And I tend to be more stern than I need to be with patients who try to bully others, almost certainly another legacy of my own early experience.

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It will also be interesting to see if Mr Obama will be stern rather than laying on the love with a trowel as he did in Jerusalem when he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The match will mark the official opening of Agen's new ground and will be a stern test for the Aviva Premiership Rugby side with a month to go until the start of the new season.

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In a 2006 interview on the Forbes.com Video Network, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said "we have to be a partner" with employers.

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He had an austere childhood in a remote Jura village, growing up with a stern father (not to be disappointed) and a depressive mother (not to be troubled by his own fears).

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On two par-3s he allows himself to be goaded into closest-to-the-hole bets with Stern the marketer (Davis cleans him out).

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He had closed his round of talks on Thursday with a stern summation of benchmarks that needed to be achieved to establish peace in the region.

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Regular lamentations over new evidence that the system isn't working are met with stern demands from professional educators that the real issue be faced, namely the need to spend more money, mostly on them.

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Sir Nicholas Stern estimates that the average per capita carbon footprint will need to be reduced to 2 tonnes per person (with an expected population of 9 billion people in 2050) for us to limit the adverse impacts of climate change.

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