A 55-minute spell without losing a wicket suggested sterner resistance on the third morning than they had shown on day two, yet the loss of Shivnarine Chanderpaul catalysed their demise.
Thankfully, Ted is made of sterner stuff.
But selling part of Poste, which is Italy's biggest employer with 140,000 staff, will be a sterner test.
A sterner test than he has yet faced may lie before him, in the form of one of the disasters, natural or man-made, that befall the city from time to time, or a fiscal crunch that could force a hard decision on taxes (vast deficits are projected for years).
We are made of sterner stuff.Well, up to a point.
However, Bolloré may be made of sterner stuff.The broader question is where electric cars, notoriously slow to gain adherents, are heading.
That does not impede them: prisoners who can afford to bribe their jailers expect such indulgences as cell phones and "intimate visits" from wives and girlfriends.Both the murdered judges favoured sterner regimes.
The two main groups are restrictionists, who want fewer legal immigrants, a tougher border and sterner treatment for illegals, and liberalisers who want to bow to economic reality and regularise the current situation, through guest-worker programmes and the like.
Mr Aznar was so impressed by the ex-communist Catalan's eloquence (in contrast to his own sterner mode of expression) that he offered him the industry ministry in his first government.
On January 19th, he tried to impose order in Lombok with sterner measures and warned the "minority" of troublemakers that the government's patience was coming to an end.At the same time, he has put his economic agenda into action.
The Sarbanes bill is much tougher on auditing firms than are Mr Pitt's proposals—starting with a sterner oversight board and also restricting the consulting work that auditors may do.And yet.
