Sentences with word «insistent»

The danger is that they become more insistent on particular doctrinal formulations, including some that are not closely related to Christian experience and life.

[since that's just the way it is, i wonder why mr wenger is not more insistent on ensuring he has at least 2 good players at each position?

Why is everyone so insistent of fitting a square peg in a round hole??

He punctured the complacent acceptance of the current orthodoxy with insistent questioning — «Why?»

This facet of life and living as insistent in spite of abundance works in conjecture with the portraits of black folks, which rest against the walls.

But even Terry Moe and John Chubb who in their book, Liberating Learning, are as insistent on teacher union power as Andy, do not think unions are such powerful Luddites they can block new technologies forever.

That might be why Cuomo was so insistent about getting the WFP to accept his platform of reform, enabling him to accept the labor - backed party's nod and providing left - of - center Democrats a place to go — assuming they come out at all and aren't turned off completely by his message of fiscal conservatism — in the November election.

But I am very insistent on getting reauthorizations enacted into law for two reasons.

A probing inquiry into the most insistent of human hopes.

But in the past decade these legal protections have been systematically dismantled in response to pressures to speed up the execution process — «we just need to kill more quickly» is the primary rejoinder to the argument that the death penalty is not a deterrent — and to address the increasingly insistent demand for «victims» rights.»

Businesses will be more nimble, smaller and more insistent upon matching the work to be done with the individual who is able to best do the work.

But what's most telling about today's announcement is that Facebook remains insistent on arguing that it's not really in a position to make judgements about the stuff it shows its two billion users — someone else needs to do it.

Yet he worries that «the Lutheran center no longer holds, as insistent voices from the left and right dilute our catholic liturgical, catechetical and theological traditions to much the same effect.»

The AHA and US government dietary guidelines pointedly decline to differentiate between omega — 3 PUFA and omega — 6 PUFA, and remain quite insistent in urging us to consume lots of all types of PUFA.

Wiseau spent $ 6 million of his own money to make The Room (though it could've cost less if he wasn't insistent on shooting in both 35 mm and HD).

To George, Churchill is an impolite oaf, not to be trusted with the delicate British soul; to Churchill, the king is an alienating presence, far too insistent on halting, stifling protocol.

And very insistent at walk time.

Others seem insistent on forcing us to return to them — yet another reason I tend to be somewhat skeptical about the idea of universal human progress.

It has an irreducible, independent core, and receives determinations from insistent, intrusive forces....

In India, the emerging conscious rationality focused its attention on interpreting the traditional religious activities in terms of the increasingly insistent needs of individuals to find freedom from the suffering of isolation and estrangement.

Crosby's insistent focus on surface tenderness, on the embrace — whether of one or many — is evermore affecting, and increasingly troubling, as it migrates in more recent works.

He is my resistant insistent reminder to reject the answer and the made point.

She also reminds Senator Long of how insistent he has been that welfare recipients ought to do a minimum of work.

But above all, his gentle but insistent call for compassion is desperately needed in our torn and conflicted world.»

My point is that, despite insistent claims that they simply follow the «clear teachings of the Bible,» complementarians themselves are not in total agreement on what those teachings are.

Karen Lewis is no less insistent that she and her union are fighting for everyone, not just for teachers.

The bees seem to be rather insistent in wanting to come in.

Rainbow: Rug is the first solo West Coast presentation of Israeli artist Moshe Ninio (b. 1953) whose oeuvre — comprised of drawings, photographs, and video — offers poignant insights into insistent universal themes.

«In these meticulously painted works, darkly layered atmospherics and inky blacks articulate elusive, mysterious settings and subtly shifting light conditions, while the landscape imagery, through insistent repetition, alludes to a psychologically charged and emotionally resonant space.»

The documentary has its flaws: the flashiness of the editing, an overly insistent score, the sheer annoyingness of many of the talking heads.

Displayed in a gallery, they retain their connection with the world outside at several removes, exerting an oddly insistent presence.

His work of the 1970s, explored in the next room, gives voice to an entirely different attitude, of insistent materiality, as opposed to the dematerialised floating wedges and bars of the 1960s.

In its own quietly insistent way, the picture takes the sort of tragedies that have inflamed a nation and been co-opted for all sorts of political purposes — tragedies from Fruitvale to Sanford, Fla. — and brings them back down to human scale.

Whether strutting about in the nude with a magnificent lack of embarrassment, seducing a crowd with a karaoke cover of Deep Fish's «Direction NYC,» or cheerfully antagonizing everyone in sight, he is an impudent, insistent life force in a movie that slowly and meticulously charts a course for death.

For example, Whitehead wants to claim that the things which we experience have an «insistent particularity» of their own:

Even that does not deter my strange, insistent desire.

Among the most insistent questions in British politics is what model of capitalism the UK needs to remain a wealthy and cohesive society.

Granted, there are typically some odd choices and a rather insistent need to pick thematic pairings (I have to assume many people are getting slightly tired of the zombie double - bills every year — or is that just me?)

Now with two kids strapped to her side, she's still insistent on making the world her oyster.

She does so by extending the staged efforts of photo artists like Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas but with slightly smaller, more insistent color images.

Off - the - line grunt is respectable, while you'll notice an increasingly insistent push in your back as the revs climb.

My perspective is that there are a number of connections that arise both from the issues that confront us as Christians living in a mass media age and from the Bible's insistent message.

Aki Sasamoto's contribution to the Whitney Biennial 2010 consists of the «careful arrangement of sculpturally altered found objects and insistent repetitions of performance that change and add to the feelings of the installation; the objects themselves provide guidance for the artist» structured improvisation.

You should start walks at the time that best works for you, because she will remember when that is and can be fairly insistent at that time.

Gal says «no,» Don says «yes,» and the détente continues until Kingsley gets really insistent.

If a fairly anti-Christian professor --- and we know there are such creatures --- is stern and insistent enough, even given to badgering students or saying it's «required» of them, more will do it.