Sentence examples for sternly announce from inspiring English sources

Critics who are so airily humorous and drily detached the rest of the year will sternly announce that they are actually pretty angry or upset that their personal favourite hasn't been nominated.

Cassandro sternly announced that no tequila would be dispensed until after the show.

"This is an essay in Marxist formalism," the preface sternly announces.

A sign at each entrance sternly announced: "Rice, water pistols and lighters are not allowed in the auditorium".

Also defeated: Tim James, a candidate for governor who made a splash with an ad in which he spoke to an invisible immigrant and sternly announced: "This is Alabama.

A second resident jumped in to defend the operation and the DeCoster family, which runs it, sternly announcing that any troubles ought not be discussed aloud.

Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) came under pressure to hold a proper inquiry, and evidence of more executions in the last days of fighting was sternly announced.

"You will stay buckled in your seats for the final 30 minutes of our approach to Reagan airport!" the pilot sternly announces to passengers, making the new routine for the trip to the nation's capital seem like a voyage to the Forbidden City.

However, two weeks after Lehman Brothers went bust in 2008, George Osborne took to the rostrum at his party's conference and reverted to Tory type, sternly announcing that "borrowing is out of control", and – recalling an establishment phrase from the Depression – promising to "put sound money first".

After a worrying opinion poll, Cameron will announce sternly the Institute for Money and Spending has predicted if we leave, by 2018 everyone in Britain will be a cannibal.

Bowling is taken very seriously in Skegness, and there are signs announcing sternly: "This is a crown green".