17 example sentences using insistence.
Insistence used in a sentence
Insistence in a sentence as a noun
FSF's insistence on "GNU/Linux" has always been childish, but now it's just silly really.
Apple can veto your income on the insistence of popular opinion or on a whim, or with no stated reason at all.
Also, for an agency focused on security their insistence on using Windows XP was baffling.
The only problem here is Hacker News's insistence on using the original title even when it does provide enough context.
""Emphasis and insistence that security is not an objective thing but is relative to the observer.
Our insistence on uniformity began the modern oppression of children.
"But on the other hand, "users and developers are exasperated with Craigslists insistence on preserving an outdated interface and design.
I'm talking about the constant insistence on citations and double-blind studies, even when it isn't appropriate - even when someone obviously means only to share their own experience.
Two of the cases were caused by Avira, a product we had previously recommended, repeatedly failing to update, combined with insistence on the client's end with using Internet Explorer.
He didn't have a Jewish background, but he became very interested in Judaism because of it's views on morality, and I even bought a book on the Talmud at his insistence, so that we could talk about it.
That, plus their insistence along with the rest of the New York media of putting periods in anything that looks like it might be an acronym or initialism, even when they are dead wrong and it isn't!SOS is a case in point.
"More: behind much of todays hagiography there seems to lurk a sort of perverse insistence that if Turing hadnt been gay and a ******* he would be less apt for veneration, as a founder of computer science or anything else.
Even leaving aside whether "hate," "homophobic," etc., are appropriate here, there are potential practical implications here, and the insistence that this is a private political matter that has no impact on his professional life is problematic.
I find it darkly amusing that the rarity of these events is being invoked to convince people to moderate their concern, when this situation only exists due to the government's insistence that we treat even more rare events as gravely serious threats to our way of life.
And this is exactly why SV is not anything revolutionary, despite the insistence of PG and co. There is no Golden Age, just a bunch of old guys accumulating wealth by exploiting youthful naivete by cranking out a steady stream of technological toys designed to hook us, rather than serve us.
The whole Lessig/Palantir issue is so illustrative of the tech community's bizarre insistence on ideological purity on political issues, and consequently illustrative of why tech as an industry has so little political influence despite having money and people.
Code gets reviewed for production at 6am by a guy freshly rousted out of bed who committed some of it four hours earlier, and who is doing this at the insistence of a "frantic" colleague, the fix involves "a bunch of commits" from more than one person, and his main worry is that he might be held responsible for a hidden back door maliciously inserted by his coworker?
Insistence definitions
continual and persistent demands
See also: insisting
the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters"
See also: imperativeness insistency press pressure
the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position"
See also: insistency