insisting

• In my last post (also only my second post) I mentioned that one thing that makes me cranky is students coming to linguistics insisting, and continuing to insist even after my brilliant teaching on the subject, that "a double negative means a positive."
• Twice in the current month a poster at UT has criticized Glenn's use of sentence initial "most importantly", insisting, rather pedantically, that the "correct" form is "most important":Usage"Importantly" means "in an important manner."
• Riccardi saw that there was no point in insisting, and he tried to cover things up by declaring that no harm was intended and that he considered Galileo one of his best friends. —  Galileo in Rome
• A strange and beautiful album, and the only example I know (if what I've read is true) of a record label insisting that an act expand its conception to double-LP length. —  The Big Takeover
• It should pre-empt the many friends of the Government of Sudan from insisting, as the al-Bashir government routinely does, that the crisis in Darfur is very much the responsibility of its own victims. —  AllAfrica News: Latest

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