"Abdoul is a respectable opponent and can give me a sterner test than Cruzat, " said Swansea's Maccarinelli.
Mr O'Neill, spiritually at least, is made of sterner stuff and might have had more appetite for cost-cutting.
The Black Caps, fresh off their victory over England in the NatWest series, should provide a much sterner test than short-handed Ireland.
The movie has the bold good grace to honor the enraptured kids they once were and the sterner but still hungry grownups they became.
An even sterner judge than OK magazine has infiltrated the scene: The IRS. Last year, the agency decreed that recipients must pay taxes on their loot.
For Ancelotti, the priority was to give some of Chelsea's shadow squad an opportunity on the Champions League stage and save established stars for sterner battles ahead.
On the other hand, Republicans, conscious of their Christian evangelical base, tend to preach a sterner morality, which means they are more open to accusations of hypocrisy.
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They may face sterner tests than Porto if they are to go all the way, though, following a match that at times resembled a training ground exercise.
But Alex James, the base player with Blur who's turned his back on the drug, is made of sterner stuff and this is his report for Panorama.
It was the worst of both worlds as a fatal passivity was perceptible when, ironically, an admission of error could have communicated a corporate fiber of sterner stuff.
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But he acknowledged that coming down the stretch in contention for a first major title would be a sterner test of his emotions in the wake of his father's passing.
The report has sterner criticism for Douglas Hogg, Agriculture Minister 1995-97, accusing him of not acting quickly enough when confronted with evidence of a link between vCJD and contaminated meat.
Mr Brown cannot be so naive as to suppose that such a time will never come, but when it does he may find it a sterner test than he suspects.
Many Argentines believe that the IMF, having been criticised for backing the fixed exchange rate long past its useful life, was slower and sterner with Mr Duhalde than with his predecessors.
While Woods' peers seem incapable of putting him under pressure, teenager Ty Tryon hinted there may be sterner challenges in years to come with a 69 to give him a tied 10th place finish.
Bespectacled and wearing a gray three-piece suit, he greeted me warmly with a natural charisma and amiability that set him apart from many of his sterner colleagues on the Guidance Council.
In Serjeh, a village perched on a hill overlooking olive trees rooted in earth the colour of terracotta, the bulky, uniformed men of Suqur al-Sham (Falcons of Syria) strike a sterner tone.
Few critics have been sterner than The Economist which, in the late 1960s, conducted a campaign against the use of taxpayers' money on a project that would never recoup its capital costs.
In the end, Nani's early strike proved enough but United will face far sterner tests in their pursuit of the Champions League trophy this season - and quite possibly without a certain 24-year-old.
These sterner, more structured Syrah-based wines may be more forbidding in their youth than their southern counterparts, but the best possess an admirable depth, complexity and ageability, apparent even in wines from "lesser" appellations like Crozes-Hermitage.
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The Potters provided a far sterner test than West Brom and Wigan - Chelsea's previous two opponents in a free-scoring start to the season - but they were unable to stop Carlo Ancelotti's side chalking up an eighth straight home league win.
The struggle, back then, was a moral one against a nagging dread that the West had nothing more to offer, apart from the satisfaction of greed, than its sterner rival in the East, and that what might remain, between spies, was a pure exchange of tactics, ungilded with sentiment or faith.
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