What's the difference between resilience and robustness?

Resilience


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Resiliency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is resilient, but like all reefs around the world, it is also facing challenges.
  • (2) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
  • (3) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
  • (4) It has been a season where you learn about yourself, it teaches you about your own mental fortitude and resilience.
  • (5) Oral complications consist of mucositis, salivary gland dysfunction, loss of resiliency of perioral tissues, periodontal disease, and caries.
  • (6) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (7) Aware of FMNR's ability to build resilience, the WFP is giving food for work to 5,000 FMNR farmers in Kaffrine.
  • (8) Some were less fortunate, but panic has given way to a Balkan pride and resilience.
  • (9) Spanish renaissance In contrast, Spanish has held up remarkably well, due to its resilience at GCSE and growing awareness of the number of people around the world who speak it.
  • (10) Since the effectiveness with which they are removed largely depends on the age with respect to the stage of root formation, bone resilience and relationship with adjacent anatomical structures, and the dexterity of the operator, whenever possible, early removal is recommended.
  • (11) Over the last month, the company has released PR materials that highlight the Gulf’s resilience, as well as a report compiling scientific studies that suggest the area is making a rapid recovery.
  • (12) Despite all these fault lines, China is not going to collapse; it is far too resilient for that.
  • (13) This week, the resilience of Italy’s most pernicious problem – the mafia – was exposed once again when it was announced that Corleone’s town council was being dissolved by the order of Rome because it had been infiltrated by organised crime.
  • (14) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
  • (15) An independently composited index of competence from 2-year tool-using measures also correlated significantly with later resiliency, as did 2-year measures of mothers' support and quality of assistance.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m president, they’re not’: Donald Trump at rally in Washington Trump is “much more resilient” than his opponents allow, said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, before pivoting to a plug for his new book, Understanding Trump .
  • (17) I think the fact that the movement has now become so public and widely supported gives it a resilience that means we can do this and it will make it very hard for border force and the government to make a move on these people.” There were also training demonstrations given at churches in Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide, while Christ Church cathedral in Darwin will hold a demonstration later this afternoon.
  • (18) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
  • (19) While sympathetic influence is critical to the escape and maintenance of AV junctional automaticity both anterograde and retrograde AV conduction are remarkably resilient even under conditions of severe sympathetic deficit.
  • (20) The concept of heightened resilience or invulnerability in young profoundly stressed children is developed in terms of its implications for a psychology of wellness and for primary prevention in mental health.

Robustness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being robust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (2) While it is true that Clinton’s favorability rating is languishing among all voters, her favorability among Democrats is as robust as Biden’s, at nearly 75% .
  • (3) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
  • (4) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
  • (5) Despite their wide dispersion, Vmax and the stereological determinations correlated strongly at 2 mo of age, confirming that Vmax is a robust indicator of the surface area of the air-blood barrier.
  • (6) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
  • (7) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
  • (8) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
  • (9) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
  • (10) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
  • (11) An error and covariances analysis shows that the method is robust and accurate enough for autonomous navigation.
  • (12) While weak in variance-explained terms, the relationships show the predicted patterns are robust and are independent of a large number of control variables.
  • (13) The WAIS-R proved most effective with the biosocial model, evidencing a robust and clinically meaningful pattern of results.
  • (14) It moved new synthetic drugs from a legal grey area to a well-defined and robust regulatory framework.
  • (15) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.” British car sales zoom ahead, but for how long?
  • (16) While robust discussions are under way across the nation, in Congress, and at the White House, the question for this court is whether the government's bulk telephony metadata program is lawful.
  • (17) In these studies, disruption of cholinergic transmission produced robust impairments that increased with retention interval duration, but could be observed even at the shortest intervals tested.
  • (18) Next to robust performance, the most attractive feature of the controller is its capability to optimize the quantity of infused medication without introducing a bias in the blood pressure level; a problem that existed in some of the other adaptive control strategies that have been proposed previously.
  • (19) Tools for this are beginning to emerge, but further work to provide solutions and evidence to develop a robust foundation for managing uncertainty is required.
  • (20) Legislation is in place to ban so called ‘legal highs’ and we will continue to work with police to disrupt supply chains and take robust action against anyone found supplying or using new psychoactive substances in prisons.