0 an occasion when you demand something and refuse to accept opposition, or when you say firmly that something is true -- 坚决要求；坚持主张；坚持
Insistence on better working conditions by the union has resulted in fewer employee absences. 工会坚决要求改善工作条件使得员工缺勤的现象有所减少。
At her father's insistence, Amelia's been moved into a new class. 基于阿梅莉亚父亲的坚决要求，她被转到了一个新班。
[ + that ] Her insistence that she should have the best room annoyed everyone. 她坚持要最好的房间，这使大家都很恼火。
Insistence on an entirely local quality to indigenous movements therefore suggests that indigenous peoples are being held to a different standard.
Representations of feminine desire abound in seventeenth-century music and then disappear with the eighteenth-century insistence on patriarchal values.
Nevertheless, although textual insistence that the installation's time is independent of the 'oblivion' beyond becomes clear, the role of the whisper cannot be purely linguistic.
The insistence on refugee settlements ensures the creation of a category of people who are excluded altogether from their assumed benefits.
He was also acutely aware that too strong an insistence on virtue might threaten happiness.
The contradictions between the official adult age and a woman's resultant rights could hardly make sense with the judicial insistence upon her under-age status.
Many of the details of dowry transactions are very similar, including the insistence on the wife's continued ownership, whatever the management arrangements may be.
The 'insistence on keeping in touch' begins with the relationship we maintained with knowledge.
