Sentences with phrase «insisted upon raising»

The reformers insisted upon raising academic standards for all students and ensuring that students of all backgrounds meet them.

After Congress passed the historic law, educating all of America's children well gained momentum as a moral imperative... The reformers insisted upon raising academic standards for all students and ensuring that students of all backgrounds meet them.

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But what we do insist upon is that in the final analysis of any human problem, we have to raise these ultimate religious questions if we are to have any adequate understanding of what fulfills a human life.

Should there be an «individual» who could not feel easy about yielding, and who raised a strong objection to this widespread practice of excusing, alas, we have not yet heard all; for there is always one excuse held in reserve, that lies in wait at his door and demands of him, «What good does it do for a single individual to insist upon opposing this?»

Concerned about leaving his long - term position in an industry with which he was familiar, Mr. Alsip rejected the first offer of employment and insisted upon a pay raise and a fixed term of three years.