What is "insists"

Usage examples of "insists".

Every time I see her, Her Majesty always insists on giving me money or sweets or cakes or something delicious!

But our little Greek from Sicily has been doing some research, and now he insists that Piggle-wiggle drank a very nasty brew decocted from crushed peach seeds!

The rear door was padlocked on the inside, and the old man across the street insists no one else went in or out that evening after Nguyen got home around eight.

CEO insists that someone came in while Emerson was in the cage, took his tag off the receptacle, put in the plug, went over to the control panel and threw the switch.

He insists on the fly, and the inn, and the wet boots, and the warming mixture, and the testimony of the landlady and the railway porter.

I am a Scholar of the University, not the interloper everyone insists on making me out to be.