The next challenge is a sterner one, even if the South Africans are having a tough time in Sri Lanka. |
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The actors of today are simply too pretty and too vacant to depict the men and women of sterner days and stricter moral codes. |
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It will take sterner tests before we see the true mettle of these Mayo players. |
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Many thought so and believed that New Zealand, a tough and uncompromising side would provide a much sterner examination. |
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Mr Hague took a sterner approach to dissent by moving party policy to the right and banishing dissenters from the front bench. |
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Obviously, this was a sterner test but the essence of golf required was very similar to those courses. |
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There is no sterner or more assiduous newshawk to be found on the demanding beat than yours truly. |
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But then the fictional President Bartlett and the real Baroness Thatcher are made of sterner stuff than happy-clappy trendy vicars. |
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We thought this would be a stern challenge, even sterner than the Lions games. |
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Not a good sign, to be sure, but the rest of us were made of sterner stuff. |
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At your age, your Grandmother and Father were made of sterner stuff and showed more consideration for their future role. |
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But the elite athletes of the ancient world, it seems, were made of sterner stuff. |
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Livy kept fidgeting, and I knew she was dying to talk about Haley, but Noelle was made of sterner stuff. |
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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. |
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But from ahead the sounds of heavy artillery fire suggested that sterner opposition was to come. |
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But selling part of Poste, which is Italy's biggest employer with 140,000 staff, will be a sterner test. |
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To him disappointment means little, he is made of sterner stuff. |
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However, Bolloré may be made of sterner stuff. The broader question is where electric cars, notoriously slow to gain adherents, are heading. |
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Thankfully, our medieval forbears were made of sterner stuff. |
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You will be a sterner critic than are those who pass judgment on your work. |
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But I doubt it would be enough to make a dent in Bishop Williamson, who seems to be made of sterner stuff. |
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This isn't cronyism, and if it is cronyism, cronyism should be made of sterner stuff. |
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Roberts is made of sterner stuff than her hometown image suggests. |
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I can only pray our next Prime Minister is made of sterner stuff. |
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But the industrial consumers of electricity construct their lines of sterner stuff, and no one tampers with them. |
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He pats on the back young men whom sterner critics would knock down, because even in fantastic incompetence he perceives the good intention. |
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But British parking attendants are made of sterner stuff than that. |
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They will need to steel themselves for a much sterner test against Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma FC though, with the Asian champions desperate to pull rank and set up a prestigious semi-final against FC Internazionale Milano. |
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Where the content of the messages and the identity of the addressee indicates an intention to harass or to act disloyally towards the employer, sterner measures may well be in order. |
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Thatcher was made of sterner stuff than the blimpish Grocer, and eventually faced down Scargill and his troops. |
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The next two rounds will provide a sterner test of this team's mettle, however – taking them to San Siro to face Inter next Sunday, then back home to host Napoli after the international break. |
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The third-placed team at both Dubai 2009 and Marseille 2008 had no problems in the second round either, breezing past Azerbaijan 5-2, although a much sterner test presented itself in the form of Poland in the quarters. |
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We are made of sterner stuff. Well, up to a point. |
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My own view, however, is that a trier of fact would take a sterner view of the standard of care required of a public official charged with the security of pension plans within the province. |
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Reduced speed limits, sterner penalties for impaired driving, and the compulsory use of safety restraints have been introduced in some Canadian provinces. |
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That said, Obu and his youngsters know that they will be playing a team made of altogether sterner stuff on Saturday evening in front of 60,000 fans. |
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Unless all Member States reach, on schedule, the medium-term targets set down in their programmes, a future downturn could provide a much sterner test for the EU's framework for budgetary surveillance. |
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He is the lawmaker, illustrating in his own manly bearing the sterner virtues: energy, integrity, honesty, patience, courage, diligence, and practical usefulness. |
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And with the USA moving the ball well all over the park in their first round games, they now face a sterner test in the knockout rounds against the Italians in Kaduna on 4 November. |
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Both a 2011 tightening of fiscal policy in Canada and abroad, and sterner global regulations on bank capital and leverage, will create economic headwinds next year. |
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Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. |
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Feeley's mildly lyrical panache, in quirky polyp and quatrefoil shapes and with color running to baby pinks and blues, sets him slightly apart from his sterner peers in a movement that came on like gangbusters — and fizzled. |
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In addition, although the U. S. Federal Reserve has largely averted its eyes to a four per cent inflation rate while it fends off recession, its board members warn of a sterner policy once growth picks up. |
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A 55-minute spell without losing a wicket suggested sterner resistance on the third morning than they had shown on day two, yet the loss of Shivnarine Chanderpaul catalysed their demise. |
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His face, however, grew grimmer and sterner still. |
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What that means in practice is the swooning, bucolic Beach Boy-isms of opening track Hail Bop and the sterner, questing Bo Diddley beat guitars of Life''s A Beach. |
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