Kew Gardens were insistent that I couldn't come and hack into their rubber tree.

The growing and insistent demand for integrity in public life further emphasizes the complexity of modern public administration.

And by the way, she was also very insistent on being able to change the color, an important feature for this demonstration.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

So insistent was Chen s campaign that it reminded some people of Mao s Cultural Revolution, a time when Chinese were divided into us and them. Indeed, under Chen s policy, Taiwan nearly became a rigidly divided society, where local and not native Chinese lived as potential enemies.

Since Britain had been one of the most insistent advocates of enlargement of the EU to the candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, one might have expected that the Blair government would have wished to be correspondingly generous to the new comers in the conduct of the budgetary negotiations.

As an activist in world civil society I would echo the insistent and disenchanted voices of world social movements who say to the heads of State who are or were present at this Meeting that the world as it is now is ethically unacceptable, politically devastating and economically and environmentally unsustainable.

Some organizations, like Human Rights Watch, solve the problem by refusing to accept any government funding. The ICG doesn t do that, but it has always been absolutely insistent on saying whatever has needed to be said, and in practice governments have been remarkably tolerant of specific criticism, provided it is well supported and well argued.

Albion are insistent upon signing a replacement before letting the former England Under 21 international go but their 15m move for Diafra Sakho broke down days before the takeover, with the club stating he had passed his medical and everything was agreed but he had a back injury that would have meant missing the start of the season.

But when it comes to immigration, there is not much in the liberal tradition to which they can turn. As a result, in both Europe and the United States, much of the debate over immigration is dominated by illiberal voices, the most insistent belonging to politicians who promise to protect the cultural integrity of the homeland against the presumed degeneracy of the alien.

The French have been the most insistent that Europe has interests that are not identical to America s particularly in the Middle East, where France has been pro Arab. And, like de Gaulle, Putin has sought to rescue his country from humiliation and defeat by carving out a role consonant with popular feelings of national mission and pride, with national interest interpreted as sovereignty.

The needy, who are too engrossed in God's cause to be able to travel about the land in search of a livelihood, are considered by those who are unaware of their condition to be free from want, because they refrain from begging. But they can be known from their appearance. They do not make insistent demands upon people. Whatever wealth you spend, God knows it.

The needy, who are too engrossed in God's cause to be able to travel about the land in search of a livelihood, are considered by those who are unaware of their condition to be free from want, because they refrain from begging. But they can be known from their appearance. They do not make insistent demands upon people. Whatever wealth you spend, God knows it.

A multilayered and complex chronicle of the devastating tragedies of the twentieth century, Blinding is an insistent, informed, and irreplaceable incursion into the moving landscape of the human soul, its wounds and voids, its vitality and versatility, its deep distortions and its unpredictable dynamics. It is a fascinating story about the conflict between ideals and reality, or Utopia and humanness about being faithful to a cause and betraying it and about sacrifice and solidarity.

Above all, the term was an effort to communicate to Americans, accustomed to waging war with speed and decisiveness (and insistent on it since Vietnam), the long term sacrifice and commitment needed to win a war of survival. Its proponents also understood that the war would not be limited to weapons, but would need to be a sustained effort, involving, as they put it, the whole of government, with civilian agencies marshaled behind military or paramilitary objectives.