English-French translations for insist

• insister
• avoir besoin de ~
• demander
  Nous ne devrions pas "demander" aux autorités, mais "insister pour que". We should not ask the authorities, but insist.
• entêter
  Néanmoins, nous devons accepter le fait que nous vivons dans un monde interconnecté et que s’entêter à insister sur le statu quo ne constitue certainement pas une solution alternative viable. We must nevertheless accept that we live in an interconnected world, and that stubborn insistence on the status quo is certainly not a viable alternative.
• exiger
  Le Parlement doit exiger cette cohérence. This Parliament has to insist that there will be.
  Nous devons toutefois accomplir le premier pas avant d'exiger le deuxième. But we should walk before we insist on running.
  Ce que nous exigeons de la Chine, nous devons l'exiger des autres aussi. What we demand from China we must also insist on from others.

Definition of insist

• To hold up a claim emphatically
• To demand continually that something happen or be done
• To stand ; to rest ; to lean (upon

Examples

• The defendant insisted on his innocence
• I insist that my secretary dresses nicely
• The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellors resignation
• The Prime Minister insisted that his Chancellor resign
• I insist that my secretary dress nicely

Related words

• insistence
• insistent
• insisting
• insistently
• insist on
• I insist on it