Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

There was a 34 foot Wheeler with Chief Bob's in big gold letters on its stern also tied up at the dock.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

She did it from a sense of duty, but she was a stern woman who expected respect, rather than love.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

The first attempt at building a larger swift vessel was in America with the Ann McKim, 494 tons OM, built on the enlarged lines of a Baltimore clipper, with sharply raked stem, counter stern and square rig.

The authority which the magisterium enjoys by the will of Christ exists so that the moral conscience can attain the truth with security and remain in it .” John Paul quoted Humanae Vitae as a compassionate encyclical, " Christ has come not to judge the world but to save it, and while he was uncompromisingly stern towards sin, he was patient and rich in mercy towards sinners ".

His will stipulated that he was to be succeeded by his daughter, the Empress Matilda, but his stern rule was followed by a period of civil war known as the Anarchy.

He was asleep under the stern of the rotting Argo when it fell on him, killing him instantly.

The reconstruction suggests the stern was much lower than the bow.

The next step was building the strakes – the lines of planks joined endwise from stern to stern.

A typical size keel of a longer ship was 100 mm x 300 mm amidships, tapering in width at the bow and stern.

Near the stern, about halfway down the starboard topsides, was a rounded wooden block about 150 mm in diameter and 100 mm high, with a central hole for a rope.

Instead, a large hatch was cut into the stern, thereby allowing the tanks to drive directly into deep water before turning under their own motive power and heading towards shore.

In China, by the time of the Zhou Dynasty ship technologies such as stern mounted rudders were developed, and by the Han Dynasty, a well kept naval fleet was an integral part of the military.

Anthony's father Daniel was a cotton manufacturer and abolitionist, a stern but open-minded man who was born into the Quaker religion.

It was an obvious allegory and stern warning against the massing forces of Nazi Germany, well played and well made.

His father was a stern Protestant churchman and raised his family in an almost Calvinist tradition.

It was both commercially and critically successful ; Moore received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor whilst Gielgud won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Arthur's stern but compassionate manservant.

He was also a stern persecutor of heretics.

Bogart told the press that Wilder was " overbearing " and " is the kind of Prussian German with a riding crop.

His aggressive and overbearing manner towards everyone except his wife and Hitler meant that to know him was to dislike him.

He was often inconsistent, he was generally intractable and overbearing, and he was always pompous and affected to a degree which, Macaulay has remarked, seems scarcely compatible with true greatness.

Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings.

In one episode of the 1960s television series, Lurch's mother, played by actress Ellen Corby, came to visit ; she was a short, overbearing little old lady.

His exactions and his overbearing behaviour, combined with the fact that he was a foreigner, offended the English.

" ( McLeese, 96 ) The second album also featured very different production from the first — the MC5 now sounded compressed and somewhat limited in their sonic palette compared to their earlier era — band members later said that Landau was overbearing and heavy-handed in production, trying to shape the group to his own liking.

The work was not without its detractors, however, with some writers criticising it for " repulsive pedantry " and " overbearing assertions ", as well as incorrect citations to works that were later discredited.

Coke in court was insulting to the parties, disrespectful to the judges and " rough, blustering, overbearing "; a rival once wrote to him saying " in your pleadings you were wont to insult over misery and to inveigh bitterly at the persons, which bred you many enemies ".

He is overbearing and demanding of Mindy when sober, but occasionally turns up drunk and cheerful ( Brooks was a comedian noted for his " drunk " act ).

In a paper presented by the Duke of Hamilton to King Charles II in 1679, he detailed the grievances under which Scotland then suffered and complained that Lord Haltoun was " overbearing and insolent in the extreme ".

Their wish to live a quiet bachelor life was continually threatened by the overbearing dean, who tried to bring by-the-book rule to the cathedral.

Some U. S. appearances in that year as opening act for U2's arena-and-stadium Joshua Tree Tour continued in the same vein – Oliver North was labeled a " criminal motherfucker " – but were not well received by audiences, who found the sound overbearing and the performances lacking musicality.

He was never overbearing.

In 1988, she was nominated for a Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mississippi Burning ; in 1996, she won the Academy award for Best Actress for her performance as police chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo ; in 2000, she earned her second nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of an overbearing mother in Almost Famous.

Aunt Sarah was the traditional overbearing mother-in-law.

Hogan, however, eventually could no longer work with Hiro Matsuda, whom he felt was an overbearing trainer, and left Championship Wrestling From Florida.

Japan's closest ally at that time, Great Britain also expressed concern over what was perceived as Japan's overbearing, bullying approach to diplomacy, and the British Foreign Office in particular was unhappy with Japanese attempts to establish what would effectively be a Japanese protectorate over all of China.

He was harsh and overbearing to counsel, and in the political trials which were so frequent in his time, such as that of Lord Cochrane for Stock Exchange fraud in 1814, showed an unmistakable bias against the accused.

In most accounts, Gay was described as a strict and sometimes overbearing father to his four children.

His mother was a firm influence but never overbearing.