0 past simple and past participle of insist --
1 to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say: --
Please go first - I insist!
[ + (that) ] Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong.
One patient insisted on hearing her husband's interview.
My informants also insisted that zonal commanders, political officials and civilians organised relations between civilians and guerrillas differently, particularly during early phases of the war.
But he also insisted on a difference to phenomenology proper.
They insisted that the reserves of the system must be large enough to impress the markets.
In the following days the soldier insisted that he kept having the same dream.
In contrast, the woman's lawyer claimed the regularization of the marriage, and insisted that his client was perfectly able to conclude marriage on her own.
Although their methods were similar, he insisted, they were reached by different paths.
I insisted on bringing in utility and production functions because, once again, it is very hard to analyze credibility problems starting from ad-hoc demand functions.
