Sentences with phrase «insisting upon hand»

He remained playfully tricky to the end, insisting upon hand - picking his buyers, or agreeing to go ahead with the staging of a long - planned exhibition only if the dealer promised that it would be the last.

Not exact matches

Reason, on the other hand, has often been opposed to feeling by insisting upon fidelity to the evidence of actual experience.

But one thing is the business of religion; it always has been the business of religion — to lay its hands upon life's holy places and insist that they shall not be violated.

On the one hand, we insist upon rights.

Though consigned to a desk job, Nolan insists upon hitting the streets to solve the crimes at hand.

Originally, this was a small project space, relying upon a network of public institutions to generate selections for its program, but after a few years it evolved into a gallery in the hands of its two founders, the Australian curator and musician Dominic Eichler and the Austrian artist Michel Ziegler; eventually, it transitioned from its humble beginnings to the city's most affluent neighborhood, Charlottenburg — a counterintuitive move, but one the directors insist won't change its commitment to cutting - edge exhibitions, performances, screenings, talks, and social evenings.

[59] The consequence of treating the «handed down» requirement as the sole determinant of what is «traditional» law or custom is to discount well - established but more recent practices manifesting connection to land, and to insist upon evidentiary approaches requiring provision of conclusive evidence of pre-contact practices, customs and traditions which will often be «next to impossible» [60] for claimant groups to meet.