Sentence examples for sternly delivering from inspiring English sources
Many sporting dog trainers use shock collars and whips; Stewart prefers simple positive reinforcement, sternly delivering directions with a crisp "Good" or "No".
Such is the sad, sternly delivered lesson of "Sorrows and Rejoicings," the forlorn new play from the great South African dramatist Athol Fugard.
"What is happening here?" Mr. Spitzer asked, in a speech this week that was well-seasoned with the sort of high-flying and sternly delivered rhetoric that has always been his preferred mode.
By continuing to focus its marketing on deals, Detroit may only be making matters worse for itself -- a warning that no one is delivering as sternly as Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Chrysler.
In a sternly worded letter delivered to the Orleans Parish sheriff on Monday, the federal Department of Justice threatened litigation if "urgent and substantial action" were not taken to address widespread constitutional violations at the Orleans Parish Prison.
Because now that those in power have seen that there is no willingness to resist in truly demanding fashion, why would they ever acquiesce to any sternly worded request, or even harshly delivered threat, again?
He has a crown of thick hair and a sternly noble brow; he looks like an aging anchor, but he delivers his lines in such a low, hoarse, uninflected voice that he sounds as though he had croup.
K: (Sternly) How long have you been self-administering?
When she arrived at the hospital she was told sternly that she should have stayed at the clinic.
"She shouldn't have," he says sternly.
"No," he replied sternly.
