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That’s why, when a white employee named Melissa Koefod brought forth alleged charges of racism against a white employee, leadership insisted that receipts be brought or else it shouldn’t go forward.

An NGP spokesperson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on visiting Taiwan in disregard of China's serious concerns and firm opposition, seriously interfering in China's internal affairs, seriously undermining China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously trampling on the one-China principle, and seriously threatening the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Elections are choices, and the choice just could n’t be any clearer right now, democrats have stood up to the big special interests. They stood up to the big corporations and insisted that all corporations pay minimum taxes, stood up to the big oil companies and passed climate change legislation.

Ron Klain

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't know where they came up with this, we offered Pat Toomey -- Pat Toomey's standing in the way -- the ability to do an amendment at 60 votes just like the bill is a 60-vote bill. Pat Toomey insisted, at least in conversations with some others, saying' no, no, no. If you don't put it in the bill,' which will kill the bill,' I'm not going to be for it.' I stand by the offer.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

James McCord was the wiretapping expert on the team, and James McCord insisted on taping the doors. And James McCord was asked, did you remember to remove all the tape ? And James McCord said yes. And James McCord hadn't.

Tim Naftali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We insisted in authenticy to the Mexican American culture and authenticity to the Democratic Arizona part of the story. We didn't want to have stereotypes.

Max Gonzales

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have always insisted on negotiations. We have always offered dialogue, offered solutions for peace, and I want everyone to hear me now, especially in Moscow. It's time to meet. Time to talk. It is time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Way back in 2017 Trump -- without any proof -- suggested that former President Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower phones during the 2016 campaign. And again earlier this year, President Trump insisted that a filing by John Durham confirmed the spying. It did not. As Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler put it last month :.

The Durham filing

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He asked, why did he target a synagogue, and why he insisted on the release of someone who’s been imprisoned for over 10 years, we discovered an unexpected potential answer to the president's question.

Jack Donohue

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Already I miss her, she has shone more brightly in the last months than you would imagine even the brightest star could shine. In life, too, we had to rise to meet her. But her greatest and most exquisite act of bravery and generosity has been to 'normalize' her death. She's shown no fear, no bitterness, no self-pity, only armed us with the courage to go on and insisted that no one be sad because she is happy.

Damian Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

}'A disgrace': See how some Australians are reacting to Djokovic visa row 01:42 However you might feel about the polarizing Djokovic, there's not a scenario where he ever deserved this. It's unlikely the world's No. 1 tennis player would have got on the long commercial flight to Melbourne had he not been given a green light from tournament officials. But somewhere along the way, the information pipeline involving Australian Open officials, the Victorian state government and federal authorities has become a game of broken telephone. Prime Minister Morrison insisted the buck stopped with authorities at the border, not tennis organizers.

Tennis Australia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What they insisted I understand was that they had built the best culture in college football, they also wanted me to know that they owned that culture. They built it. It was theirs. And their message, stated clearly and convincingly, was Father Jenkins, do n’t screw this up.

Jack Swarbrick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Elected officials throughout the Commonwealth have repeatedly insisted that critical race theory is not being implemented in the state of Virginia, unfortunately, significant evidence exists to the contrary.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve always loved Britney Spears, i ’m always going to love Britney Spears. If Britney Spears’s happy with Sam and that’s going to happen, I ’m happy for Britney Spears. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER He also insisted that Britney Spears is.

Jason Allen Alexander

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many years later, Liz insisted on telling me in great detail the whole story of what she was feeling when she went off with my dad.

Mike Todd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now, listen, unless it's got crime scene tape around it, I'm not concerned, but it's just striking to me that when her daughter, two-year-old Caylee, was found wrapped in a blanket with duct tape all around her mouth and nose on her skull, which was by then skeletonized, wrapped in a blanket and in a trash bag -- a few houses down from the Anthony home in a swampy area behind a school, Tot mom Casey Anthony insisted at trial that her daughter had actually drowned.

Fox Nation

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I always supported looking at this possibility. But it was also my position from the outset that until we had actually vetted AVC’s [ Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance’s ] particular scientific allegations of WIV origin with real scientists, we shouldn't voice them in public, do demarches, or find China in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention over SARS-CoV-2. It was irresponsible of AVC to try to run with this before ascertaining whether its scientific claims could survive scrutiny, that's why I insisted upon vetting.

Chris Ford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There has never been anything like this at the presidential level because no President has insisted on owning a commercial enterprise at the same time they have existed as President, everyone in America is financially struggling, and he has this fail-safe method to minimize any struggling by his commercial properties by channeling other people's money to it.

Fred Wertheimer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At 3, he led me to the dark, dirty basement of my grandmother's house and put me on the washing machine and pleasured himself while molesting me, at 8, he bought me a piano and insisted on taking me to piano lessons, all so he could park and take whatever sick pleasures that he so desired. The same horrors occurring as he regularly insisted on bathing me. It took me until college to be able to use a bar of soap.

Jennifer Elmore

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The circumstances at Farmville right now are a perfect illustration of the ways in which the ongoing transfers that ICE has insisted on continuing are contributing to the spread of coronavirus.

Sirine Shebaya

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We filed litigation for a group of nine people who are medically vulnerable that we were trying to get out of detention and unfortunately, at the time, the judge didn't see things our way and didn't grant the release, the circumstances at Farmville right now are a perfect illustration of the ways in which the ongoing transfers that ICE has insisted on continuing are contributing to the spread of coronavirus.

Sirine Shebaya

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Governor spoke to the President today. When the President insisted on a full convention arena with no face coverings and no social distancing The Governor expressed concerns and suggested a scaled back event with fewer attendees, they agreed to continue talking about ways to have a safe convention in Charlotte.

Sadie Weiner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Roger Stone replied that Roger Stone was doing everything possible to address the issues at the highest level of Government. Pentagon Papers showe the extent of the FBIs surveillance, which included monitoring essentially all of Stones Apple services, from email to browsing history. Utility bills, address books, WhatsApp messages -- all were also under the bureaus review. Additionally, records illustrate the Trump campaigns curiosity about what information WikiLeaks was going to make public -- and reinforce Robert Muellers conclusion that the Donald Trump team didnt conspire with WikiLeaks or Russian hackers to obtain the materials.Former White House adviser Steve Bannon told Robert Muellers team under questioning that Steve Bannon had asked Stone about WikiLeaks because Robert Muellers had heard that Roger Stone had a channel to Assange, and he was hoping for more releases of damaging information. Muellers investigation identifiedcontacts during the 2016 campaign between Donald Trump associates and Russians, but did not identify any conspiracy to tip the outcome of the presidential election. The lengthy investigation fueled numerous conspiracy theories that aired regularly on MSNBC and CNN, as well as in print inThe Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. FILE - This Feb. 21, 2019, file courtroom sketch shows former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone talking from the witness stand as prosecution attorney Jonathan Kravis, standing left, Stone's attorney Bruce Rogow, third from right, and Judge Amy Berman Jackson listen, during a court hearing at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington. Jonathan Kravis will run a new public corruption unit at the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General, which has jurisdiction over juvenile offenses as well as misdemeanor crimes. ( Dana Verkouteren via Associated Press, File) In a statement Tuesday, Roger Stone acknowledged that the search warrant affidavits contain private communication, but insisted that they prove no crimes. I have no trepidation about their release as they confirm there was no illegal activity and certainly no Russian collusion by me during the 2016 Election.

Roger Stone

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I insisted that these drugs be provided only to hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 while under the supervision of a physician.

Rick Bright

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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    established or prearranged unalterably
    A adscripted
    B foreordained
    C eloquent
    D arbitrary