What nobler insistence on the rights of manhood do we find in the writings of the Puritans?
It is this insistence on the philosophic sanction of our revolt that gives the sublime touch to our political performance.
There was no parleying with the insistence of his pale, drawn face and his fingers playing in nervous tension on the table edge.
Turcas, as tirelessly industrious as ever, developed an increasingly quiet insistenceto leave the responsibility of decisions about everything of importance to a chief who was becoming increasingly arbitrary.
Insistence on the full Nationalist demand as it had been outlined in the Convention meant the refusal of a new and powerful alliance which now offered itself, and the destruction of anything which could be called an agreement.
On the other hand, there was strong insistence on the right of an Irish Parliament to have complete power of taxation within its jurisdiction.
Insistence on the time-limit was from this point of view a matter of absolute principle.
Another objection to the line taken in the introduction is that the isolated insistence on Nietzsche's "physiological" standard gives the impression of a type of thinker inconceivably remote from what he really was.
Death is a variation, a note of lower or higher insistence in the rhythmical sequence of Life.
Partly owing to the insistence of circumstance, partly from choice, we began that autumn a series of wanderings that brought us back to London and to Scotland for a few weeks only each summer.
This was due to the warlike character of the feudal institutions, to the jealous insistence of the feudal nobles on their right to fight out their own quarrels without appeal to law, and to the weakness of the king in the feudal state.
Karl's insistence upon the conversion of the Saxons to Christianity is in line with the policy of his predecessors to Christianize all the Germans.
It is this simultaneous softening in the insistence of desire and enlargement of its scope that is the chief moral end of education.
The ordinary child regards the appointed duties of lesson getting in the nature of work and feels the same pressure of insistence and compulsion in relation to them.
He looked at her peculiarly and gloomily, with the strange insistence of a man who wished to extract a tremendous secret from a glance.
And a third element of strength lay in the insistence of Islam upon the perfect brotherhood and equality before God of all believers, whatever their colour, origin or status.
In his passionate insistence upon the need of experiment and of collecting knowledge, the spirit of Aristotle lives again in him.
In this there was an insistence upon mental uprightness, upon right aims and speech, right conduct and honest livelihood.
Both showed the same disagreeable insistence upon their own superiority to other men, whose rivalry they could not brook.
And this is in spite of the fact that such insistencemay seem incongruous.
But this letter has been completely rejected, and even spurned by Guido himself, since in the prosecution for flight we find no insistence was made that action should be entered against Pietro and Violante for their pretended instigation.
Jealousy is a fierce insistence on ourselves, an instinctive intolerance of our fellow-creatures, ranging between an insatiable aggression as its buoyant phase and a savage defensiveness when it is touched by fear.
I do not know why this blind insistenceoffended me.
His insistence upon cleanliness, neatness, and paint became so well known that his approach to a community frequently caused frantic cleaning up of yards, mending of gates, and painting of houses.
A threatened split in the Baptist denomination in part accounted for his insistence upon attending this convention.
Probably in nothing was his instinct for putting first things first better shown than in his insistence upon proper food, properly prepared and served for both students and teachers.
Carlotta with youth's insistence on probing wounds to the quick.
At his insistence however Ruth had finally consented to wear her mother's wedding ring as a sort of shadowy protection.
The questions that he had resolutely kept in abeyance all evening began to dance in impish insistence before him.
She was not ashamed, not in the least; but her ardent desire to prove her fitness for that coveted profession, together with the compelling insistence of that persuasive voice, prompted her to hold out a reluctant hand and to smile.
This event belongs rather to the general history of Europe, but it is interesting to note that owing to Ferdinand's insistence the Protestants in his hereditary dominions did not obtain religious liberty at this settlement.
Indeed, so far frominsistence on one Temple, we expressly read (Exod.
No woman perhaps ever lived who worried a man less in friendship, or who gave, without any insistence upon it, a stronger impression of loyalty, of tenacity in affection to those for whom she cared.
Please do," said Dion rather earnestly, struck by a sort of little pang as he remembered the boy's urgent insistence that his visitor was to come again soon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insistence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
