Ambreene glanced irritably out the window as she hurried along the Hall of Clouds behind the politely insistent seneschal. Why did Grandmama Teshla want to see her just now?
It is too austere, too insistent on fiscal consolidation even in recession, too prone to put the burden of adjustment on deficit countries, too dominated by lawyers, not economists.
But it's not a return to open ports. Italy remains insistent on European solidarity in terms of redistributing rescued migrants and not just on an ad hoc basis.
In this part of the cave, they could hear an insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small waterspout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.
Well, the polite thing to do is actually to serve yourself one or two bites and just try it, and just hope that they're not too insistent about you loading up with seconds.
Every day this summer had been the same: the tension, the expectation, the temporary relief, and then mounting tension again . . . and always, growing more insistent all the time, the question of why nothing had happened yet.
You know, it sounds like there actually were quite a bit of cuts that are coming out of this bill, and I know that Speaker Kevin McCarthy was very insistent that that was what they were going in to get.
And now the commands are met only with delight. You can be as strong, harsh and insistent as you like, safe in the knowledge that the other person is going to be just fine.
Today the morning has closed its eyes, heedless of the insistent calls of the loud east wind, and a thick veil has been drawn over the ever-wakeful blue sky.
Now, in an instant his lips would be upon hers, the hard insistent lips which she suddenly remembered with a vividness that left her weak. But he did not kiss her.
All the promises are unto them that believe, and unto them only. Notice how insistent Jesus was upon this point of belief; and now you know the reason why.
Her social superiority over him, which hitherto had scarcely ever impressed her, became unpleasantly insistent, and for the first time she felt that she had stooped in loving him.