Sentence examples for stern enough to from inspiring English sources

The others were made of sterner stuff, or rather just stern enough to find out how fragile they were.

The only question is whether Alan Greenspan will be able to hit the right balance -- stern enough to keep inflation in check without applying a brake to growth or panicking the financial markets.

At the time, Jenkins's case was particularly sensitive, because the Bush administration wanted to make sure his desertion received a punishment stern enough to honor the soldiers then dying at an unexpectedly high rate in Iraq.

This is the Open, and Congressional is going to be a test stern enough to satisfy P. J. Boatwright Jr., the U.S.G.A.'s executive director of rules and competition, who died in 1991, and the former U.S.G.A. executive director Frank Hannigan, to pick a couple of stern setup fans.

A murder charge and a conviction in racially motivated hate attacks and murders alone is hardly a disincentive stern enough to curb hate crimes.

Stern enough to convince your partner you are dead serious, and you want to separate forever.

He is not worried that if he does not win this week, people will question whether he is made of stern enough stuff to close out a major.

Is Scott a glorified babysitter or will he have a stern enough hand to sit Bryant when need be?