How to Use "importunity" with Example Sentences

1. He lived in a slum ; he never appeared in society ; he avoided meeting the emperor except on one single occasion when the emperor 's importunity could not be resisted ; he refused all invitations to court functions on the ground that he possessed no court dress .

2. I say unto you , though he will not rise and give him , because he is his friend , yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth .