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

If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new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

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(Speech) Nemtsov says Mr.Medvedev could carry out his program if he demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, insisted that state TV directors lift censorship, permitted independent political activity, and most importantly,punished those who falsify election results.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

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