Sentence examples for was serious that from inspiring English sources

"It needed to convince people that it was serious, that it would allow a little inflation to happen.

I opened my remarks by saying it was not simply a matter of money, it was serious that FIFA sustained such a great financial loss, but worse was the damage to the credibility and reputation of FIFA".

But Professor Samuelson said he never joked in class unless he was serious — that his friend and intellectual opponent was, in fact, often right when at first he sounded wrong.

Torre said the Yankees' trainers did not think Mendoza's injury was serious, that he might miss the next few days -- a situation that will be noted by the teams following him.

In "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood," published in 2010, the biographer Jane Leavy took a fresh look at his injuries through the lens of modern medicine and posited that the damage was serious, that he tore his meniscus, anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament, injuries that were never truly diagnosed — or repaired.

He said he was serious, that he'd asked the riders and staff and it was curious: I was the only one who didn't speak English but I understood everyone and everyone understood me so maybe I had a gift of communicating with people; that in turn meant perhaps I could be a manager.

"I was, but so many teenagers are serious, that's why they're so hilarious.

It's that rebellion against being "serious" that makes the movie refreshing and unique.

'For me specifically, it was the researchers, in other words the, well... more than being a question of motivation, for me it was one of participating, of collaborating with a colleague, José Mari Aiarzaguena, who was planning a project that I thought was serious - that was really my only motivation' (ACG2).

And I'm serious about that.

We need to be serious about that".