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Pre-K advocates insist it is proven and will succeed if integrated with the rest of the child's schooling.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

While using quality ingredients, David Tamlyn insists that the dishes should be offered at reasonable prices .

She insists that it's exposing workers to unnecessarily high doses of radiation.

I'm sorry you feel that way, but my mother insists that he come.

Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up, with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know.

Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective— should get priority in new hiring.

It could also insist on checking private manned spacecraft as thoroughly as it does commercial aircraft.

But Monsanto, the agricultural giant, insists it has a patent on the kind of genetically modified seeds Bowman used―and that the patent continues to all of the progeny (后代)of those seeds.

Gary insisted on buying the food for the picnic.

Sainz Breeze insist that such food is no joke and could be a new, sustainable source of protein.

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they dare in their sleep.

With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead.

And that's the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

We're doing everything but insist that manufacturers clean up their cars.