Sentence examples for stern way from inspiring English sources

"Perhaps they thought they should show how strong they were and deal with this in a very stern way," she said.

LEAGUE WANTS WORD WITH UMPIRE A Major League Baseball official said the umpire Bill Hohn would be addressed "in a very stern way" after a confrontation with Houston pitcher Roy Oswalt led to the ejection of the Astros' ace.

Unlike other emotions such as happiness and surprise, anger has a rather stern way of announcing its presence.

In its stern, unforgiving way, it concentrates on the known facts and known oddities like the official assertion (later corrected) that the four bombers caught the 7.40 from Luton on 7 July 2005 when that train was cancelled that day.

But in an interview, Mr. Warner waved off that view with a stern, "No way".

In some circles, "national security" has simply become a more stern-sounding way of talking about anything that happens overseas.

A distillation of France's stern educational style is the way it deals with its best and brightest — a topic that has recently become the subject of public debate and controversy there.

The mayor, sometimes in an irritated voice, other times in a stern but calm way, then tells them, in essence, to bug off.

Another is to shape the vessel's stern in a way that stops air being sucked into the propeller, where it would reduce thrust by lessening the propeller's grip on the water.

He conceded that many of those affected had stern criticisms of the way the schemes had been handled.

Thomas dismissed the premise entirely, then said with a stern tone: "By the way, I like Fred a lot.