Since the unrest began, the Government has been sternly announcing crackdowns, only to balk before the actions can be carried out.

His missionary teachers sternly announced the message that deviation from normality was a sin against the Emperor.

"Susan," he announced sternly, "I want you to go into the water."

"You're not going anywhere until you tell me where you're going, buster," she announced sternly, though Al detected a hint of nervousness.

With what struck his colleagues as excessive zeal, Mr. Cheney sternly announced a 48-hour information blackout.

"I'll have my mechanic look at it as well," Blythe announced sternly from the sidewalk.

He ate no supper, but later, as the moon was rising, he announced sternly: "I shall not go to bed till I discover what evil is afoot."

Before some thirty of his former peers, gathered upstairs over styrofoam coffee and canned Coke in the hotel's Mark Twain Suite, Bloodaxe sternly announced some home truths of modern computer security.

"The prisoner will kneel to hear the judgment of the court," Emdahl announced sternly.

Hal, Falstaff announces sternly, you have corrupted me.