Sentence examples for it was stern from inspiring English sources
"It was Stern," he recalled.
This time, it was Stern who accused Billy Hunter, the union's executive director, of walking away.
It was Stern who suspended Sprewell after he choked the former Golden State Warriors coach P. J. Carlesimo in December 1997.
It was Stern, after all, who 11 years ago created professional sports' first sideline dress code that he called "business casual".
(It was Stern who founded the division, in 1992, by pitting Geraldo Rivera against Frank Stallone in "The Scrapple in the Apple").
In 2006, Wermiel brought Stern, of Congressional Quarterly, to the project and, their note continues, it was Stern who reorganized the vast amounts of material and drafted most of the chapters.
It's stern and noble, very much in the Rattigan spirit.
But where the language was once all coloured and clamouring, now it is stern and severe.
It is stern but romantic, and the tiny windows minimize disappointing views of the surrounding 50's-era ranches as they gradually give way to mega-haciendas.
As Buck Harvey writes in The San Antonio Express-News, it is Stern who should be apologizing to fans for this ludicrous schedule, not Popovich for trying to preserve his players' health.
Instead, the professor was stern.
