0 present participle of insist
1 to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say:
[ + (that) ] Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong.
Please go first - I insist!
She's 85 now, but she will insist on doing all her own housework.
The men at City Hall insist that big spending cuts are just not practical.
The police insist that they are not relaxing their campaign against drugs.
They insisted that all swear words be deleted from the article.
She insisted on telling me every single detail of what they did to her in hospital.
And where scientific approaches tend to narrow down, insisting on procedural and stylistic conformity, performative ones sprout out, cultivating procedural and stylistic originality.
Publishers should be condemned for not insisting that authors cite sources of all information given in the text.
The tower construction enables one to treat-in a unified way-a larger class of dynamical systems without insisting on optimal results.
