Sentence examples for a stern reaction. from inspiring English sources

Thani claimed that the remarks were fakes, planted onscreen by hackers working for enemies of Qatar, but they prompted a stern reaction.

Naturally, Mr Covington's lifestyle met with a stern reaction from neighbours in nearby Pacific Palisades, which is home to some of America's wealthiest Nimbys.

This was punishment for an unspecified breach of team rules but a stern reaction to a growing pattern of misbehavior that Smith, by his own admission, had let slide.

McNamara insisted that the North Vietnamese attacks were real and alarming enough to provoke a stern reaction.

Back then, managers were expected to have a stern response to an employee who had an emotional reaction in the office, said Dr Kimberlyn Leary, chief psychologist at Cambridge Health Alliance and associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.

The Pakistani army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in an unusually stern reaction last week, said that missile attacks by American drones in Baluchistan, as implied by the Americans, "would not be allowed".

The suggestion elicits a stern response.

Bad behavior was met with a stern response, not concessions.

Defence Minister Kim Min-seok vowed a stern response to any provocation.

That is the lesson from the Kremlin's stern reaction to a European antitrust investigation of the Russian gas giant.

The stern reaction today may be in part a tactical diplomatic move.