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stern

(= austere) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect an austere expression a stern face (= strict, exacting) severe and unremitting in making demands an exacting instructor a stern disciplinarian strict standards the rear part of a ship (= grim, inexorable, relentless) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty grim determination grim necessity Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty relentless persecution the stern demands of parenthood (= stark) severely simple a stark interior (= butt, fanny) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on he deserves a good kick in the butt are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

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United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

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His stern tone and loud voice belied his inner sensitivity and caring nature.
Silvia had a stern father who never praised her.
He looks stern.
Her stern look told the boys that they were in trouble.
Quickly he loosed the stern line and climbed into the boat by the bow.
Mary gave Tom a stern look.
Tom looks stern.
Our teacher is at once stern and kindly.
He is at once stern and tender.
Is your father stern?
Tom gave Mary a stern look.

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Hickam and Murphy need a stern talking to when they return.
You're up against stern reality.
That Jennie Cushman, she is even now under our stern!
He think he got hold stern end of cow, maybe, huh?
I'll climb over his stern rail or sail the bottom out of us.
I must be stern with you.
You've got stern and too demanding.
I'm reupholstering it from stem to stern.
Look at the stern, the way it goes up and down.
The law's a jealous mistress, and a stern mistress. I can't do it.
Stand by the stern line.
Porthole uncovered on your stern.
Sounds like she's about a half mile off our stern.
Stand by stern tubes.
Gunners, stand by to rake her stern!
The law's a jealous mistress, and a stern mistress.
Take this gun and get back in the stern.
Do not look upon me, lest with this piteous action you convert my stern intents, so I shed tears, not blood.
How's your ground tackle off the stern?
Look over the stern. See if we picked up any kelp.
You can stay back here in the stern and do whatever you have to.
On the stern there.
You must be stern with him before you forgive him, especially if it was your fault.
Comrades. - I must be stern with you.
I remember it enhancing my mother's stern beauty.
Don't let me catch you padding the shadow of my stern again.
And then came a Jewish merchant. A stern person.
Stern. He lived down a block. He moved out, though.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths. our bruised arms hung up for monuments. our stern alarums changed to merry meetings. our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Who are they that complain unto the king. that I, forsooth, am stern and love them not?
Stern, Harry Stern.
Speaking of Labcentral, Dr. Hubbell Eliot, Director of Labcentral, was discharged today from Phoenix General Hospital, only a few hours after the tragic death of his attending physician, Dr. Albert R. Stern.

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As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.
Scientific evidence on the risks mounts by the day, as most recently documented in England's magisterial Stern Report.
Some years ago the historian Fritz Stern wrote a book about Germany entitled The Politics of Cultural Despair.
Indeed, this has been the standard assertion of politicians since the so-called Stern Review commissioned by the British government in 2006.
The Stern Review was produced by bureaucrats and never subjected to peer review.
But the warning is a stern one for Kim Jong-un: China may send him to the sidelines if he does not change his behavior.
What about the Stern gang's blowing up of Jerusalem's King David Hotel in order to liberate Palestine from the British?
As the Stern Review of 2006 emphasized, we must sacrifice some growth today to ensure that we do not all fry tomorrow.
But more than a stern line in the peace talks spurred this promising outcome.
There are more economists in the top 100 than thinkers from any other single discipline, but the top-ranking economist, Nicholas Stern, ranks tenth overall.
Barking Alsatian dogs, stern guards, and waiters dressed in inmate uniforms work hard to recreate the gulag's sinister atmosphere.
For Stern, this was part of the cultural soil in which National Socialism flourished.
That conclusion, if valid, stands as a stern warning to policymakers today.
If not, we must bear in mind the warning of the Stern Report that failure to act now would make taking action in the future much more costly.
TEL AVIV - It is remarkable that a stern warning about the scale of the threat posed to the United States by Syria's civil war has gone practically unnoticed.
Whereas the Stern Review follows a tradition among British economists and many philosophers against discounting for pure futurity, most economists take pure time preference as obvious.
Consider some numbers from the Stern Review concerning the future benefits of preventing greenhouse gas concentrations from exceeding 550 ppm, as well as the costs of accomplishing this.
Liu's harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
After all, Fritz Stern wrote his book to warn of the dangers posed by a romantic abhorrence of modernity.
To prevent this, the American State Department summoned the Chilean Ambassador, issued a stern warning to Pinochet, and announced publicly its demand that the plebiscite be held as planned.
The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change amounts to a call to action: it argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.

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