0 an occasion when you demand something and refuse to accept opposition, or when you say firmly that something is true: --
1 the act of stating or demanding something forcefully: --
But their insistence on developing their own critique of international affairs was a challenge to the norm.
The liberal insistence on the equality of individuals finds its flipside in laws and policies that are blind to difference.
Two, her insistence and rendering the proof of her marriage, and its acceptance by the court.
This methodological focus on individual differences is a form of particularism - an insistence on the priority of particulars over abstractions.
Indeed, the insistence on stable truth and unifying principles accentuates formal considerations in aesthetics.
That insistence stems from the more fundamental aim of the revisionists to resist the anachronising teleology that often accompanies ' grand theory ' explanations of the past.
In part, this seems due to the editors' insistence on short essays.
The 'insistence on keeping in touch' begins with the relationship we maintained with knowledge.
