insistence
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɪstəns/
- His insistence on punctuality ensured that all meetings started on time.
- continued insistence
- insistence on the importance
- insistence that all humans
Steve Doocy and Sean complained about the news team's insistence on reporting facts.
- Steve Doocy and Sean complained about the news team's insistence on reporting facts.
- But that doesn't mean you the, the, the Christian insistence is that there's always a pathway back.
- I think there's a sort of perfectionism involved in this, you know, insistence on the best.
- The Human Rights Watch received some criticism for our insistence on a better deal than the first deal.
- But oftentimes that comes with a lot of judgement of others and in insistence that this is the only way.
- So to me, I, I'm still perplexed as to, you know, why the why there's this insistence on only one form of evidence.
- Well, he certainly wasn't wrong in his insistence that Stalin was as big a monster as Hitler or bigger.
- One is, for example, there there's an intense insistence in the Christian tradition that the mind of God in some sense is knowable.
- I I would love to find ways in which an insistence on only believing, but that for which there is evidence could be spread virally.
- This is a continuation of Nvidia's insistence that the cards are compared with frame multipliers that exist on one and not the other.
- And, you know, in a certain respect, you could say that Aristotle, despite his insistences that practical philosophy is all about, like, doing things the right way.
- And in some cases, their insistence on doing it their way may have actually gotten things to a profitable place.
- Lenin's insistence upon discipline and upon good organization allowed the Bolsheviks to emerge as the winners.
- And my final encouragement to you follows on that, that insistence, that observation.
Examples
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Clearly, Trump is not budging from his insistence on a wall, which means this shutdown will keep going on for who knows how long.
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Her insistence that everyone contribute to the project was crucial to its success.
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At the insistence of many of my friends, governor.
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The Human Rights Watch received some criticism for our insistence on a better deal than the first deal.
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And it was my insistence, my insistence that Rose would be appointed to that role.
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I had to look closely, at the parents' insistence, to see the difference.
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A single glass of champagne at his insistence sends me to my bed with my head spinning.
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Yet he refused to waver in his insistence that the flag design must be changed.
Academic text (2008) -
I think there's a sort of perfectionism involved in this, you know, insistence on the best.
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At the miners' insistence, he had joined them in a lunch of flattened mole pie.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
A strong feeling of stress from difficult demands
A strong request or feeling that pushes someone to act
A strong, repeated request that makes people act
A strong need for attention right now
A firm, repeated demand for an answer or action
A strong repeated request that does not stop
Repeatedly asking for something in a way that annoys people
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Insistence comes from Latin parts in- 'on' and sistere 'to stand', and it is the noun form of the verb insist. So, insistence is like standing firm on an idea or demand and not giving up.