Iran,which recently agreed to let nuclear inspectors into a newly revealed facility, has insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new Yahwism.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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She planned to convince other artists to record the tracks until Martie insisted Emily sing them herself.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Khatami insisted that the IAEA is required to supply the fuel, despite reservations by the West.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

Mr.Talabani,addressing the PKK directly, insisted that it had one of two choices: either to end it is military activities, or to leave Iraqi territory.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Unification Ministry deputy spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo says North Korea has not yet insisted that Yu will be treated according to North Korea's domestic laws.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

He insisted the company is doing everything possible to contain the spill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

"As President Obama insisted and as part of the Israeli Knesset believes, Israel has to now give clear guarantees that it is not going to expand these settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The issue is far from being settled. The United States has called for Israel to freeze settlement construction, but in response Israel insisted the freeze would be time-limited and exclude settlements currently under construction.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Kurdistan's Interior Minister, Karim Zingari, who belongs to the ruling coalition between the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), insisted that international observers saw to it that the process went smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

But Ayatollah Khamenei, without referring to Rafsanjani or the reformist camp by name, insisted that it is not permissible to level criticism at the system, and that those who do so "will be hated by the people for causing strife."

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Other infectious disease experts,however, have insisted Australia's is over-reacting to the outbreak of the A-H1N1 virus, insisting that,so far, the disease is no worse than other strains of influenza that kill hundreds of Australians every year during the colder winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30