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Muslim countries made a collective decision to issue a joint statement of support but to continue to signal their insistence on a full withdrawal by Israeli forces and a commitment to a Palestinian state.

Despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s insistence on holding the man, Valenzuela said the government failed to provide any proof that he had “violated any law or regulation” or show that he was a “flight risk.”

Under the circumstances, the GOP’s insistence that the healthcare subsidies be taken out of the current budget debate and deferred to the end of the year looks like a cynical ploy.

A couple of years ago I might have felt uneasy with George’s insistence to make his wife breakfast, his keeping her stuff, and his gift-giving, because it smacks against the acceptance stage of grief work.

When he fielded questions after the defeat, it sounded for the first time that Martin perhaps doubted his repeated insistence that better days lie ahead.