What's the difference between emphatic and insist?

Emphatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Emphatical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
  • (2) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
  • (3) His first hat-trick for the club, at a stadium where visiting players are not used to profiting, was emphatic proof of that.
  • (4) It was emphatically not, as the Tory right and the dismayed left have already concluded, evidence that Britain remains a fundamentally conservative country.
  • (5) Nevertheless, the usefulness of gut endocrinology in the clinical management of gastrointestinal diseases, following an emphatic start, is now restricted to gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours.
  • (6) People use it to buy things, but (as the firm emphatically proclaims) "Kickstarter is not a store" – so it doesn't have to offer the same protections.
  • (7) The composition of the different protein-containing food substrata exerts emphatic influence on the induction of these enzymes.
  • (8) Manuel Pellegrini was delighted by the style with which Manchester City knocked out Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League semi-finals and the manager was emphatic they can win the competition.
  • (9) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
  • (10) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
  • (11) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
  • (12) Two goals each from Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young and the debutant Reece James , plus Danny Welbeck’s opener, returned an emphatic victory in United’s opening game of their summer tour of the US.
  • (13) Most have emphatically rejected proposals that they be forced to apply for warrants to access metadata.
  • (14) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (15) Indeed, the episode became part of a new escalation in hostilities between the two candidates which would later include King's charge -emphatically denied - that Respect activists were seeking to whip up Muslim antagonism against her by highlighting her Jewish background.
  • (16) Representing the German consensus, Schulz was much more emphatic about not isolating Russia and keeping the door open to negotiations.
  • (17) John Healey, shadow health secretary, emerging as a soberly effective and emphatic critic, this week exposed how new inflation figures show the NHS will suffer a real cut, alongside its most radically disruptive reorganisation.
  • (18) Most previous polls have found opinion leaning the same way, although the two-to-one margin revealed on Wednesday is particularly emphatic.
  • (19) There are clear majorities against unqualified teaching, especially emphatic among Labour voters (68%) and even more particularly Ukip supporters (73%).
  • (20) They were valid questions but Germany’s answer has been emphatic.

Insist


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.
  • (v. i.) To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (2) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (3) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (4) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (5) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
  • (6) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (7) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (8) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (9) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
  • (10) It certainly isn’t a good time for the association but we as a team are insisting on this being cleared up transparently and Wolfgang Niersbach, as president, is part of that.
  • (11) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
  • (12) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
  • (13) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
  • (14) But he insisted that there had to be “proper succession planning” before he would relinquish the leadership.
  • (15) Both a voter and Cooper repeatedly asked him if he stood by his comments in the last Republican presidential debate when he insisted that was the case.
  • (16) Cable, once a leading critic of City speculation, insists the shares will go to responsible investors.
  • (17) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
  • (18) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
  • (19) In what appeared to be pointed criticism of increasingly firm rhetoric from Cameron on multinational tax engineering, Carr insisted tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
  • (20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.