insistence

Possessives

• government: However, the Government's insistence on linking the two could seriously damage the success of the ' regional project ' .
• management: AUT members at Brunel University are today preparing to take industrial action after management's insistence on pushing through unfair job cuts.
• mother: Cynthia Darling Michael is driven to distraction by an overbearing mother's insistence that her healthy daughter is ill.
• administration: Thus, the administration's insistence that it will only be ' months ' before testing abrogates the treaty is hard to understand.

Preposition: on

• unity: What risks are involved in adopting and defending an insistence on unity such as that implied by the ' One London ' campaign?
• importance: A particularly significant instance of this was Kuhn's insistence on the importance of the history of science for philosophy of science.
• nature: P's insistence on the relative nature of concepts is as clear ( for me ) as a diamond.
• standard: Our insistence on the highest ethical standards makes us a company customers want to do business with.
• need: The slippages have undermined Richard Granger's original insistence on the need for speed and his vow to avoid " scope creep " .
• value: With the publishing emphasis comes an insistence on hands-on values.

Adjective modifier

• dogmatic: Dropping the dogmatic insistence on a private company is a good start.
• stubborn: In her stubborn insistence on significance, Padel misses seduction entirely.
• repeated: Items only received attention after repeated insistence by officers.
• continued: In this report the continued insistence on this test shows the fallacy of judging the system by the wrong mark of efficacy.
• absolute: Due to her absolute insistence the student questionnaires were produced.
• s: Jayne has expressed anger at Big Brother ' s insistence that she be uncharacteristically subdued.

Converse of object

• increase: Now he needed to find a way to put off his family's increasing insistence that he find a husband.
• have: Close games are won by selfish players and James doesn't yet have the insistence of a star.
• give: Given Jesus' insistence that he was to be identified with Elijah it is probable that John did not realize his own significance.

Noun used with modifier

government: The price of British government insistence upon a monopoly of force comes at a high social cost.