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Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.”

Mr. Jones, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, delivers a stern warning on where the U.S. now stands vis-à-vis its closest competitor, Communist China.

She's stern and severe, with a dark side viewers hadn't previously seen, but also silly, camp and warm - always seeming to be genuinely on the side of the contestants.

The stern appearance of Wandsworth prison is enough to make grown people shudder.

His conduct prompted a stern rebuke from the MUO, which has sent a delegation of international executives to take over running the competition.