Mr. Netanyahu sternly rejected any such effort as intolerable interference.
Russia, also speaking before the Council, questioned Washington's motives and sternly rejected any authorization of military action in advance of thorough weapons inspections.
Hedonism, self interest is sternly rejected.
Murad sternly rejected this, reasoning that the supplies to take Svetigrad would have been wasted and that Krujë would be more strongly defended than Svetigrad.
My mother, whose generation knew a thing or two about hand-tailoring, would have sternly rejected such sloppiness from a dressmaker.
A whopping 72% of House Democrats voted for the amendment, sternly rejecting their president's terrible policy of interfering with state-level medical marijuana laws.
Mr. Bush leaned over his lectern, sternly, almost angrily rejecting Mr. Kerry's charges and repeatedly throwing back at a past argument that Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time.
Draw up a top five of such books, and straight in at number one would be – this is so obvious, it hardly needs saying – Edmund Gosse's 1907 tender and wonderfully comic Father and Son (Gosse was reared in a sternly religious Plymouth Brethren home whose values he would eventually reject).
"They rejected you," he says sternly.
