Sentence examples for reputation for severity from inspiring English sources

Intriguingly, a reputation for severity can accomplish as much as severity itself.

He is bracing for a new trial scheduled to start on Saturday, before a judge with a reputation for severity.

But the conditions laid down by Qatar Airways go beyond more familiar rules.A perusal of online forums used by cabin crew suggests that Qatar has a reputation for severity among industry professionals.

Mr. Babbitt, who had a lively sense of humor despite the reputation for severity that his music fostered, sometimes referred to himself as a maximalist to stress the musical and philosophical distance between his style and the simpler, more direct style of younger contemporaries like Philip Glass, Steve Reich and other Minimalist composers.

Stevenson became a High Court judge in 1957, and acquired a reputation for the severity of his sentencing.

In 1900, William Laird Clowes commented that "There is, unfortunately, much reason to suppose that Captain Corbett's [sic] reputation for extreme severity had antagonised his crew, and that the men did not behave as loyally as they should have behaved".

Kagame became Museveni's chief of intelligence and gained a reputation for incorruptibility and severity by enforcing a stringent code of behaviour.

Badgers have a reputation for being grumpy.

ARGENTINA'S reputation for transparency is poor.

He has a reputation for personal probity.

Patrick had a reputation for ruthless violence.