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What does insistence mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being insistent.
  2. An urgent demand.
  3. (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
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The Kurdish insistence on federalism is having repercussions throughout the country.
With firm insistence such as this, how could Charlie have withstood such opposition?
This is a lesson drawn from Derrida's insistence on the anteriority of writing.
In 1911, at his father's insistence, he sat the diplomatic service exams, passing with flying colours.
The Court's insistence on equal retirement ages in occupational pension schemes forced Britain to level ages up or down.
A more literal reading relates us directly to the pattern of the cosmos, with its insistence on the separation of categories.

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