Sentences with phrase «much insistence»

Indemnity covers provide you the liberty to choose the doctor of your choice, hospital and the services you want to avail, without much insistence from the insurer to stick to one.

After much insistence, the girl sheepishly accepted her coin back.

You want an item that your child can easily relate to without much insistence on your part.

Not exact matches

To hear Stack tell it, this turnaround owes much to SRC's exacting quantitative controls, but even more to its almost evangelical insistence on giving human potential its due.

But despite President Donald Trump's insistence on making the best deals, in this case, it seems the US wouldn't have gotten much in return.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

her pride in her «great sense of modesty,» her insistence that we all don sackcloth, preferably after shaving our heads (like a novice, she marked her arrival in Paris by bobbing her hair) remind me of no one as much as Pope Francis.

Yet it must be said in fairness that there is probably as much paternalism in the liberal's all-wise insistence on «appropriate technology» in the face of a new nation's determination to have its own steel plants as in the conservative's all-wise insistence on monogamous marriage in the face of tribal insistence on polygamy.

The split, insofar as one has occurred, is due as much to the insistence of scientists that human beings are part of a wholly purposeless world as to the naïve and distorted beliefs of many Christians.

On the issue of sacraments, which dominated much of the discussion (partly due to Leithart's firm insistence on the absolute necessity of weekly communion), Sanders said little, given his low - church Zwinglianism on the issue, Trueman admitted their importance but stressed the centrality of the Word, and Leithart camped out on his own more sociological De Lubacian sacramentology.

The insistence that communism and fascism be weighed on different moral scales continues, says Martin Malia in his introduction to the American edition of The Black Book, because «no matter what the hard facts are, degrees of totalitarian evil will be measured as much in terms of present politics as in terms of past realities.»

Part of the strength of biblical poetry is its parsimony in the use of emotive adjectives, and to my taste there is altogether too much adjectival insistence in the ICEL versions.

One of our important duties, as I see it, is to be much clearer and much louder in our insistence that the Genesis story is myth and that no conclusions are to be drawn from it that presuppose its historical factuality.

The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are about sex and sexual activity.

I am shocked by the Christian teachings that instruct people specifically «how» to study God's Word in the «right» way — «how much time to spend» praying and studying the Bible — «how» to come to the «right» interpretation of each Scripture verse / passage (guided by them — tying the hands of God and Jesus» Holy Spirit, and ignoring that God's Word is living and active...)-- insistence that increased Bible study, prayer and intersession, by their sheer weight, automatically make us closer to being better Christians — closer to perfection and more pleasing to our Lord and Savior.

«22 The wars, as recorded, were so diverse that it is questionable whether the kind of pattern or design that von Rad discerns ever existed even in the minds of biblical writers, much less in the actual events.23 In particular, von Rad's insistence that holy war was always defensive can not be supported.24

For reasons such as the latter even Simpson, in 1911, declared that continuing insistence for the traditional materialistic view of resurrection «accounts for much repugnance to the Christian truth».21

[There is much to be said both] for the insistence on a radical and egalitarian individualism, and for the defense of complex institutions and social bonds....

• finally, Luther's insistence on sola scnptura unleashed religious anarchy, since others, much to his dismay, read scripture differently than he did.

The lack of the authenticating thread for genuine natural law - the nonnegotiable insistence that there are some universally valid precepts derivable by nature and unable not to be known (however much we are tempted to overlook them or pretend we do not know them)» is most clearly evident in the sections of each chapter where Porter sketches what contemporary moral theology can discover from her medieval labors.

Helpfully, given the widespread insistence on this reading of Francis, the Australian newspaper The Age reports that Francis has defrocked and excommunicated a priest who holds the views Sullivan seems to think Francis holds, if in much less overt form.

Here I have especially in mind the insistence of existentialism on the involvement of the self in every interpretation of the meaning of the world, a point with which existentialist thinkers from Kierkegaard to Jaspers, Marcel, Sartre, and Heidegger have been much concerned.

Much can also be gleaned on a pragmatic level about how best to open a church's arms to outsiders — not least Warren's insistence that the church gets no credit for new members, only for members turned into ministers.

At Cana, Jesus's irritation with Mary is not so much with what she asked him to do but with the insistence that he do it right then and there, on the spot.

It's an empty cliche that strategically keeps women in the home through the sly insistence that motherhood is much more valuable than any job that women could have in the public sphere.»

They pretty much put me through the same process they did Laurel, and if not for my insistence that the crew was wrong about their policy, they would have had me check in my car seat and strap my 12 month old daughter directly to their chair.

I bump into my old chum Jingo, who hasbeen called to justify his ghastly firm's insistence that it can regulateitself, thank you very much.

The mayor spoke at length about Obama's Wall Street reform plan in the wake of the Cooper Union speech the president delivered yesterday, reiterating his insistence that he agrees with much of what Obama is seeking — particularly when it comes to transparency and consumer protection.

If necessary, it can reassure its Leave voters that it wanted very much to leave the single market in apparent (although by no means clear) accordance with their wishes, but Dublin's insistence on a fully open border has rendered that impossible.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown how Lib Dem insistence on raising income tax thresholds has helped the better off far more than low earners who don't pay much, if any, tax.

Real questions alluded to in the News» editorial: 1) How much did Cuomo know about the targets of the Commission's investigations; 2) When did he know it; and 3) Did he bargain away, ie, shutter the Commission — at the insistence of Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — in his own political self - interest; and 4) What legislation (including budget bills, ie, «the big ugly»), if any, were tainted by Silver's alleged corruption?

This much was emphasized in an April 5, 2018 comment by President Buhari, while receiving Letter of Credence from the Head of Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria, when he said:» Our insistence on probity is to encourage people to be accountable, and accept honesty as a lifestyle so as to secure the future of our youths.»

The theorem states that either quantum mechanics is a complete description of the world or that if there is some reality beneath quantum mechanics, it must be nonlocal — that is, things can influence one another instantaneously regardless of how much space stretches between them, violating Einstein's insistence that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

Even though I consider myself an incestuous lover of sophomoric movies, I just couldn't consummate the affair with the original Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — so much so that I've had heated exchanges with people over my insistence that even Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was wildly funnier.

Worst of all, he's no good at it; and his obsessive insistence on allowing his robberies to run dangerously overtime — it has more to do with self - destructiveness than with greed — alienates us as much as it does his partners in crime.

The much - loved animated children's film giant Pixar probably isn't the first name you'd associate with Reynolds» foul - mouthed anti-superhero, but the actor is firm in his insistence that the home of

Credit the Farrelly Brothers with this much: given Hollywood's toxic insistence on character arcs, life lessons, and labored backstories, it's kind of a relief to discover their signature morons haven't changed in the slightest.

This follows on from Microsoft's adamant insistence that the feature is used much more than recent reports suggest.

Its Manichean simplification and insistence that evil is an external force that can almost be traced in the same way one does weather patterns (incidentally the much better Lord of the Flies was published in the same year).

The insistence by cast and crew that this was always going to be a far lighter affair than Batman vs Superman smacks of «the lady doth protest too much».

Their insistence on exercising control not only about where their dollars go and what goals they are used to achieve is very much in keeping with the more hands - on fashion in philanthropy today.

Unlike a pure concept, where designers can do as they please, the convertible has been engineered dimensionally to accept a roof folding into the trunk, hence Peters» insistence that the real thing will look pretty much like the concept.

Despite Bezos» insistence that he doesn't need his customers on the «upgrade treadmill», Amazon released an upgrade to pretty much every single one of their devices, including two new Kindle Fire tablets and the predicted backlit eInk reader.

I also show that since the early 1990s the much - vaunted «fundamentals» of the Australian economy have hardly — despite the mainstream's ubiquitous and often strident insistence — been sound.

I also think that his focus on creating structure for dogs is very important, as is his insistence that little dogs are still DOGS who need exercise and the chance to explore the world with their noses just as much as big dogs.

Probably how much I loved it there, including the food, the weather, the beaches, the people and the absolute insistence too many people had back home that I shouldn't go.

But the way this pervasive insistence on mystery rankles for voice actors points to a much larger tension.

It's possible to love the game for all it tries to do, but still feel smothered by its insistence that so much of our experience is delivered staring down the barrel of a gun or other deadly weapons.

I've already written at length about how much I love Thumper's insistence on feeling awful: «I've been waiting for a game to bend my arm past my elbow for years now.

Gorky was both a forefather to and a seminal figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement years before Pollock and Motherwell, he found ways to extend Surrealist dream imagery into a uniquely American abstraction, simply by pursuing Surrealism's insistence on the authenticity of interior experience freely transcribed on canvas — also the logic of much New York Abstract Expressionism.