Sentence examples for stiff reminder from inspiring English sources

Leaping over bales of hay was fun, but slogging through the back stretch thick with mud was a stiff reminder that I was no thoroughbred.

Whatever it is, it reportedly led to a stiff reminder from David Cameron that Gove, the chief whip, should henceforth leave his phone outside.

Angus Campbell head of market analysis at Capital Spreads, said: [The warning from the eurozone] acted as a stiff reminder to investors that the eurozone crisis is far from over and any buyers that were basking in the euphoria of an Obama victory were swiftly brushed aside.

A spokesman for the Stakeholder Democracy Network in Lagos, which works to empower those in communities affected by the oil companies' activities, said: "The response to the spill in the United States should serve as a stiff reminder as to how far spill management in Nigeria has drifted from standards across the world".

They were given a stiff reminder two days ago after they suffered a two-wicket defeat in their warm-up match against a Cricket Australia Women's Representative XI, but took control at key moments at the MCG.

Many saw it as a stiff reminder from the royals that Northern Ireland is still theirs and British.

They provide a stiff but effective reminder that in China's political system—"a people's democratic dictatorship"—it is the dictatorship bit that counts.This bout of repression, however, may reflect more than the usual cycle.

Their stiff readings are a reminder that "On the Bowery" belongs to a time when aspirations of absolute purity had not yet overwhelmed the documentary.

Mr. McCain, as many Republicans acknowledge, looks his age, with his shock of bright-white hair, a face scarred by skin cancer and a stiff posture that is a reminder of the torture he suffered in a Hanoi prison.

After repairs, and a stern reminder from the Royal Society in London about the importance of maintaining a stiff upper lip, the terrified astronomers set sail again.

Plus, the stiff, cardboard applicator will leave scratches inside of your vagina that are a lasting reminder of how badly that douchebag, and the government, is fucking you over!