Sentence examples for stern assertion from inspiring English sources
It was his stern assertion that peace groups must remain non-exclusive.
Omirbaev tells the tale with briskness, simplicity, and restraint, getting his actors to move smoothly and to speak with understated, pointed calm and capturing their heartrending action in mock-bland images that alternate between stern assertion and stunned disbelief.
After a 12-month inquiry concluded there was insufficient evidence to form a case that the officer had lied, Mr Mitchell held a press conference during which he was "stern, insistent, outraged... emphatic in his assertion of innocence," according to Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail.
That 117 players from a field of 156 were under par on day one, with the cut coming at four under, possibly vindicated the oft-repeated assertion the course was not a stern enough test ahead of Open.
In its stern, unforgiving way, it concentrates on the known facts and known oddities like the official assertion (later corrected) that the four bombers caught the 7.40 from Luton on 7 July 2005 when that train was cancelled that day.
That brought stern rebukes.
Rochester, Pittsburgh and San Diego are nearly as stern.
