Sentence examples for don't get serious from inspiring English sources

You don't get serious reggae fans buying that.

"If we don't get serious we're going to turn into a second Haiti," he said.

"This is happening over and over again: people who are attacking minorities, they don't get serious punishments".

The United States plan seems clear: allow for "preliminary" talks to end the war through a broad-based "reconciliation" process, but don't get serious about a deal until beefed-up coalition forces have gained the initiative on the battlefield.

"If we don't get serious rain this month, this could be worse than the 60's," said Jeff Tittel, head of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club.

Women began to outpace men in home-buying in the late 1990s, and although no one is really sure why men haven't caught up, "it may be as simple as most guys don't get serious about housing until they meet the right woman," said Walter Molony, a spokesman for the association.

Lately, the biggest objection is that negotiations do not get serious until the mediation board starts the 30-day countdown.

In this country, pet keeping didn't get serious until after World War II.

"We started playing when we were 15 but it didn't get serious until we were 16 or 17," said Anthony Martini, 25, the lead singer.

A growing faction, however, insists that if Washington doesn't get serious now about scaling back entitlements and other government spending, then fiscal ruin might be just a decade away.

He didn't get serious about playing guitar and composing until college at Franklin and Marshall, in Lancaster, Penn., where he majored in government and English, hoping to be a lawyer.