0 in a way that shows disapproval:
"This kind of behaviour is not acceptable," said the teacher sternly.
The example of the mountain division suggests that the fight on the ground could have been waged much more sternly had the junta chosen to deploy it.
He spoke sternly about inflation, although whether it was courage or foolhardiness that he showed by gambling with inflation is another matter.
Nemesis limps sternly, if slowly, behind and overtakes in the end.
We must rely upon them to do their best for the cause which they so warmly and sternly espouse.
We have to look at this matter, not from a theoretical, nor from a sentimental, standpoint, but from a sternly practical one.
The next thing is that taxi-cab drivers are very sternly controlled.
I am afraid that so long as the credit restrictions go on we are bound to look at each application pretty sternly.
I think anything in the nature of rowdyism and mob action ought to be sternly suppressed by those responsible for the maintenance of the peace?
