Sentence examples for stern than from inspiring English sources

Other banners saying "Hebron Independents" feature 12 less formal photos, including three women, with looks more stern than smiling.

The boys' teacher engages students with comics and says he is more stern than he would be with girls.

Park's approach is more dovish than Lee's but still much more stern than the "Sunshine Policy" — introduced by Kim Dae-jung in 1998 and continued by Roh — that liberal candidate Moon Jae-in promised to reinstate.

It presents him as a folksy tax-slashing Washington outsider, and he comes across as less stern than Mr. McCain and much less stiff than the publisher Steve Forbes.

Brian Oliver devotes a chapter, entitled "Con Man", to the unedifying saga, but in the main focuses on the positives and the personalities of an event founded in 1930 with the intention of being "merrier and less stern" than the Olympics.

His speech was more stern than celebrative (he closed out his routine "Thank you, Academys" with solemn words about Global Warming)..

"I don't think they will raise rates again," he said, "but the verbiage accompanying their decision may be sterner than if they did raise rates.

The test at Murrayfield this February may well be far sterner than the one they faced four years ago with a Hartley-led Red Rose side who will be looking to seal a win in a tough fixture.

This Patsy seems stern rather than distraught, and the writers even distort her words, yet her very existence is telling.

But on the par-4 sixth, he found, much as his principal rival Tiger Woods did on Sunday, that Bethpage Black was ready to be a more stern test than it had been during the rainstorms of Thursday through Saturday.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Ms. Marton said, "set the gold standard," working as her husband's eyes, ears and legs during World War II -- even if she came across as more of a stern nanny than a patient, loving spouse.