Sentence examples for work stern from inspiring English sources

"Clay Bennett, Mick Cornett, the attempt to get an N.H.L. team, the arena — it seemed like it could work," Stern says.

But for the scheme to work, Stern would have to devise complex and nimble hedges and he would need a lot of capital, both to attract the interest of the funds and to allow for tiny spreads to add up.

Nitrates are important molecules because it's easier for living things to access nitrogen and put it to work, Stern said.

Should we stay at home, go to work, be stern, be indulgent, talk about everything, hold things back, ply them with activities or let them have slack times?

We work our stern winch with what's called a "soft line"—that's the light blue line we pull out of the back of the boat to tie to a barge to secure it.

The Juilliard Quartet plays music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the same intellectual fervor that it brings to twentieth-century innovators and it brings the same passion to works of stern atonality as it does to compositions of romantic ardor, as in this 1962 recording of Schubert's Fifteenth Quartet, his last.

His commanding, perfectionist works model stern principles of design and architecture, pointing the world toward a utopia for puritans.

Mr. Coetzee's new novel, "The Childhood of Jesus," begins like a homage to a book from another writer who works the stern and magniloquent side of the tracks: "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy.

"There's a lot of jazz and ballet dancing around, but not a lot for talented tap dancers," said Ms. Hopkins, who is working with Mr. Stern on a musical called "Tap Kids".

Above all, Sharp's work preaches a stern methodology.

The work suggests a stern god bent on reshaping the world.