(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.
Rugged
Definition:
(n.) Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.
(n.) Not neat or regular; uneven.
(n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
(n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
(n.) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
(n.) Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like.
(n.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.
(n.) Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
(n.) Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(2) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(3) The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist and his exceptionally rugged version of masculinity, arguing that it isn’t fit for the 21st century.
(4) Many survivors use it to get the accommodations needed to stay in school, while others used it to hold their institutions accountable for sweeping sexual assault under the rug.” More than two dozen states are suing the Obama administration over its guidance on transgender students in an effort that is overwhelmingly led by Republican secretaries of state.
(5) As the president of Russia's Kalmykia republic from 1993 to 2010, Ilyumzhinov undoubtedly has close ties to the Kremlin, and a woven rug featuring Putin's face hangs in his office.
(6) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
(7) Allergenic proteins were extracted from one silk batch that was imported to be used as filling material for bed mattresses and rugs.
(8) And reporting by the Observer reveals the extent to which al-Qaida has integrated itself with powerful tribes that control large swaths of Yemen's rugged east and parts of its south.
(9) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(10) Laminin and its E1-4 and E8 fragments are able to activate the ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity of both BCS-TC2 and Rugli cells.
(11) Pictures of the young Depardieu in a good light suggest a rugged, brooding, if not classically good-looking man with a squared chin and mop of blonde hair.
(12) In the presence of glucose oxidase and trien this polymer forms rugged, cross-linked, electroactive films on the surface of electrodes, thereby eliminating the requirement for a membrane for containing the enzyme and redox couple.
(13) The tone was set in the second minute when Ben Westwood, Warrington's notoriously rugged forward, left the Wigan stand-off Blake Green on the ground needing lengthy treatment.
(14) The simple design and rugged construction permit the incorporation of the apparatus into many manual or personal computer controlled oxygen consumption systems.
(15) Both offer lodges and campsites, but keep in mind that only a very small fraction of these remote and rugged parks are accessible by road.
(16) "When a similar report was released in 2009, the Administration largely swept it under the rug.
(17) La Posada has undergone a $12m renovation, transforming it into a magical place with handmade Mexican tin and tile mirrors, six-foot cast iron tubs, hand woven Zapotec rugs, and hand-painted furniture and tile murals.
(18) These assays have proven to be accurate, precise, reproducible, and rugged during clinical sample analyses.
(19) And cutting support now would take demand out of the economy, pull the rug from under the recovery, and delay our return to sustained growth.
(20) Chelsea had laboured at times without him in that first period, Begovic denying them reward from an urgent opening and Stoke rugged and organised until self-destructing with half-time in sight.