He insisted on buying me a drink and pulled two one-dollar bills from his pocket.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

In the case of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaoh was himself a god, and insisted on being worshipped in that way.

以埃及法老为例,法老自己就是神明,并且要向神明那般膜拜

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If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new Yahwism.

如果以色列人实际上是迦南人，他们从大团体中撤离，他们坚持耶和华的霸主般的唯一地位，那么没有加入他们的迦南人,对于新的耶和华崇拜便是一种威胁。

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But the country's interim government, led by Roza Otunbayeva, has insisted on pressing on with the referendum.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

In any case, Yeats was on the other side of the controversy and insisted, after all, that there is a continuing role for art, as indeed, on the other hand, there may well be even in such times.

不管怎么说，Yeats都不是保守派,他还认为，艺术具有延续性，实际上，另一方面。

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