Sentence examples for a stern approach from inspiring English sources

He took a stern approach to typography.

In late June, Mr. Obama adopted a stern approach toward his Republican rivals, wagging his finger at them for failing to lead and mocking their frequent summertime breaks.

Mr. Yan said that view still prevailed in Beijing, and tried to explain why Chinese officials must nonetheless take a stern approach to the spy plane incident.

He took a stern approach to being a parent, and his poems and writings often focused on the annoying noise of "clamorish girls" and "boisterous boys".

In a striking reversal, politicians who had once favoured a stern approach to immigration suddenly found themselves asking for greater leniency, fearing that their local economies could be damaged by strict INS enforcement.Odder still, business leaders sought out alliances with advocates for Latino causes, with whom they had long tangled over such matters as working conditions for plant employees.

This resonated with several accounts in which respondents said that ward staff had taken a stern approach to them when they could not manage self-care.

Nahda members of the government, meanwhile, want a crackdown on jihad Salafists and a sterner approach to young people influenced by the broad Salafist ideology in the poorer parts of towns.

He has been an irritant to Donovan, a player who said he wanted discipline when he arrived at Florida as a transfer from Rutgers, but one who rebelled against Donovan's stern approach to defense and sharing the ball.

USAA, which has always gotten high marks for customer service, takes an even sterner approach than the institute.

Such a stern but diplomatic approach strikes us as more likely to moderate North Korea's conduct and to avert an explosive confrontation.

Tripucka nurtured a competitive spirit among his children, but when their backyard basketball games deteriorated into pointless arguments, he was a stern overseer, sometimes approaching with a broomstick.