Sentence examples for our seriousness from inspiring English sources

While repetitive, the American official said, the talks "were part of a clear dual-track strategy" of negotiations backed up by sanctions and the possibility of military force, and were important to display to the Iranians "our seriousness on both tracks and to keep P5 plus 1 unity" so that Iran could not divide one nation from another.

How we address them will measure our seriousness.

It will be a test of our seriousness and resolve.

"This government is absolutely committed, and we have demonstrated our seriousness.

"It sends a deep message about our seriousness and credibility," he said.

We Palestinians, on the other hand, constantly had to prove our seriousness of intent, and often faced threats and blackmail.

Maybe we had lost our security because our national seriousness had slipped away first.

In the wake of Derek's death, at the age of eighty-seven, I, like many of his former students, felt an urge to celebrate all that he gave us — most of all, his way of joking us out of our own seriousness while somehow also taking our work so seriously that he allowed us no slack, no unanswered notion, no lazy margins.

In conclusion, a measure of our own seriousness about collaboration will be the extent to which our schools, colleges, and universities across the country will have joined in supporting collaborative work financially.

O.K. maybe this isn't the greenest of suggestions, but we New Yorkers often take ourselves too seriously and yet, given the opportunity to dream, choke on our own seriousness: the result is the sort of middlebrow design now on the drawing board.

As we age, we grow embarrassed at our own seriousness, from remembering being that teenager sat in their bedroom, underlining words in a book.