They insisted on the `` fundamental fact '' that `` the whole of Berlin has a quadripartite status ''.

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

They declined this, and insisted that he complete the final six films he owed them.

They insisted on Mendelssohn telling them his views on Jesus and managed to get from him the statement, that, provided the historical Jesus had kept himself and his theology strictly within limits of orthodox Judaism, Mendelssohn " respected the morality of Jesus ' character ".

They insisted that I play on Steinway exclusively, everywhere in the world, otherwise they would not give me their pianos in the United States.

The Classical unities of time, action and place were the main principles of French neo-classical drama during part of the 17th century. They were introduced by Jean Mairet after a misreading of Aristotle's Poetics, and the critic Castelvetro insisted that playwrights and directors adhere to the unities.

They had always been very close: she had publicly embraced him on the day he set off to Spain, and during a jousting tournament, he insisted his lance carry her ribbon instead of his wife's.

" They insisted I quit playing Santa Claus ," Oswald observes.

They insisted on conventional instruments and vocals as well as synthesizers.

They had been secretly engaged, and he had insisted she fight for the whole estate and not compromise.

" They insisted on the restoration of the ancient Catholic customs.

They sent her to the local inn, where she identified a drawing of a pineapple with the word ‘ ananas ’, which means pineapple in many Indo-European languages, and insisted on sleeping on the floor.

They claimed that if the workers still insisted on a wage scale, they would not be able to do business while paying adult wages and would be forced to close down.

They played a lot of cuecas by Roberto Parra and received the Gaviota de Plata, an award that is reserved only for the festival's music contest, but the crowd insisted strongly until the band received it.

They rented out Knights of Columbus halls in areas such as Cambridge and Newton, and insisted that the performances be " all ages shows ".

They also insisted that these institutions, to be properly understood, must be placed in a meaningful and dynamic historical context.

They insisted on changing over 80 lines, and the film had to go into production.

They insisted that they could not only control taxation, but also public expenditure.

They insisted that the Church was to adapt to the realities of the new Communist regime, to revise its attitude toward socialist doctrine, and to make significant changes in its own canonical and liturgical tradition.

They insisted that two consecutive championships were required, having demanded the same of Akebono before his promotion.

They insisted that the Puritans conform to religious practices that they abhorred, removing their ministers from office and threatening them with " extirpation from the earth " if they did not fall in line.

They were not however permitted to join the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies ( OMS ), a group established by the government and chaired by Lord Hardinge in order to mobilise a non-striking workforce in the event of general strike without first relinquishing any explicit attachment to fascism as the government insisted this group remain non-ideological.

They rejected the outer veneer of the corrupted church and insisted on the normativeness of biblical authority.

Following the invasion of the USSR, Hitler insisted that the Slavs should be treated like the helots under the Spartans: “ They Spartans came as conquerors, and they took everything ”, and so should the Germans.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

They think of it as a kind of spooky museum in which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor.

They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

They withdraw to the underground of the slums where they can defy the precepts of legalized propriety.

They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.

They are not true because scientists or prophets say they are true.