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One minute you're cooking the first-prize-winning recipe in the Pillsbury BAKE-OFF® (chicken thighs with a sweet-and-sour Old El Paso® salsa, currants, and honey sauce, served on couscous), and the next you're composing the sternly Mediterranean endive, fennel, and orange salad from the latest cookbook by Paula Wolfert, the most rigorous scholar in American cookbook writing.
Another problem, pointed out by the Post : Boris Yeltsin sternly warned yesterday against any NATO deployment and his Defense Minister said such a move would plunge the world back into the Cold War.
On the south side of Nanjing Road is People’s Park (Renmin Gongyuan), which used to feature a racecourse, but gambling is sternly condemned in the People’s Republic.
Chilly water and dangerous currents make this more a beach for strollers, sunbathers, and experienced surfers — swimming is sternly discouraged.
George Will has written column after column sermonizing about First Amendment excesses, lecturing sternly about the difference between "speech" and "action," and ridiculing the idea that (for example) flag-burning sends a political message and therefore qualifies for First Amendment protection.