However, it seems likely one day it will become mandatory to wear connected health devices, because employers will insist on it.

I always insist on quality, especially in food like bread.

He wants the required improvements, and others he will insist on, to result in a reduction in crime.

To accomplish this, insist on testing new applications in your infrastructure before they are purchased.

Yet those who have blind faith in markets continue to insist on lesser regulation for these oligopolies.

I sincerely plead with the civil service unions to negotiate with the government because of the warning strike they have presented to us.

I didn’t know whether to laugh or join the other passengers and plead with the man.

However, religious leaders will, at the very least, need to plead with corporate elites to “remain neutral on issues affecting religious freedom,” he said.

I plead with them to tell the artistes to be themselves and that whatever style they come up with, they will play.

We thought they might plead with us and ask us to let the men go.

Editors plead for fresh angles on old stories.

In the past we have also had people plead for leniency on their sanctions.

The 18-year-old is manhandled by the men before he appears to plead for mercy.

When the evacuation was suspended, civilians still trapped in the besieged district took to social media to plead for help.

When both sides showed up for the second performance, a loud ruckus forced the manager to plead for calm and there were continual interruptions.

Politicians don’t much care for it, either: all that phoning and meeting and generally importuning, when they could be degrading themselves in more useful ways.

We should, thus, importune our faith-addled friend on the way to the church, mosque, or synagogue, and patiently explain to him the errors of his ways.

Women take advantage of her economically and men importune her.

No pilgrims or other visitors are importuned by priests; the commercialism that goes with religious tourism is kept well away.

He importuned both to take him.