Sentence examples for fairly stern from inspiring English sources
"But at least half weren't happy with the woman's voice, which was fairly stern".
A fairly stern editorial in Global Times on the eve of Mr. Kerry's visit on Saturday suggested there was a limit to China's forbearance.
A new report from the London Assembly's cross-party budget and performance committee sizes up the financial challenge facing TfL and reaches some measured but fairly stern conclusions.
It's a fairly stern object and it encourages me to work — not that it succeeds much these days, but I love it.
In particular, the "Asian values" bits of Singapore its authoritarianism and its industrial policy that the Chinese seem to find especially congenial are less vital to its success than two more humdrum virtues: a good civil service and a competitively small state.The island that Lee builtSingapore is certainly a fairly stern place.
And in keeping with this fairly stern line from the home front, Israel radio reported that the Israeli delegation at Camp David believed that Palestinian officials were spreading upbeat interpretations about the talks in order to avoid blame for a breakdown.
Some C.B.A. officials told me that they wondered if the N.B.A. fully understood Chinese law, which made it very difficult to form a league without approval from the government, which, after all, ran the C.B.A. Stern and the N.B.A. seemed to recover fairly quickly, though, with talk of collaborating with the C.B.A. in any future league.
All you have to do is watch Bert Stern's strange, almost hallucinatory 1958 documentary, "Jazz on a Summer's Day," to get a fairly good idea of O'Day's particular talents.
