1.   But a stern conservative father wanted Guizar to study medicine instead.

2.   Gathered outside the building Sunday afternoon, yeshiva students described the attack on Saturday night as a painful reprimand from God, like a slap from a stern father.

3.   He was authoritative and fearless, the stern father Bengston could never measure up to and that is the problem every coach who follows a legend must face.

4.   Her stern father, played by Giancarlo Giannini, wants no part of the so-called husband, especially when he hears the ex-GI is an orphan.

5.   Like a stern father, Peter J. Dubacher stands back warily as a pair of sandhill cranes caw invitingly and flutter their velvety gray feathers.

6.   Once again Bergman writes about his stern father and privileged, restless mother as if they were his intimates rather than his parents.

7.   The assumption growing up under his stern father was that he would go into the family business.

8.   Now she must face a stern father, convinced he will kill her for bringing shame on the family.