Sentence examples for being sternly from inspiring English sources

Or so it seemed on CBS's "Face the Nation" when Mr. Cain, the former pizza company executive known for his perpetually cheerful disposition, found himself being sternly dressed down by Mr. Schieffer almost like a misbehaving schoolboy – not the treatment presidential candidates normally expect from a Sunday television interviewer.

But at bat Robinson was sternly composed.

"This should be sternly punished according to the law".

I was sternly told off for inappropriate language.

Even the titles were sternly bereft of frills.

He said both would be sternly punished under the law.

Between Picasso's conservative critique and Duchamp's radical one, abstract art was sternly tested.

In addition, the opposition party, which has done well in recent elections, is sternly anti-nuclear.

I was sternly informed that they weren't opening the gates until the needle came down.

" 'Jewish owned press' have been sternly criticised, suggesting link to Jewish reporters," he wrote on Twitter.

His books were banned; his work was sternly declared "contrary to religion and morals".