Sentence examples for more sternly with from inspiring English sources
Football did not purge itself overnight and only came to serious grips with its problems after a particularly cynical World Cup in 1990 persuaded Fifa to set up a task force with the aim of getting referees to deal even more sternly with, among other things, professional fouls.
His music resembled bop in its brisk variations on standard themes, but was less rhythmically volatile and more sternly obsessed with pure improvisation.
The boy was stiffer, and his piece more ambitious, and Lang, getting a little exasperated now, cut him off and, more sternly, began to talk with him about the intricacies of various passages and the piece's harmonic construction.
Recently it has made concessions, signing dozens of bilateral information accords and making tax evasion a "predicate" offence for money-laundering, which means it can be dealt with more sternly.
He was told, at first with a kindly grin and then more sternly, that he was carrying too much weight.
Twice-boiled water is frowned on even more sternly.
He or she might do more to reassure Gulf monarchies and speak more sternly to Iran.
And he is giving Aceh the latitude to implement Islamic law more sternly.
"But next year we'll just warn customers even more sternly: 'Add two hours!
"I said," now a little more sternly, "give me a high five".
She was also a fan of John Donne, an even more sternly handicapped genius, and one evening got us into an extended conversation — I remember almost every word of it — about his poem "Aire and Angells" (note the spelling), which she was unravelling with an eleventh grader.
