McCarthy helped create the modern Democratic Party in Wisconsin by infuriating progressive Republicans, imagining that he could build a national platform by cultivating an image as a sternly uncompromising leader willing to attack anyone who stood in his way.
When Dickey replied sternly to this attack, though, Wright collapsed into contrition and self-reproach.
WASHINGTON — Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, according to senior military and government officials.
He said, "My father looked at me sternly with that look I would learn to know so well, and said, 'Justin, never attack the individual.
Mr. Forrester has been running a one-note campaign attacking Mr. Torricelli's integrity, and reminding voters that their senator was recently sternly admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee.
She sternly told him — and, by extension, her other Democratic opponents — that they risked playing into the hands of Republicans and losing the presidency in 2008 by fiercely attacking one of their own.
"You attack, attack, attack.
On Tuesday, after months of official silence, the F.B.I. responded sternly to Mr. Street's attacks during last year's campaign.
In a key speech on Monday she spoke sternly about Gaza, promising more attacks and ruling out any chance of a negotiated settlement with Hamas.
On one occasion he rebuked an abbot so sternly that the abbot suffered a fatal heart attack.
