Insisted
Required
Required adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Nearby Words: requirement, requiring
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- bound and insisted
- bound and required
- constrained and insisted
- constrained and required
- ordered and insisted
- ordered and required
- obliged and insisted
- obliged and required
- compelled and insisted
- compelled and required
- commanded and insisted
- commanded and required
- enforced and insisted
- enforced and required
Both words in one sentence
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The band insisted the video's content was required to convey the song's message, and it was ultimately released unedited on the album as a DVD-Audio CD.
Source: Performance Video - Fox insisted that Firefly have a "space hooker" and required Joss Whedon to write a second pilot because they wanted more action and less drama.
- This was not part of the original script - Tom Baker insisted upon playing the Doctor in this way because the serial was unusually violent and he felt it was required as justification.
Source: Break the Badass
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