the chorus about what you better do, there's Lizzo's bigger-than-life voice, there's a horn section.
This is the most significant action yet in the FCC's battle against spam calls, which have — you're not imagining it — gotten dramatically worse and more insistent over the past few years.
Thanks for the insistent cartoons that play before show-time, the taboo of looking at your phone in the movies is far stronger than that of going to the movies alone.
Trump rarely gives in to the discipline of a teleprompter for very long, and he's still insistent that he's going to win — and that if he doesn't, the election is rigged.
So insistent is it in this assertion that it has outlawed the street trading of ersatz dollars for the real thing: money-changers can face a decade behind bars if convicted.
But Cigna CEO David Cordani was insistent on running the new, combined company, and Cigna grew uncooperative after he was rebuffed, Anthem general counsel Thomas Zielinski said in court, per Bloomberg.
Sanders aides have been consistently insistent that it was their schedule, and not any rumored angst over facing demonstrators or sharing a stage with Moulitsas, that would be keeping him away.
To tell so many different stories and have the canvas to do so is one thing—to remain so fair, so insistent to capture the larger truth, feels like a miracle.
Tanden is insistent that her work on behalf of Clinton has no bearing on her work at CAP, and that she has consistently told CAP staffers that this is the case.
And his rhetoric on this subject was so insistent, so compelling, so flamboyant, so quotable, that he led not only his ideological compatriots, but numerous ordinary Americans, down the garden path.
However, the U.K. government has repeatedly blocked calls for a vote until after the Brexit process is complete with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May insistent that "now is not the time".
Republicans' intentions to focus on the allegations during next month's hearing illustrates that the lawmakers are insistent on pressing the matter and likely won't abandon the push until the November elections.
All of the songs are worthy listens, but "Heaven" is the most impressive: it's insistent, intimate, and obsessed with death, qualities it shares with a lot of the band's best work.
In that sense, she reminds us of another first daughter insistent on her father's feminism: "He's a big reason I am the woman I am today," Ivanka Trump said last summer.
Rae's character works for an outreach program, a gig that forces her to ping back and forth between her clueless white coworkers and the mostly black children insistent on clowning her.
Vivacious flourishes dominated the energetic, denser second section; in the third movement, stark chords rang out with bell-like clarity in the upper register of the piano over insistent lower chords.
Theft of Indigenous land, erasure of Indigenous cultures (which is assimilation by another name), and the gradual but insistent diminishment of Indigenous sovereignty are central pillars in this architecture of oppression.
During the Greek crisis, for example, European leaders did not heed her insistent counsel to reduce Greece's debt burden, as a recent study from the fund's watchdog lays out in detail.
"Despite an insistent voice in my head telling me to look away, I continued to observe, bending my head farther down for a closer view," Mr. Talese wrote in the article.
In his initial interview in January 2017, Papadopoulos was insistent that he had reached out to his foreign contact "The Professor" (amazing!) before he had formally joined the Trump presidential campaign.
For its part, Iran was also more conciliatory but equally insistent that it will continue to ramp up output until it gets back to what it considers its rightful market share.
For a film so insistent on reminding us that average-looking women are people, too, it has a remarkably difficult time with the notion that anyone else around Renee really matters.
Florian's repetition of the letters of "Beowulf" recalls the Old English epic poem's use of alliteration to generate its rhythmic pull, but it also becomes an insistent series of puerile sounds.
And usually, they had a conveniently insistent and straightforward progression of notes and words that, once heard, were tattooed forever on your mind, ready to be retrieved in moments of despair.
That is, an insistent belief in things unseen — things like voters who show up at the polls pretending to be someone else, or noncitizens who try to register and vote illegally.
But Disney has been oddly insistent on avoiding the animated label for the Lion King remake, despite the fact that it's essentially just as visually manufactured as the original 1994 film.
But he was no less insistent that the Russia investigation was a distraction from more pressing global matters — Syria, Ukraine and North Korea — and that time for punishing Russia was over.
Mr. Tavernier also likes to circle back to earlier periods, including ones he's passed over or through, returns that make for surprises and that reflect a profound, insistent sense of history.
But it has become less insistent on his immediate departure since its recent rapprochement with Russia, which backs the Syrian leader, and ahead of peace talks planned in Kazakhstan next week.
Japanese importers value longstanding business ties with Qatar and are unlikely to drop deals altogether, but the utilities are insistent on introducing more buyer-friendly terms, a Japanese trading source said.
Facing cancer and other ailments they trace to radiation exposure, they no longer have to fight alone against a U.S. government insistent that their problems have nothing to do with radiation.
Mr. Abbott, a Republican, has given no hints on whether he would call another session, although he has been particularly insistent that lawmakers give Texans new safeguards against rising property taxes.
Our presence seemed to be a puzzle to the others, and polite but insistent questions were asked of us as the others tried to determine exactly why we had been invited.
Beanpole's seemingly docile acquiescence to her friend is more opaque, her motives emerging over a story that eventually involves Masha's ridiculously insistent suitor (Igor Shirokov) and a soulful doctor (Andrey Bykov).
It also feels like an imposition on someone so insistent on the dignified multiplicity of her own identity, which—for the present moment—must also contain some features that are unknowable.
The Vatican did not say why the pope was so insistent on not having the ring - a simple silver one with a cross - kissed in the long receiving line on Tuesday.
The rest of the field is taken up with horizontal lines whose insistent flatness resists a perspectival reading of the picture plane, much like Jack Tworkov's planar abstractions of the 1970s.
Tore Nielsen, a dream neuroscience researcher and director of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, at the University of Montreal, surmised that at the end of life, such a need becomes more insistent.
An illiterate, underbred book, it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating.
So far, the 93-year-old is insistent he remains Zimbabwe's legitimate leader, and should be allowed should serve out the rest of his term, Reuters reported, citing a senior political source.
It affirms the status of the picture as a discrete object, as insistent as anything else around us, but demanding a different quality of attention and provoking different responses than ordinary things.
Though he's insistent that he doesn't know much about fighting, both his attention to detail and ability to analogize fighting to other forms of movement reflects a refined understanding of the art.
According to our sources ... the point of this publicity push is to get their message across loud and clear -- real gun control is needed now, and they're insistent in bringing about change.
But there's also material for conservative welfare reform defenders, like the Joint Economic Committee's Scott Winship, who have been insistent that the 1996 federal law and contemporaneous state experiments spurred additional employment.
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Eileen (street name: Candy), a prostitute insistent on living without a pimp, who is tired of her job and yearns to break into the burgeoning world of legal pornography.
Many employers say they have raised wages to attract workers, particularly skilled ones, but the insistent complaints about labor shortages have put less pressure on wages in Iowa than expected, economists say.
"If David Falk hadn't been so insistent on us taking Kittles, I think Kobe would have been drafted by the Nets, and John would probably still be the coach," he told Abrams.
We get a scene where Daryl almost slits his throat after some insistent pleading from Tara, who's still pretty torn up about her girlfriend getting an arrow through the eye last season.
According to the Daily Beast's Asawin Suebsaeng, Trump was particularly insistent that his Saturday statement on Charlottesville adhere to a "law and order" theme, because he remembered it fondly from the campaign.
I never learned the particular nature of the unclean spirit that came to possess the wireless internet in my apartment, although we quickly learned that it was both insistent and extremely tacky.
Bran was pretty insistent that Jaime had something important to do when he came to Winterfell, but other than breaking Brienne's heart and going out like roadkill that... didn't seem to manifest?
Pared down to an electronic beat, some hazy synths, an echo of Robert Fripp's iconic guitar line, and Dave Gahan's perfectly restrained vocal theatrics, it sounds delicate and insistent all at once.
The attorney general previously committed to releasing as much of the report as possible under the law, but Democrats and some Republicans have been insistent that the full document be made public.
Yehoshua is one of Israel's pre-­eminent novelists and, with his fellow writers Amos Oz and David Grossman, among the country's most insistent voices pleading for engagement and peace with the Palestinians.
Rick is pretty pissed off about it, but Morgan's pretty insistent that it's a good example of why you shouldn't just kill people, but should instead give them a chance to rehabilitate.
On Friday, the producer born Cédric Bros will be releasing the pulsing and insistent Vibrations, a stunning collection of tremorous tracks that embraces both the genres more austere and more playful sides.
Mr. Kaine mounted an insistent and prodding attack on Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence at the 90-minute debate, frequently interrupting Mr. Pence to demand that he defend Mr. Trump's divisive statements.
Those talks are progressing, those leaving the meeting said, but Republicans are insistent that any deal won't happen until January, despite Democrats' hope to have something by the end of the year.
"While we are in a hectic race to save lives, Planned Parenthood and other powers in the abortion industry remain insistent on taking the lives of innocent unborn children," the letter reads.
One reason Mr. Dowd quit was that, against his advice, Mr. Trump was insistent that he wanted to answer questions under oath from Mr. Mueller, believing that it would help clear him.
His experiences at Rusk supposedly are memorialized in a mid-'230s song, "I Walked With a Zombie," which consists of that one line, sung over and over to a twangy, insistent beat.
The backing vocals, spearheaded by Luther Vandross, build a fantastic rapport with Bowie's, harmonizing at some points and echoing at others, and David Sanborn's sax is catchy and insistent without being distracting.
He was insistent about everything: that people apologize, that he bring hot tea to his evening doorman, that deodorant and body spray are one and the same, that I drink more water.
Reid Mosis, a classmate from the sixth through ninth grades, said Mr. Kelley often griped about his parents and how they were insistent that he undergo drug treatments, apparently for emotional issues.
Now, some of those same pioneers are warning against leaning too heavily on their contributions, and researchers with one foot in adjacent fields are sounding an increasingly insistent alarm about AI's trajectory.
The insistent need for security stifles couples' sexual excitement, Stephen Mitchell argued, but it also builds the relationship on false premises — the deluded idea that your partner is knowable and entirely safe.
"Why is Roy Cooper so insistent on circumventing the electoral process and counting the votes of dead people and felons?" a McCrory campaign spokesman, Ricky Diaz, said in a statement this month.
It declared men's "freedom to pester" as "indispensable to sexual freedom"  "Rape is a crime, but insistent or clumsy flirting is not an offense, nor is gallantry macho aggression," the letter stated.
She belted poppy Arab-tinged melodies answered by insistent keyboard lines, looking both sultry and menacing in a long black wig that she removed with a flourish onstage when the set ended.
Anna is Katherine's closest companion by default and serves as maid and occasional minder; over time, Anna also becomes a moving, horrified witness to Katherine's crimes, emotion that warms the insistent chill.
The clemency grant, one of 209 sentence commutations and 19753 pardons Mr. Obama issued on Tuesday, served as an important counterweight to his administration's insistent pursuit of those who leaked government secrets.
Per BBC News, no one really knows why this woman was so insistent on accompanying her bags, but during the Lunar New Year rush, many people travel with large amounts of cash.
The Trump administration remained insistent on hardline immigration measures on Thursday as the U.S. Senate prepared to vote on various legislative proposals to protect young "dreamer" immigrants and to tighten border security.
I was insistent on trusting my own friends' stories about their encounters with horrible men, but it took me so long to actually accept that he had done what he had done.
Rankine is insistent that the project be located at "a site that has the legitimacy of Gagosian Gallery," a place of institutional acceptance, so as not to be marginalized from the start.
In some sections, like the eclectic opening of the Requiem Aeternam, you also hear echoes of Minimalism, especially the insistent riffs in the harps, which soon provoke the voices into agitated sputtering.
Although milk has previously been shown to be an effective workout recovery drink, the university's insistent praise for Fifth Quarter Fresh specifically sounded the alarms of more than a few bullshit meters.
A continuation of his Rythm Mastr series, the ink drawings include some frames as insistent as Thompson's, with closely cropped characters staring at you, posing questions that resonate far beyond their panels.
I don't remember exactly why I signed up for Donald Trump's campaign emails, but since January, his fundraising notices have been landing in my inbox like notes from an annoyingly insistent pen pal.
Tokarczuk's work is an insistent rebellion against this nationalism of borders; her 2007 book "Flights" in particular, published in English in 2017, reflects the nomadic lives of the people living in the present.
She has an insistent confidence in the process and a buoyant style of talking that makes the whole affair seem urgent — as urgent as life and death — but fun at the same time.
Think about it this way: If all four of the elements were different friends of mine, offering me advice about how to go through life, earth would be the loudest, most insistent one.
In the information, he has the location of the "warehouse" that OIG insistent on trying to find, as well as locations and names of the folks involved – on both sides of the Border.
"Witch," with its sinister, meandering bass, is the most familiar of all, laced with howling violins that were absent in the past, but every bit insistent and sinister as anything on Beach Music.
President Trump's insistent and repeated call for Europe to spend more on its own defense and in contributions to NATO caused the most immediate uproar during the NATO and G-7 summit meetings.
In the First Symphony, Price is still finding her way; the harmonic writing sometimes falls back on nineteenth-century clichés, such as portentous diminished-seventh chords and insistent sequences in the Tchaikovsky manner.
These images spoke to Seamus Ferris, in a low, insistent drone, of a yearning he recognized, and he felt that now he should end his playacting and confide his feelings to the woman.
Foraes's voice is as insistent and beat up as ever, but tinny semi-psych guitars and wavering strings back him up, surrounding him with a new world to crawl into and work through.
The conflicting, dubious accounts by authorities; the insistent, dismissed accounts by eyewitnesses; collusion by a wider legal system; and a trail of broken black bodies will feel wearingly familiar to many viewers today.
The criteria of "insistent, persistent, and consistent" is meant to separate out children who are simply exploring or imagining themselves being the other gender from those who strongly and steadfastly identify that way.
Within that framing, both the show's graphic violence and its insistent focus on voyeurism come into focus as an attempt to mitigate the romance in which its source material wallows — with mixed results.
A rubber-band rhythm of tension and release grows monotonous, and the otherwise appealing naturalness of the dancers is marred by over-insistent eye contact between them, an effect like too much mascara.
It's a song that begs for reconciliation — "Let's get along again/Even though you moved around the bend" — even as the insistent rhythm and a gusty mix suggest that stability will stay elusive.
However, the demands of international justice and an insistent daughter force him into memoir mode, which means propelling the play into a sustained flashback, set in the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.
And then to the inner consciousness of the modern novel we add the extreme self-consciousness of the postmodern one, as in Jacobson, with the insistent mashup of forms and genres and characters.
He always took sand legally, he said — he was quite insistent on this point — and now he could help provide a comfortable standard of living for an extended family with over 40 members.
The governor, after initially acknowledging he was one of the men in the 1984 photo, is now denying that he was and refusing insistent calls from state and national Democrats that he resign.
At noon today, that clogged Congress is being disrupted, with Democrats taking over the House due to victories by activist, restive, insistent freshmen who will change both the face and tone of official Washington.
The paradox of media coverage of the 2016 GOP presidential race is that the longer Donald Trump dominates the polls, the more insistent pundits are that the maverick candidate is headed for a fall.
Then this week she dropped "Los Ageless," a cheeky counterpoint to the more wistful "New York" that thumps with insistent bass and a chorus that hasn't left my head since I first heard it.
"Adore," the six-minute centerpiece of the album, could have been an uplifting ballad about doing the right things and cherishing the moment; instead, it struggles against minor chords and an insistent bass undertow.
Insistent on having just one mezcal alone at the beginning of the night to research the bar business, Emma concedes to Cruz's persuasions to meet her group of friends in the Latinx queer scene.
So instead of throwing users a bone of convenience and giving them choice as to what a rare extra button on their phone should do, Samsung is insistent that it remain dedicated to Bixby.
France's presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron told CNBC he was insistent during his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday that he could reform the country and improve relations between the European economies.
I think one reason Thiebaud paints these impossible views is because he simply wants to see if he can pull it off, make it believable enough while also celebrating the painting's flat, insistent surface.
Russia's insistent provocations also explain NATO's plans to station around 5,000 more troops in the Baltic states, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, a decision likely to be formalised at a summit in Warsaw in July.
As summer ended without a decisive legislative win, Trump has only grown more insistent on following the volatile -- but, in his view, winning -- political instincts that aides have at times attempted to rein in.
If there's one problem with Blade Runner 2049, it's that human kidneys are too unpredictable, and the bladder too insistent, to guarantee you won't be the one doing the running during a critical scene.
But despite the fact that so many of my thirtysomething friends are insistent that theirs is the decade in which the bullshit finally starts to fall away, I'm not sure I totally believe them.
He emphasizes the shift in political rhetoric from Margaret Thatcher's forcefulness — "hard-edged, insistent, utterly sure of itself" — to the smoothly sophisticated message discipline and media management of Tony Blair in his early years.
His lifelong fixation on East Asia and his insistent interest in the extremes of the human condition were no doubt related to a sense of alienation he seemed to have felt his entire life.
The move toward a full percentage point cut stands in sharp contrast to Trump's insistent claims that the American economy is booming as financial communities are bracing for the first signs of a recession.
"Phil Scott has been a real insistent voice on Trump and has taken a lot of heat for it in his own party," Weld adviser Stuart Stevens told Politico in reference to Scott's comments.
Schubert can be very insistent about certain things, and the fact that you get this repeated every bar, over such a long space of time — there's something that he doesn't let you escape from.
In March, he released one of 2017's finest records in American Teen, an album that builds around a vivid dream sequence, deftly weaving soft R&B, melancholy pop inflections, and insistent, glowing melodies.
He can be discreet to the point of coyness (bodies sweat but don't necessarily grunt), but it is finally the insistent delicacy and depth of emotion that makes these characters so heart-skippingly tender.
Still, all the judges seemed insistent that the government account for that precedent in the Ninth Circuit and impose limits to make sure it didn't end up turning child porn into foreign intelligence information.
Peloton groupies are kind of like that, only more insistent, because they also point out how convenient it is — you can Peloton at any time without prebooking, without commuting, in any clothes you want.
During its nearly seven minutes, "Ducter" alternates between an insistent, minimal guitar vamp — with drums sputtering and erupting behind it — and a seething grunge guitar buildup that starts out slow and soon boils over.
The work bore a superficial resemblance to Ravel's "Boléro" — beginning with a quiet, insistent tapping in a mostly steady rhythm and ending with a volcanic outburst — but had a marked personality of its own.
The simplicity — a whole fish on a plate — has her name all over it, and the application of fennel oil is the sort of nuance — invisible, politely insistent — she prefers to screamingly interventionist moves.
As the spettacolo takes shape with fractious dialogue and insistent politics, it becomes evident that the filmmakers are less interested in the final play than in its production, in its process and multiple meanings.
In the past week, as each day New York State's restrictions on socializing have gotten tighter, my boys have become more shrill, more urgent and insistent about my "overreaction" to the social distancing guidelines.
The sex in the best-selling novels of the 19803s, and in the five years before and after that decade, was wilder and more insistent than it is in the popular fiction of today.
Despite being doused by floods of vitriol, Mr. Bannon rose days later like some particularly insistent zombie to talk with reporters about "American Dharma," a new documentary about him by the filmmaker Errol Morris.
Or, instead of being so insistent when I opt to change directions en route, it would compliment me for being savvy enough to make my own decisions based on real-time traffic I see.
Not only does Mr. Sanders have the loudest, most insistent voice in a party that, six months after the election, remains bereft and leaderless, but also his stridency echoes the mood on the left.
It'll be a fixer-upper, since he's insistent on living in a desirable section of their city — he's the only child from a wealthy family and his mother will lend him the down payment.
The lead single, "Up Jumped Spring," finds them pushing Freddie Hubbard's waltzing jazz standard to an insistent clip: Mr. Smith's pedaled bass and Mr. Kreisberg's taut guitar playing goad and tug at each other.
Now, the most important thing here is to differentiate between the two different kinds of insistence: the polite "are you sure?" kind and the much more insistent "I really want to pay half" kind.
Over the past few years, Martin has become more insistent that the show and books are different (a point I very strongly agree with him on) and he seems more than happy to prove it. 
He believed that the British establishment had become fatally out of touch on the biggest questions facing the country and used his formidable charisma—insistent voice tinged with Brummie, hypnotic stare—to seduce his audiences.
As the community has grown smaller, the question of whether to stay or go has grown ever more insistent, intensified by the splintering of families and increasing difficulties of following Jewish dietary and other customs.
A spokesman for the sheriff's department declined to comment on the DNA testing, but Edward Pavlik, one of the forensic dentists who identified Michael from his dental records, is insistent that the body is his.
Or the insistent reminders to enable HiCare, disable the background refresh of my most-used apps, sign in to a Huawei Cloud account, and grant all the invasive data permissions that the company lusts after.
I agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Ambassador has been so insistent, said he had a direct relationship with the President, and because Mr. Gorkov was only in New York for a couple days.
Xi was insistent that Trump publicly endorse the "One China" policy that has long governed US-China ties after Trump broke protocol by taking a congratulatory call from the leader of Taiwan after being elected.
Yet another part of me, an insistent voice inside, kept hanging on, hoping to gain another perspective of North Korea, which had become a siren call haunting the past decade of my obsession with it.
Paired with the quiet, insistent power of the riffs, her vocals—whether she's delivering them as an airy croon, a full-throated paen to the wonders of nature, or with a sly wink—are intoxicating.
Children are as different from each other as grown-up people; they are even more insistent in their variety of tastes; and a great deal more hurt when things do not go as they like.
That fight could be tougher for both sides, with Trump insistent he'll want funding for a wall on the border with Mexico and with Congress also having to tackle the debt ceiling later this year.
Macron said last week that he believed he had persuaded Trump to keep U.S. troops in Syria, but Trump has been insistent on bringing them home, although he has not publicly provided a definite timetable.
It's why Macron is so insistent that despite Trump's instincts, the United States cannot afford to withdraw its troops from Syria and leave an open playground for extremists like ISIS and regional superpowers like Iran.
Democratic strategists are insistent that Florida remains a "coin flip" between the parties (particularly after a US Senate race decided for Republican Rick Scott by about 10,000 votes out of more than 8 million cast).
In this 1970 piece, set to the insistent rhythms and atonal lyricism of Alberto Ginastera's Piano Sonata No. 1, the dancers move with a deeply rooted, grounded quality that feels very much of its time.
ABOUT THE 276ERS (2107-2106): Noel was playing in just his second game of the season following knee surgery and then a sprained ankle but was insistent that he should not be eased back in.
He insists on full employment for economic security but is just as insistent that man's work should not only provide economic security but also be such as to satisfy the creative desires within all men.
Los Angeles producer, Silent Servant, has shared a bitingly insistent new track off his just-released, vinyl-only EGR45-00003 EP on Swedish imprint Elektron Grammofon, subsidiary of the Swedish electronic musical instruments company Elektron.
My favorite detail of all: Bondarchuk was insistent upon using the meticulously bred Borzoi dogs for a fox-hunting sequence in keeping with the national tradition, except that the noble-bred species had grown uncommon.
To complicate matters further, traditional Italian pizza-makers are extremely serious about their craft, with many insistent that the high temperatures and conditions within wood-burning ovens are the only way to achieve pizza perfection.
In its insistent representation of what Greenblatt wanted the past to be like, instead of what the evidence suggests, it exemplifies that dire trend of "truthy" nonfiction books that present One Theory to Explain Everything.
And he has grown more insistent in his claims that it is the nation's trading partners, not American consumers, that bear the brunt of the costs from what amounts to a tax increase on imports.
Faster-moving water also means that the river may be more insistent than it would otherwise be about where it wants to go as it wends its way to its final home in the Gulf.
So, he drives and makes movies, and throughout this one he uses the S.U.V.'s windshield and windows to throw a frame around the world, an insistent reminder of his identity, his art, his vision.
In a statement, the Holland America Line, which operates the Westerdam, confirmed the virus case but was insistent that everyone on the ship had been screened on February 10, five days before the positive diagnosis.
The failure of the American electorate to rise up in opposition to President Trump — whose outrages are well-documented — suggests that voters are less tolerant, less empathetic and less insistent on integrity than many believe.
She described his demeanor as "very persistent and insistent," and she said he was "almost begging" her to go to Paris with him, offering to let her roommate accompany her if she'd be more comfortable.
While filming "Hustlers," she was insistent that the director Lorene Scafaria "get a close-up of my face," she said, lest someone think a stunt double jumped in for that film's remarkable pole dancing scene.
It was behind rumors that he's gay and living with the head of Radio France — rumors so insistent that Macron, who's married to his 64-year-old former high-school teacher, had to deny them.
Appearing before the House Intelligence Committee in the same dress uniform he donned for his closed-door deposition last month, Vindman often seemed insistent on reminding lawmakers of his status as an active-duty officer.
A feminist and Marxist who now also teaches, Barzini is a severe, unsparing critic of the commodification and exploitation of the female body by men, which greatly complicates her son's insistent, at times intrusive gaze.
Judge Kozinski was insistent that his clerks never reveal what went on behind closed doors — a tendency that went hand-in-hand with his well-known desire to dominate all aspects of his clerks' lives.
Ondi Timoner: A startup in LA saw We Live in Public and were obsessed with me filming their startup—they were really insistent and sent photos and [said that] they were going to change the world.
If the point of talking about racism is to address the ways that racial inequities are perpetuated in America today, maybe it would be better to discuss the Trump administration's insistent support for restrictive voting laws.
Lyrically, the 26-year-old catalogs his impressive accomplishments ("Milli point two just to hurt you, ah / All red lamb just to tease you, ah"), but the insistent drumbeat seems to quash any sort of celebration.
Despite its insistent theme on the loss of innocence (it's in the title!), Plague Tale does not invest in any vision of its world or young characters before they were drowning in rot and rat tails.
At the same time, others in their party are just as insistent that it's time for the party to leave a comprehensive health care overhaul behind and focus on smaller fixes that Democrats can get behind.

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