Many activists in Paisley's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party.

Another antidodgeball activist insists that "at its base, the game encourages the strong to victimize the weak.... Schools preach the values of harmony, community and cooperation.

After torrential rain overnight there are large muddy puddles in the square but activists insist they will continue to camp out.

Education had been labelled by some leading party members as the 'fifth modernisation'(not democracy as political activists insisted), yet the lessons remained traditional.

In the face of great odds and powerful opposition, activists insisted that emancipation and racial equality could only be achieved through the political process.

The activists insisted they were unsafe, though the state had authorized their use provided the speed of the trains did not exceed ten miles per hour.

The activists insist that the perception of "yuppie flu" has arisen simply because middle-class people are more likely to present such symptoms to doctors and gain access to specialist clinics.

When I asked Warner if the G.O.P. was a corrupt party, as Democratic activists insist it is, he visibly cringed.

Yet anti-spam activists, or "anti-E-commerce radicals," as Mr. Hufnal calls them, insist that it is bulk E-mail itself that endangers electronic free speech.

The 21-year-old activist had insisted on her arrest with the other blacks, and once in jail, refused bail.