(a.) Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
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.
Roust
Definition:
(v. t.) To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.
(n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three years ago Rousteing, then 25, gained the same position at Balmain.
(2) Saint Laurent was born in Algeria, while Rousteing is mixed race – still an anomaly in fashion where most of the gatekeepers are white men over 40.
(3) Alex has never ducked a political challenge in his life and there is an expectation that he will be able to roust up Westminster to the benefit of the north-east of Scotland and Scotland as a whole.
(4) This show is Parisian but it has a vision of a globality [sic], a diversity.” Under Rousteing’s stewardship, Balmain is expanding.
(5) But then the parallels between Rousteing and Saint Laurent are striking.
(6) Backstage, Rousteing explained that this collection was a reaction against the Charlie Hebdo killings in January.
(7) Rousteing is the youngest designer to take over at a Parisian fashion house since a 21-year-old Saint Laurent was appointed at creative director of Christian Dior in 1957.
(8) In 2006, the ninth circuit court of appeals told the police to stop rousting homeless people out of their tents overnight because, in the absence of alternative housing, it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
(9) What happened made me realise how important self-expression is.” For Rousteing, that comes with the inclusion of different races on the catwalk.