Sentence examples for stern place from inspiring English sources

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In particular, the "Asian values" bits of Singapore its authoritarianism and its industrial policy that the Chinese seem to find especially congenial are less vital to its success than two more humdrum virtues: a good civil service and a competitively small state.The island that Lee builtSingapore is certainly a fairly stern place.

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LAURIE STERN placed the black velvet hat over her long, honey-colored hair and grinned like a smiley-face logo.

That is why free countries must place stern limits on the security institutions allowed to function in the shadows.

Instead of having the FCC create, and vote into place stern net neutrality proposals that would ban paid prioritization this year, the FCC has been forced to punt into 2015, and fast lanes themselves remain a potential plank.

But the Sterns loved the place, which sits on the grounds of an old estate.

The betyl's typical geometric features are here transformed into a stylized face, with deeply incised eyes, heavy eyebrows, a straight nose and a small stern mouth, all placed on a very flat surface.

The heavy stern chasers (cannon placed in the stern aimed backwards) mounted through gun ports on the orlop deck, just about the waterline, would not have been feasible because of the lack of an orlop deck and the steep angle (sheer) of the ship in this area.

Carnegie said the Emerson String Quartet concert in the Stern Auditorium would take place on Jan . 7 and a performance by the Belcea Quartet in Zankel Hall, part of the Carnegie complex, was canceled.

On reflection, the pleasures of that hike also heightened the one plaintive note that sounded in Mr. Lynn's stern admonition against visiting the place.

Yekker, who is, like his creator, a reader of European literature, a skeptic, a dreamer, has no place in the stern new era.

Every capital ship since the design of the battleship in 1905 had placed the officers' quarters closer to their action stations amidships; after complaints from the Fleet, Queen Mary was the first battlecruiser to restore the quarters to their traditional place in the stern.

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