In sterner terms than those used by President Bush just three days ago, the State Department spokesman, Richard L. Boucher, said that "Israel needs to understand that targeted killings of Palestinians don't end the violence but are only inflaming an already volatile situation and making it much harder to restore calm".
So it was more than a little surprising when Faggen and I returned to the house one afternoon thinking that we were on time and were informed, in the sternest terms imaginable, that we were not.
Instead, the Hungarian government's intransigence prompted European officials to say in the sternest terms yet that they were prepared to take the government to court to reverse what critics fear is a drift back to autocracy in Hungary, a former Communist bloc country.
In stern tones, Mr. Obama said that the automatic cuts, known in budget terms as a sequester, would "affect our responsibility to respond to threats in unstable parts of the world" and "add thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls".
He assumed the role of battlefield commander, admonishing the president in public in the sternest of terms.
Later Mr. Carter's "Dialogues for Piano and Large Ensemble," with the intrepid Tamara Stefanovich, reinvented the Romantic concerto in the composer's stern, somber terms.
In the present method, the analysis quantifies the effects of small changes in stern rake angles and offers an inverse design approach towards finalising the stern shape.
In Freudian terms, the stern Mimi, a practitioner of what we now call "tough love", is at work on John's superego, while the rebellious Julia, offering unconditional love, is exciting his id.
The binding has been quantified in terms of Stern-Volmer quenching plots.
His stepfather, a Holocaust survivor, was caring but stern, and pushed him to think of life in pragmatic terms.
