• Mr Simitis fought back by insisting that Pasok's next congress should be in October, six months earlier than planned.

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  • The system's designers got around this by insisting that funds meet performance targets or else make up the shortfall.

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  • But it irritated the government in Madrid by insisting that it will not accept political conditions for the aid.

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  • Mr Yudhoyono has won praise by insisting that all ministers sign contracts to which they will regularly be held accountable.

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  • Deutsche had treated Dresdner high-handedly by insisting that the smaller partner's investment banking arm should be sold off, Dresdner complained.

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  • It says Tokyo was just "trying to smooth things over" by insisting that the Post had misquoted Mr Abe last week.

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  • Arcelor brushed aside criticism by insisting that its articles of association and Luxembourg's statute book did not require any consultation at all.

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  • That was a thought I put to Sinn Fein's Mitchel McLaughlin who responded by insisting that republicans would stand by the text of the agreement.

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  • GPLv3 will prevent "tivoization" by insisting that freedom No. 1, the freedom to modify the program to do what you wish, is real and not a sham.

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  • Last week Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, angered American and Palestinian negotiators by insisting that 450 housing units in West Bank settlements would be built under plans previously approved.

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  • The larger point is that those who want to revoke local decision-making authority for broadband often justify their position by insisting that they want to protect taxpayers from mythical threats.

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  • In the meantime, Greenberg is hoping to convince cable and satellite companies to carry the station by insisting that Epix is as much about technology as it is about movies.

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  • Erdogan, a social and religious conservative, has outraged feminists in Turkey in the past by insisting that women bear at least three children to ensure a young population to keep Turkey's economy strong.

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  • Ince originally said that the gesture was aimed at England assistant coach John Gorman, yet Glenn Hoddle then contradicted the Liverpool player by insisting that it was neither directed at Gorman or the crowd.

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  • And Margaret Hodge, a Labour ex-minister, who now chairs the powerful Public Accounts Committee, has sent shudders through Whitehall, by insisting that civil servants must answer to Parliament for waste and inefficiency in government.

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  • VerBruggen responds by insisting that piracy is wrong.

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  • By insisting that nothing is amiss, Mr Berlusconi and Mr Tremonti are also passing up an opportunity to embark on reforms that would not only speed the economy's recovery but actually improve Italy's productivity and public finances.

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  • Instead of looking for a proxy to share ownership, those options, price targets for shares and so on, why not simply align incentives by insisting that the management, the agents, must be substantial shareholders and thus also be principals.

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  • By insisting that an auction is the only fair way to allocate spectrum, the Supreme Court has cast into question other licences granted before 2009 by different means, including those of Reliance Communications and the Tata group, two giant firms.

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  • As police monitored the conversation from another room, Baker tried for two hours to get Littleton to confess by insisting that the couple had no chance of reconciling unless he told her the "big secret" he had alluded to during their marriage.

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  • In an antitrust lawsuit filed last year, and still outstanding, a group of stores including Wal-Mart, Safeway and Sears, Roebuck alleges that Visa and MasterCard are acting illegally by insisting that retailers that accept their credit cards also accept their debit cards.

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  • This is why the government needs to show leadership on this issue by insisting that all areas of the country offer the same standard of care that is already available in the best areas at the moment and monitoring and managing standards to ensure that they are being delivered.

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  • His testimony about how this happened in his own life is plangent and familiar, but he addles it a bit by insisting that the real damage is being done at the neurological level, that our children are having their brains altered by too much instant messaging and the like.

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  • "The U.S. made a big mistake by not insisting that Musharraf and his government accept a massive deployment of international observers, " says Zia Mian, at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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  • They do that by insisting on a tortured construction of the Second Amendment that converts individual rights into states rights.

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  • He fell out with Freud and alienated his peers by insisting not only that orgasms were a panacea, but also that psychoanalysis should be a tool for social change.

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  • The results also suggest that if a reduction in the value of what Greece owes were followed by Ireland and Portugal insisting that they too should be let off some of their debts, the consequential losses would be just about bearable - though there would have to be a fair amount of help for banks from eurozone, especially German, taxpayers.

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  • And the pope did not repudiate a document signed by Cardinal Ratzinger, insisting that the Catholic church is superior to all others.

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  • Lord Taylor indicated he would accept the sanction if it was agreed by his fellow peers, insisting that he was "full of remorse" for what he had done.

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  • Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, writing at FT.com, argues that the company is asking for trouble by insisting on 30 percent of the cut from magazines and other publications that sell subscriptions through iTunes.

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