insistence

Eventually I gave way to Bunny's insistence and lost my virginity, appropriately enough, in H.G. Wells's spare bedroom.

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Jessica Ferri

April 10, 2014

Her younger sister was removed from school as well, at the insistence of her new family.

Her Husband Shot This 17-Year-Old Afghan Girl In The Face—And She Lived

Nina Strochlic

March 21, 2014

He was very clear in his insistence that Americans are not dumb.

Richard Hofstadter and America’s New Wave of Anti-Intellectualism

David Masciotra

March 9, 2014

We're partly to blame, too, what with our insistence on compartmentalizing the people in our lives.

Seth Meyers Gets Off to a Rocky Start on 'Late Night'

Kevin Fallon

February 25, 2014

Sports Illustrated sent Shrake down at his insistence to do a piece on the beautiful and haunting Big Thicket area of East Texas.

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Edwin Shrake

February 2, 2014

There was a note of insistence that carried a curious dignity of its own.

In that insistence lay her ultimate compensation for untold misery.

I think that my unhappiness had as much to do with my father's insistence on the change, as anything.

What harm could visit him if he yielded to this corpulent adventurer's insistence?

All his distrust awoke into fresh life at Claude's insistence.