"No, I'm excited to see it go, to let others enjoy it, " he said, while insisting that he always saw himself more a conservator than as the final owner.

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The Local Government Association denied councils had defied the chancellor over low pay - insisting it had always been clear that council workers had a different pay settlement to civil servants employed directly by government departments.

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There are also those who get it wrong from the other direction, insisting that cutting tax rates always increases economic activity sufficiently to bring in extra revenue.

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The assembly speaker hit back, insisting that the government "had always respected the constitution and would continue to do so".

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Insisting on the latter way of thinking has always been at the root of hardware and system development at Nintendo.

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