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...such photogenic folks. And the girl who plays the militant's stepsister is an especially lovely child of perhaps 14. When she says fretfully that a sandstorm heading for their village could mean the end of the world, the young fundamentalist allows a smile to crease his stern face. "As long as there are beautiful girls like you," he says, "the end of the world will never come...
Conservative prelates in far-flung corners of the Anglican Communion, which consists of 38 independent provinces around the world, felt the same way. Response to Robinson's appointment from church leaders in Africa and Asia, the fastest-growing areas of Anglicanism, was especially swift and stern. "We cannot be in fellowship with them when they violate the explicit Scripture that the Anglican Church subscribes to," said Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral Church in Nairobi, Kenya. "It's outrageous and uncalled for." Bishop Lim Cheng Ean, leader of the Anglican Church of West Malaysia, was only...
Okhotin said he was particularly disturbed by the judge’s decision to disallow any audio recordings or cameras, and his stern attitude while requesting Okhotin’s name and address more than once...
...She’s had students who think she’s much too stern in her approach,” he says...
...colleagues such as Moon describe Hewitt as a well read educator with an acute sense of humor and—behind a stern facade—a passion for teaching and for her students’ wellbeing...