It was said that colonial authorities and their brand of punishment often mirrored that of "a stern father seeking to mend the ways of their wayward children" (p.5).
What we get instead is a rather GQ-ish profile in which the author is obtrusively present in the story to no apparent end, Mr Limbaugh's opulent home is described at a level of detail seldom seen outside of "Cribs", and the psychological insights tend to be of the afternoon talk show sort: He's still seeking stern daddy's approval, you see.
As biographers do, Gooch seeks the complete circle of a life, its stern fulfillment.
Dekalb County policemen evacuated residents in a one square‐mile area around the accident and halted traffic on the busy highway while firemen and a chemical team from Fort McPherson sought to stern the peril.
A spokeswoman for Shepardson Stern, Jenni Katz, did not return calls seeking comment.
Both Mr. Powell and Mr. Annan said they delivered stern warnings to the government, which sought to crush two rebel movements in Darfur in early 2003 by unleashing Arab militias on the local population of black Africans.
Notably, Kagame chose to make his weekend speech in Kinyarwanda, a regional language, instead of English, likely seeking to send a stern message across the border.
Ms. Houghton said she began talking with Ms. Rostenberg and Ms. Stern about the play in 1998 and sought their input as she went along.
Germany may be Greece's stern banker now, say those who are seeking reparations, but before it goes too far down that road, it should pay off its own debts to Greece.
For the last two years, officials have been seeking assistance from Washington, testifying before stern congressional committees and even making fast-track oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
