Sentence examples for stern demands from inspiring English sources

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".

Whether shouting for Swedish pancakes in a Japanese diner (a very Pynchon-flavored snack) or bowing to the stern demands of his wife (whose head is severed by the top of the frame, like that of the maid in "Tom and Jerry"), Bigfoot remains at the business end of the comedy.

Hensher notes that the National Curriculum makes rather stern demands of a child's handwriting skills, describing the seven levels through which a young person must pass to get from the basic shapes and orientation of letters to a script that is not only legible but "attractive".

Regular lamentations over new evidence that the system isn't working are met with stern demands from professional educators that the real issue be faced, namely the need to spend more money, mostly on them.

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

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.

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

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".

With its stern demand for training and technique, Fame is supposedly about becoming well-known based on real talent and achievement – not just crass reality TV and having your own Facebook page.