insistence
noun/ɪnˈsɪstəns/
/ɪnˈsɪstəns/
[uncountable]- an act of demanding or saying something clearly and refusing to accept any opposition or excuses
- at somebody's insistence At her insistence, the matter was dropped.
- insistence on/upon (doing) something their insistence on strict standards of behaviour
- insistence that… No one was convinced by his insistence that he was not to blame.
Extra Examples- The union has dropped its earlier insistence that workers should receive bonus payments.
- an insistence upon the highest standards of grammatical correctness
- insistence by the government that 25 per cent of all household waste be recycled
- their repeated insistence that the trial be held in a US court
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dogged
- dogmatic
- stubborn
- …
- abandon
- drop
- at somebody’s insistence
- on somebody’s insistence
- insistence by
- …
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