Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department also took a sterner tone. Spokeswoman Christine Shelly charged that Moscow had violated two commitments to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: failing to notify its partners of large- scale movements of troops, armor and artillery, as required; and violating the organization's code of conduct, which calls on members to respect civilian populations and work for peaceful solutions to disputes...
Waxenberg was punished, out Cole, who had what Gumport refers to only as "a reputation," came in for sterner discipline...
...Mercker is made of sterner stuff these days, and he pitched out of both that jam and a bases-loaded nightmare in the third, both sides matching zeroes into the fourth...
...after the carnage of the week and the Serbs' relentless assault on Srebrenica, hopes had begun to rise that the U.N. would show itself to be made of still sterner stuff. In Britain, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, public sympathy was running in favor of more determined action, led by an impassioned plea from Lady Margaret Thatcher to exempt Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo and allow them to acquire the means to defend themselves. "There is nothing moral or right about leaving a people defenseless," she fumed. "We cannot just let things...
...acquittal; it is almost as effective to persuade enough to hang a jury. Outside the courtroom, Koon and Powell boasted of having won at least one female admirer on the jury. Many observers predicted a split verdict -- a slap at most for Briseno and Timothy Wind, something sterner for Koon and especially Powell, who struck the most blows. Powell's attorney Michael Stone tacitly acknowledged this scenario in a closing statement pleading that his client not be made a scapegoat...