Sentence examples for a stern set from inspiring English sources

She is an ideological innocent, a superheroic Candide who obeys a stern set of values and looks for the best in everyone.

This strongly suggests that we did not miss any considerable number of identifiable cassettes with spacers from the Stern set while the false negative rate of our predictions given the available data is low.

This can easily be devised by considering, e.g., a Stern-Gerlach set-up in which the path followed by the microsystem according to the value of its spin component hit a fluorescent screen and excite a small number of atoms which subsequently decay, emitting a small number of photons.

The severity of the economic downturn will set a stern test of lenders' credit management.

His disciple, Mme de Genlis, set a stern face against make-believe of any sort; all marvels must be explained rationally.

The referee, Jaco Peyper, was also clearly under instructions to set a stern tone at the breakdown and there were three lengthy TMO referrals for potential collision-related fouls in the first quarter alone.

When some giggle at his questions, he sets a stern tone: "Shut up.

— the intrepid Laura (a stern Jennifer R. Morris) posts fliers, sets up a Web site and harasses the proprietors of the theater where she believes her shoe has been lost.

The early Israelites possessed a strong centralizing force in their monotheistic faith, combined with a stern code of ethics, which set them apart from all their neighbours.

An émigré from Kiev, Ukraine, Kudla mounted a stern attack in the second set, climaxed by a stunning backhand that drilled Hajek at the center of the net.

In "The Places in Between," Stewart set up a stern contrast between the lifelong commitment shown by British colonial civil servants and their flighty modern equivalents.