21.   The president insisted last week that he intended to keep his promise.

22.   The president insists he is not a one-man ruler.

23.   The president insists on preserving Medicare for the elderly and the social safety net for the poor.

24.   The president insists that he remains supportive of the child health care initiative.

25.   The university president insists that the arrest of Sobeh was a security matter that had nothing to do with the exam questions.

26.   There were no explicit veto threats, although the president insisted that he would not accept any tax cut that threatened to send the deficit soaring.

27.   They said they doubted he would, and predicted that other countries would block such protections even if the president insisted on them.

28.   This is happening at the same time that the president is insisting on an elaborate system of testing to measure student performance.

29.   Thursday, the former president insisted that a healthy US-Chinese relationship is crucial to a peaceful, prosperous future.

30.   What puzzles me is why the president insisted so strenuously on throwing away our surplus, with hard times looming and big-ticket obligations coming due?