Sentences with phrase «often insist upon»

They often insist upon a lack of childhood memories.

Even when trade agreements required sacrifice on the part of particular American industries, they were often insisted upon by the U.S. State Department for reasons of national security.

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It would not insist on open declarations or solid resolutions; it would realize that genuine human experiencing is so complex and intricate that such declarations and resolutions are often not possible and, if insisted upon, not honest.

His attacks on the Jewish Law in his epistles do not seem to have been on the Torah as such, although this is how they have often been understood, but upon those who insisted that gentile believers were required to observe all the commandments of the Law.

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

The liberal transaction in which victimized blacks insist upon relief from guilt - ridden whites often points away from the necessity for us to be engaged in our own improvement.

Ah, how often has it not happened that someone has politely insisted upon owing Socrates a great debt, although he owed Socrates absolutely nothing!

I make it a point to be casual about the wine pull, letting other people use it whenever they insist upon being helpful, though I often awaken in the night, convinced that it has been thrown away during the cleanup period, and then I go downstairs and open the drawer and see it, but return to bed convinced that I have nevertheless had an accurate premonition of its fate following the next dinner party.

By insisting that conventional wisdom is flawed, he often stumbles upon fascinating discoveries.

«The installation of the exhibition will build upon intersecting histories of commercial, domestic, and museum displays often associated with women's work, insisting on art's other life: decorative and functional objects that are lived with, loved, and used but also enchanted, erotic, unruly, whimsical, and weird,» said Charlotte Ickes, curator of the exhibition.

Humor often reminds us of the importance of perspective, encouraging flexibility and reality testing by insisting upon the existence of valid viewpoints outside of our own.

[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.