Sentence examples for stern orders from inspiring English sources

Under stern orders not to talk to reporters about anything — including seating arrangements at company get-togethers — workers insisted on anonymity to describe the holiday merrymaking.

Perhaps only if the Holy Spirit had intervened — to whisper stern orders in the Bishop's ear — would he have gone to such a meeting himself.

The Shadow Cabinet has been given stern orders not to question publicly the party's position, which the leadership believes will be popular with voters.

The result was "Horst's army" of young photographers, who fanned out with supplied cameras and film supplied by Mr. Faas and stern orders to "come back with good pictures".

As The A.P. writes in its obituary of Mr. Faas, "The result was 'Horst's army' of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film and stern orders to 'come back with good pictures.' ".

The CIA's censorship of the audiovisual feed, Bormann said, might have resulted in dismissal of charges rather than a stern order against a repeat episode.

His father, a distracted and overburdened barkeep, shipped Babe off to St . Marys Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage-cum-reformatory run by the stern Xavieran order.

The stunning seamanship required, notably in anchoring by the stern in order to come to a halt opposite the French ships, was a measure of the trust in which he held his officers and men.

Are they put to sleep?" To try to put a stop to it all, Ms. Freeman had lawyers from a Beverly Hills firm send Mr. Rucinsky a stern letter ordering him to stop using the names Restaurant Girl and Danyelle Freeman by the end of this month.

The court granted custody to the Sterns but ordered that Whitehead be granted visitation rights.

One Peter Luger tradition that has never changed is the waiters' stern admonitions to order steaks rare.