Sentence examples for stern- from inspiring English sources
McLean's teams were always made of stern stuff, however.
Two reassuringly stern yet affable psychiatrists in suits – Dr Florian Ruths and Dr Stirling Moorey – faced 20 or so of us, and guided us through a series of exercises.
The Stern review provided cogent reasons for why private R&D will never provide a large share of the many billions needed around the world to shift energy use away from fossil fuels.
He mimics her looking at him from above her glasses like a stern headmistress: "What is your problem?
Salford, however, is made of stern stuff and commitment.
The hearing was then moved into a larger venue, where court police kept a close eye on journalists trying to use their mobile phones – which is against the rules – and issued stern threats that they would be confiscated.
It wasn't a perfect itinerary, by any means – in my experience what parents of three-month-old-babies want more than anything is to walk into a padded room and let a stern-faced stranger shoot them in the back of the neck with a tranquilliser dart – but it was a start.
All are yellow with fenugreek, dotted with whole spices, and, except for some stern-fibred cauliflower, limp as overcooked noodles.
In his excellent new book "Winning Investors Over", Baruch Lev of New York University's Stern School of Business writes that in this new world "the lonely CEO now often faces a 'team of rivals', sometimes adversaries".A proposal for modestyAll this is affecting bosses' behaviour.
"Analysing trends in the key emitting sectors, we conclude that China's greenhouse gas emissions are unlikely to peak as late as 2030, the upper limit set by President Xi Jinping in November 2014, and are much more likely to peak by 2025," said the paper, co-authored by climate economist Nicholas Stern and analyst Fergus Green.
On the panel was Nick Stern, influential economist and president of the British Academy; Meryam Omi, Legal & General investment management; Steve Howard, head of sustainability at Ikea; Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity; Lisa Ashford, CEO of Ethex; and David Blood, co-founder of Generation Investment Management.
