(a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
(a.) Strong; firm; compact.
(a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
(a.) Able to withstand the cold of winter.
(n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty drug-free patients (12 women and 8 men) meeting DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder were given the Kobasa Hardiness Questionnaire, which contains subscales measuring feelings of powerlessness, security, and alientation.
(2) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) A heat source contained in a modified Hardy-Wolff-Goodell dolorimeter was used as a stimulus to produce pain on the posterolateral aspects of the left forearms of volunteer subjects.
(5) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.
(8) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(9) The number of people in the group corresponded to the theoretical number of heterozygotes in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg equation, suggesting that sucrase deficiency is recessively inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion.
(10) The study findings did not support the buffering effects of hardiness in the presence of greater amounts of stress.
(11) Vegetation is low, widely spaced and hardy, most of it armed with spines.
(12) The favorable morphology and hardiness in organ culture of this preparation have permitted a wide range of electrophysiological, cellular, and molecular studies.
(13) Departures from the Hardy-Weinberg expectations, indicating an excess of heterokaryotypes, were noted and critically analysed by comparing samples obtained simultaneously in the same locality from different cow sheds, from different sections of the same cow shed and from night and day catches in the same cow shed.
(14) The distribution of the Blast-1 genotypes in the present study was concordant with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (p greater than 0.7), which indicates that the frequency of the Blast-1 gene in the population is derived from random mating in preceding generations.
(15) The observed frequency distribution of individuals with homozygous NOR-positive, heterozygous, and homozygous negative acrocentric chromosomes was in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg law in all five pairs of the acrocentric chromosomes as well as in total.
(16) Over 42% of the variance in family functioning was accounted for by family hardiness, functional support, family stressors, and parental age.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hardy and George Miller at the press conference.
(18) Theoretical estimates were made of the chronological decrease in the incidence using a formula for Hardy-Weinberg expectation in a partially inbred population and applying appropriate consanguinity rates, taken from the literature, during the period from 1942 to 1983.
(19) An experiment is reported which tests Fazey & Hardy's (1988) catastrophe model of anxiety and performance.
(20) Another thing is that scientists like Sarah Hardy have been able to demonstrate a far greater richness of female flexibility in reproductive strategies.
Stalwart
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Stalworth
Example Sentences:
(1) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(2) Tim Hudson, a rotation stalwart for years, is now in San Francisco.
(3) The revelations haven shaken one of the stalwarts of Japanese industry.
(4) It is a classic, thoroughly researched South Bank Show, made by one of the series' stalwarts, Gillian Greenwood.
(5) I know several stalwarts but they are few and far between.
(6) Tselane Tambo, daughter of the late ANC stalwart Oliver Tambo, reportedly posted on a social networking site: "So the Pres JZ has had his portrait painted and he doesn't like it.
(7) But she saved a special salvo for Walker for failing to support student loan refinancing options – just as the rightwing stalwart showed signs of weakness in the first formal polls since the first Republican debate last week.
(8) I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.
(9) There is one very obvious potential role model, and it is emphatically not that of her histrionic late mother-in-law – rather the Windsors' stalwart, long-serving and self-effacing patriarch.
(10) It makes sense, with the Juve stalwarts Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli and Leonardo Bonucci protecting 154-cap Gianluigi Buffon.
(11) Although magnesium and hydralazine remain the stalwarts of therapy, a number of other drugs have potential that may be realized in the future.
(12) The Democratic Alliance (DA) accused anti-apartheid stalwart Mamphela Ramphele of reneging on a deal to join the party before this year's elections and said "she cannot be trusted".
(13) Spencer Ackerman: ‘Eating with animal friends is heavenly’ Spencer Ackerman After 12 years of stalwart companionship, my dog Kingsley died on 21 March.
(14) High street stalwarts Next and Marks & Spencer have both shed 3.5%.
(15) Penny Mordaunt – defence secretary Mordaunt has been a stalwart on the airwaves for the leave campaign, is currently a defence minister and has been in the naval reserves.
(16) Ed has been a stalwart of popular music broadcasting for many years and over the past few Christmases, he brought back Junior Choice to the delight of millions of loyal listeners.
(17) But with the UK economy now growing again and the eurozone finally out of recession, investors are starting to look beyond stalwart stocks for slightly better, if riskier, prospects – hence the interest in Foxtons, Crest Nicholson and Zoopla, all linked to the housing market.
(18) So, Ukip is a party unable to agree on policy, split on ideological grounds, but also divided generationally, with the old stalwarts rejecting the tools of modern politics.
(19) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
(20) The debut of former English Premier League stalwart William Gallas for Perth Glory in Western Australia’s searing afternoon heat on Saturday marked the first time a Frenchman has taken the field in the A-League.