Sentence examples for a stern one from inspiring English sources

Recognize that a silly approach can sometimes work better than a stern one.

His own view was a rather stern one: "If a priest falls deeply in love with a woman in a romantic way, he must abandon her friendship and any affiliation with her.

When the Walt Disney Company embarked on the ambitious blitz of building that would make it, by the late 1980's, the world's most talked-about corporate patron of architecture, it seemed mainly to be assembling trophies: a Michael Graves building here, a Robert A. M. Stern one there.

The government's tax survey program has been preceded by its tax amnesty plan, which is the subject of those newspaper ads as well as similarly stern ones on TV.

It was a little surprising that CBS would allow Mr. Stern on one of its shows to vent about the network's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against him, particularly since one of the network's charges is that Mr. Stern used his time on CBS Radio to promote his own interests.

We were going through Trude's — she was the stern one — texts first.

Within this small and cozy world, Lizzie oversees a household that includes her father, H. C. (the excellent John Cullum), and her brothers, Noah (the stern one, played by Chris Butler and Jimm (the cute one, played by Bobby Steggert).

She has a small voice, and her lines were the stern ones, the judgmental snaps: "Therapy only works/When you tell the truth".

Judge Raggi said she imposed bail conditions that were between the stern ones urged by the prosecution and a virtual lack of limitations suggested by Mr. Fischetti.

His crime was to have organised and publicised Charter 08, a petition that called for sweeping reform and the liberalisation of China's stern one-party political system.

Within Russia's gray days dwell two kinds: the stern ones and the ones with curved and sleepy smiles.