Sentence examples for stern demanding from inspiring English sources

I remember, as an 18-year-old army private, writing a thank-you letter to my stern, demanding, motivating high school English teacher.

They eventually escaped their provincial hometown and their stern, demanding father to make their way, successfully, in Paris, and eventually in New York.

But Voichita has found God in the monastery under the aegis of the stern, demanding Father and the rather more kindly Mother Superior.

Mr. Richardson describes his father as a stern, demanding and withholding figure, who gave him reading assignments he would be quizzed about over meals.

Within hours of the deal's terms becoming public, the Cleveland Cavaliers' owner, Dan Gilbert, sent a scathing e-mail to Stern, demanding a vote by the other 29 owners.

For James is the model of a critic: devoted, patient, learned, exhaustive, sensitive, stern, demanding and, above and beyond all else, judicious to the last qualifying phrase.

In "Speaking in Tongues," the longest and most unsettling story, 14-year-old Tia runs away from her elderly great-aunt and the stern demands of being "saved".

And then today, the Japanese authorities said an American nuclear submarine had docked without permission at a port near here, provoking an unusually stern demand for an explanation.

It maneuvered its allies on the United Nations Human Rights Council to transform a stern demand for an international war crimes inquiry into a resolution celebrating its triumph over the Tigers.

Even though most of the tweets do not directly mourn the people Rodger killed, the tweets accumulate into a kind of memorial, a stern demand for a more just society.

For his part, Mr Bush has done nothing but repeat his stern demand that the crew and the aircraft should be released immediately so that this "accident" does not escalate into a more serious "international incident".