insistent demand

collocation in English

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insistent
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈsɪs.tənt/us
/ɪnˈsɪs.tənt/
firmly saying that something must be true ...
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demand
noun
uk
/dɪˈmɑːnd/us
/dɪˈmænd/
a ...
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(Definition ofinsistentanddemandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That demand comes mainly from urban districts, and it is a veryinsistentdemand.
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Finally, we have theinsistentdemandfor higher wages.
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There seems to be from all points aninsistentdemandthat extension should be made.
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I mention that because, again this afternoon, there has been aninsistentdemandfor further inquiries into fuel and power resources.
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The normal channels had been interfered with, and after the last war came the demand, theinsistentdemand, for the removal of control.
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It took some twelve months ofinsistentdemandbefore that was realised.
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Nevertheless, there is a feeling that we must stand absolutely firm against theinsistentdemandof the miners.
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There has been for a long time a ratherinsistentdemandby a number of people for the legal registration of certain decisions.
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I am sure there will be aninsistentdemandfrom all quarters of opinion for a reduction of that expenditure at the first feasible moment.
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But there was noinsistentdemandthat it should be embodied.
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As familiar markets stagnate and old products wilt there is aninsistentdemandto move into new, unfamiliar territory.
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There is aninsistentdemandfor it from all over the country, by air-raid precautions officers and organisers as well as by the general public.
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There is not a shipbuilder in the country who imagines that the present high andinsistentdemandwill be a permanency.
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There is aninsistentdemandfor further industrial plant and storage space.
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At the present time there is aninsistentdemandfor an increase in old age pensions.
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There is aninsistentdemandfor leadership.
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If there is some temporary dislocation of management and labour, the great andinsistentdemandfor all man- and woman-power will quickly re-absorb them into new activity.
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If there is some temporary dislocation to management or to labour, the great andinsistentdemandfor man- and woman-power will quickly reabsorb them into new activities.
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The problem is not so bad as it sounds because there will be, immediately after the war, aninsistentdemandfor all classes of goods all over the world.
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