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• Insistence on 'shooting the messenger' or blaming those tasked with carrying out a flawed strategy, or even reporting on its outcome, for its failure, rather than showing loyalty and taking responsbility.
Marty Robins: Who Is Mike Martz and What Does He Tell Us About Our Economy? Marty Robins 2011
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• Insistence on 'shooting the messenger' or blaming those tasked with carrying out a flawed strategy, or even reporting on its outcome, for its failure, rather than showing loyalty and taking responsbility.
Marty Robins: Who Is Mike Martz and What Does He Tell Us About Our Economy? Marty Robins 2011
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Insistence on the good old days is an addiction in itself really.
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Anyway, sitting on my back porch, I got a new idea: Insistence is resistance.
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Insistence on a one-speed Europe might, only might, prove to be a feasible political policy.
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Insistence on the good old days is an addiction in itself really.
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Insistence on a freeze in settlement expansion, one of the most serious barriers to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, has been met with shock, hostility, and scorn.
Doug Bandow: Pres. Obama: Time for Washington to Do Less Abroad 2009
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Insistence on or reference to such plans would be spun by all the talking heads on the Right, by much of the public and almost every Republican in Congress as vengeful hardball partisan politics.
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In relation to the Christian Brothers, this is relevant:Indeed no one mentions, as Dr. Woods, a former minister for Education in Ireland pointed out, that corporal punishment, prohibited by Edmund Ignatius Rice was introduced after his death on the Insistence of the organs of state in Britain.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Insistence on specific legislative actions would level the playing field and result in economic and social justice. '
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