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The next challenge is a sterner one, even if the South Africans are having a tough time in Sri Lanka.
The actors of today are simply too pretty and too vacant to depict the men and women of sterner days and stricter moral codes.
It will take sterner tests before we see the true mettle of these Mayo players.
Many thought so and believed that New Zealand, a tough and uncompromising side would provide a much sterner examination.
Mr Hague took a sterner approach to dissent by moving party policy to the right and banishing dissenters from the front bench.
Obviously, this was a sterner test but the essence of golf required was very similar to those courses.
There is no sterner or more assiduous newshawk to be found on the demanding beat than yours truly.
But then the fictional President Bartlett and the real Baroness Thatcher are made of sterner stuff than happy-clappy trendy vicars.
We thought this would be a stern challenge, even sterner than the Lions games.
Not a good sign, to be sure, but the rest of us were made of sterner stuff.
At your age, your Grandmother and Father were made of sterner stuff and showed more consideration for their future role.
But the elite athletes of the ancient world, it seems, were made of sterner stuff.
Livy kept fidgeting, and I knew she was dying to talk about Haley, but Noelle was made of sterner stuff.
But Jeanne is made of sterner stuff than me, so head over there if you think you can bear to read the most recent developments.
But from ahead the sounds of heavy artillery fire suggested that sterner opposition was to come.
But selling part of Poste, which is Italy's biggest employer with 140,000 staff, will be a sterner test.
To him disappointment means little, he is made of sterner stuff.
However, Bolloré may be made of sterner stuff. The broader question is where electric cars, notoriously slow to gain adherents, are heading.
Thankfully, our medieval forbears were made of sterner stuff.
You will be a sterner critic than are those who pass judgment on your work.
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Here, therefore, is to be found an even deeper fear of Italianism, and here still sterner methods are employed to stamp it out.
There was a sort of pride in his own higher type of devotion, his sterner passion.
They awaited the touch of sterner forces than those of man for their changes.
Had he been a man of sterner purposes I might have been uneasy and on my guard.
In a sterner kind, that of the statues in the sacristy of St. Lorenzo equals it, and there again by incompletion.
His countenance, says orrery, could be terribly expressive of the sterner passions.
He was rid of Mrs. Hallam, if face to face with a sterner problem.
Nor did he neglect the sterner duties of life while following the bent of his inclination toward the solving of the mystery of his library.
His school of life had been sterner, and he was himself of sterner stuff.
Some dread forewarning of a sterner fate seemed to hang above him.
With the coming of daylight a sterner spirit of inquiry came upon him.
Defarge, who had been uneasily biting his thumb-nail and looking at her, collected his face into a sterner expression.
I went back to the room, and found Van Helsing looking at poor Lucy, and his face was sterner than eve.
Deep ravines, in various directions, gave an air of still sterner solemnity to the scene.
Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I meant it for the best.
There is no practical reason for any sterner requirement than that.
But he hardened his heart and waited, the lines deepening, the mouth and eyes growing sterner and firmer, and the face aging with the hours.
Under his slouched hat there was a sterner face than there was wont to be.
Jane Clayton was of sterner stuff than that which bends in spineless terror before danger.
He would be a harder, sterner man, not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim.
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