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If they insist, as they are, in holding on to a model that has failed in all senses, then the response is obvious: the ones causing a crisis have to leave; otherwise we'll never overcome it, we've insisted that the solutions to the crisis have to be democratic, constitutional, pacific and electoral. Nothing else. – Henry Ramos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Return of the Jedi, that's because Harrison insisted on it. – Kathleen Kennedy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I’d suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage three months before, so we were over the moon, marcus was so happy, he cried. He couldn’t wait to be a dad, and insisted on coming with me to every scan and appointment. He was thrilled when we found out we were expecting a baby girl. – Ashlee Peers	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Hans Fabermann insisted that 'mining', his only business, was not to be misinterpreted as being a cranial enterprize: – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
Lungu said during a speech from President Edgar Lungu office. The government tried its best to keep the job losses in the mining sector to a minimum, we would have lost all the jobs if we insisted on no job losses. The mines have told us why these jobs are being lost. The challenges in the mining sector are bound to continue. – President Edgar Lungu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I don't want intelligence shaded by politics, i don't want it shaded by the desire to tell a feel-good story. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He had told me to use the old frames again because he did not want to spend much money and insisted on paying for them. – Alessandro Spiezia	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We insisted that we weren't going to do that. – Premier Oil Durrant	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I drink milk produced domestically, but for my mother, I insisted on buying a cake that uses high-quality ingredients. – Jin Yuchen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When Mr. Alexander repeatedly insisted that he had no information, one officer pointed to a plastic bag hanging on some pipes, asked if he knew what it was for and said, 'You know what waterboarding is?' Mr. Alexander recalled, the officer then put the bag over his head and started beating him again, Mr. Alexander said. – The New York Times	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're taking precautions. I've insisted on it, believe me, every day I've (said) to the head of the interior ministry, 'Are you watching him closely? Are you sure?,'. – Osorio Chong	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The lender benefits from a greater allocation than it would otherwise get and receives an attractive return, but the cost to the borrower is still inside the flex that arrangers would have insisted on if the loan was to be syndicated. – Jason Kyrwood	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I insisted that elections should be called as soon as possible and held within the legal time frame. – Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They finally have a player they can work with. This is not Karzai, who insisted on...insulting the United States, and really sort of implying he was sympathetic with the Taliban. This is a guy who is really very pro-American. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The TSA has insisted on keeping documents about SPOT secret, but the agency can't hide the fact that there's no evidence the program works. – The ACLU	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The pressure around this decision back then was enormous. But I insisted -- I ordered the construction and it paid off, today, Har Homa is a flourishing neighborhood in which tens of thousands of Israeli civilians are living. As we proved in the past, my friends in the Likud Party and I, we will keep Jerusalem protected and keep developing it. – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world. – President Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He insisted he wanted to tell his story, and that is his right, but any time you expose yourself to cross-examination you are exposing yourself to fire. And he got burned. – Paul Carty	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
My son Muhammad Tayyab ... told me that he was not feeling well yesterday and not willing to go to school but I insisted he not miss the class. So on my insistence he went to school, yesterday when I heard the news of the attack on the school I rushed to the spot, tried to reach the school but I couldn't because the operation was in progress. Then students started coming out, dead bodies and injured students ... Despite my poor financial condition, I did everything to give him a quality education. He was my everything and in just one moment I lost everything. – Muhammad Fawad	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's a story I’ve heard plenty of times, that the patient resisted seeking help but the spouse insisted or they call the daughter who happens to be a nurse or whatever, and that's why they’re here. – Justin Sattina	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There have been periods( in China) where ordinances existed, there were mayors who insisted( to put) Chinese roofs on modern buildings but it's like a pendulum. – Rem Koolhaas	Found on CNN 9 years ago

If they insist, as they are, in holding on to a model that has failed in all senses, then the response is obvious: the ones causing a crisis have to leave; otherwise we'll never overcome it, we've insisted that the solutions to the crisis have to be democratic, constitutional, pacific and electoral. Nothing else.

– Henry Ramos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Return of the Jedi, that's because Harrison insisted on it.

– Kathleen Kennedy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I’d suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage three months before, so we were over the moon, marcus was so happy, he cried. He couldn’t wait to be a dad, and insisted on coming with me to every scan and appointment. He was thrilled when we found out we were expecting a baby girl.

– Ashlee Peers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Hans Fabermann insisted that 'mining', his only business, was not to be misinterpreted as being a cranial enterprize:

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

Lungu said during a speech from President Edgar Lungu office. The government tried its best to keep the job losses in the mining sector to a minimum, we would have lost all the jobs if we insisted on no job losses. The mines have told us why these jobs are being lost. The challenges in the mining sector are bound to continue.

– President Edgar Lungu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I don't want intelligence shaded by politics, i don't want it shaded by the desire to tell a feel-good story.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He had told me to use the old frames again because he did not want to spend much money and insisted on paying for them.

– Alessandro Spiezia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We insisted that we weren't going to do that.

– Premier Oil Durrant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I drink milk produced domestically, but for my mother, I insisted on buying a cake that uses high-quality ingredients.

– Jin Yuchen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When Mr. Alexander repeatedly insisted that he had no information, one officer pointed to a plastic bag hanging on some pipes, asked if he knew what it was for and said, 'You know what waterboarding is?' Mr. Alexander recalled, the officer then put the bag over his head and started beating him again, Mr. Alexander said.

– The New York Times

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're taking precautions. I've insisted on it, believe me, every day I've (said) to the head of the interior ministry, 'Are you watching him closely? Are you sure?,'.

– Osorio Chong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The lender benefits from a greater allocation than it would otherwise get and receives an attractive return, but the cost to the borrower is still inside the flex that arrangers would have insisted on if the loan was to be syndicated.

– Jason Kyrwood

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I insisted that elections should be called as soon as possible and held within the legal time frame.

– Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They finally have a player they can work with. This is not Karzai, who insisted on...insulting the United States, and really sort of implying he was sympathetic with the Taliban. This is a guy who is really very pro-American.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The TSA has insisted on keeping documents about SPOT secret, but the agency can't hide the fact that there's no evidence the program works.

– The ACLU

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The pressure around this decision back then was enormous. But I insisted -- I ordered the construction and it paid off, today, Har Homa is a flourishing neighborhood in which tens of thousands of Israeli civilians are living. As we proved in the past, my friends in the Likud Party and I, we will keep Jerusalem protected and keep developing it.

– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

– President Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He insisted he wanted to tell his story, and that is his right, but any time you expose yourself to cross-examination you are exposing yourself to fire. And he got burned.

– Paul Carty

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My son Muhammad Tayyab ... told me that he was not feeling well yesterday and not willing to go to school but I insisted he not miss the class. So on my insistence he went to school, yesterday when I heard the news of the attack on the school I rushed to the spot, tried to reach the school but I couldn't because the operation was in progress. Then students started coming out, dead bodies and injured students ... Despite my poor financial condition, I did everything to give him a quality education. He was my everything and in just one moment I lost everything.

– Muhammad Fawad

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a story I’ve heard plenty of times, that the patient resisted seeking help but the spouse insisted or they call the daughter who happens to be a nurse or whatever, and that's why they’re here.

– Justin Sattina

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There have been periods( in China) where ordinances existed, there were mayors who insisted( to put) Chinese roofs on modern buildings but it's like a pendulum.

– Rem Koolhaas

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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