Sentence examples for stern parent from inspiring English sources

AS one character, an I.R.S. officer, explains, "We're the government, its worst face — the rapacious creditor, the stern parent".

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg played the stern parent, chiding the kids not to surf and offering sensible suggestions like staying home to eat a sandwich.

"But a lot of public health agencies just want us to be a stern parent and to preach to our customers".

"In every household you have a good guy and a bad guy and he was the very stern parent," Mrs. Taylor said.

The Times's attitude is that we're unruly children who have angered the stern parent and that we're to be punished for it".

You cann tell by their faces that are about as happy as a kid who has had their candy taken away by an overly stern parent.

Now, most companies have turned from amorous suitors into stern parents — shifting more costs, and more responsibilities, to their employees.

Her stern parents, wealthy from the textile business, regularly vacationed with the family in the countryside of Scotland and the Lake Country of England.

Shortly thereafter other members of the company danced restlessly, and ominous taped voices, like those of stern parents, kept berating Mr. Perez, who grew increasingly repressed in manner.

In your editorial you liken central banks to "stern parents who weather their children's criticism because they know there's good reason to impose discipline".

For the lucky few, there is reason to hope that life will be a business of evenly rationed suffering: stern parents perhaps, a few humiliations at school, then a love affair or two gone wrong, maybe a marriage broken.