(superl.) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.
(superl.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.
(superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.
(superl.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
(n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The device is simple, sturdy and inexpensive and may be used as adjunct for laboratory teaching in physiology and related sciences.
(2) We have refined the technique of vascular corrosion casting with methacrylate to permit the reproduction of physiological states of vascular tone and to produce sturdy castings of ocular microvasculature.
(3) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(4) She said the companies should already have been aware of the dangers of dealing with Sturdy Products after a previous investigation in 2007 uncovered similar problems.
(5) His 86-year-old father, Haroldo, still lives in the modest but sturdy house they built on their plot: “Some families didn’t even have a house, especially in the early months,” Celso recalls.
(6) On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter on the island of 29,000 people, about 200km (125 miles) south of the capital, said that while damage was extensive, it appeared most of the population had survived by sheltering in schools, churches and other sturdy buildings.
(7) Roy Ward Baker, who has died aged 93, progressed from teaboy to director of sturdy British dramas to weird Hammer horrors, via Hollywood.
(8) Size matters While infrastructure remains a challenge, especially during the rainy season, Sierra Leone is small and most communities can be reached in a sturdy four-wheel drive within a day's travel from Freetown.
(9) It would never happen with the sturdy 3210, weighing 153g.
(10) The significant forces to which this joint is subjected challenge even the most sturdy prosthetic materials.
(11) PH determinations by means of a sturdy, spear-electrode inserted in the cerebellar tissue immediately after necropsy were carried out in 60 patients suffering from different disorders and dying in hospital, and from 25 individuals killed instantly by violent accidents.
(12) The Lib Dems have pledged to scrap planned cuts , but their chances of gaining influence look as sturdy as a chocolate teapot.
(13) Doubts linger about the strength of the new spine being built at Old Trafford by Mourinho (the sturdiness of the central defence is among the unknowns at this point, with much hinging on the recently recruited Eric Bailly ).
(14) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
(15) While the FTSE is celebrating the UK’s recent, and unexpected, economic sturdiness, the pound has its eye on a time when Britain officially no longer belongs to the European Union.” The FTSE 100 index of bluechip shares rose more than 1% to a 16-month high of 6,996.
(16) Take a sturdy tent or knock on the doors of hunters’ wooden huts when you see them.
(17) He describes himself in his most recent work Consilience as having been "laid backward under the water on the arm of a sturdy pastor" and while his atheism was complete before he went to university, he understands the need of what he calls the transcendental experience at the heart of human nature.
(18) Concerns were raised about conditions at Sturdy Products when a 45-year-old female employee, Hu Nianzhen, jumped to her death from a factory building in May after she was allegedly shouted at by managers.
(19) Eliasson insists that the lamps are sturdy and should not break: "You can drop it from a third-floor window and it still works.
(20) The hills behind and beyond Faro offer many a sturdy dinner.
Uncompromising
Definition:
(a.) Not admitting of compromise; making no truce or concessions; obstinate; unyielding; inflexible.
Example Sentences:
(1) ACG shows a dynamic clinical picture; it starts in an eye which is initially uncompromised (group A) and progresses to one of two identifiable advanced stages (groups B and C).
(2) Bond's brutal, uncompromising vision of south-London thuggery provoked questions about the nature of theatre.
(3) We've got to be tough, we've got to be smart, we've got to be uncompromising.
(4) The campaigning arm of the Obama administration issued an uncompromising warning to those senators who destroyed the bill.
(5) His approach to external (as well as internal) security and defence issues was uncompromising, and on occasion confrontational, the officials said.
(6) The Egyptian delegation reasserted its uncompromising rejection,” he said.
(7) Abreu's uncompromising rhetoric and style are reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher.
(8) That’s why on balance we are unlikely to see any big spike in the immediate aftermath of this.” Bill Hayton, the author of South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia , said the uncompromising rhetoric coming out of Beijing was to be expected.
(9) In one sense, the government’s unwillingness to show its hand while at the same time adopting an uncompromising tone is understandable.
(10) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
(11) Although these results suggest a tenuous relationship between scrapie pathology and the integrity of neurotransmitter systems, it is possible that compensatory neurochemical changes in uncompromised neuronal populations may have masked potentially specific neurotransmitter effects.
(12) Perhaps the most uncompromising and outspoken member of the post-Soviet political opposition in Russia , Novodvorskaya died in Moscow on 12 July at the age of 64.
(13) One of the two candidates to be the next chair of the Police Federation has questioned whether the government wants a better police force after Theresa May delivered an uncompromising speech at its conference , in which she vowed to break the organisation's power.
(14) The Republicans, in the wake of their November election victory, had seemed an unstoppable and uncompromising force, one dedicated to ensuring Obama lost in 2012.
(15) For an avuncular former teacher, known for a toothy smile and sometimes nicknamed "Fozzie Bear", it adds up to an uncompromising platform designed to cause palpitations in both the Amsterdam stock exchange and European commission corridors.
(16) However, induction of ODC activity by (BU)2cAMP was uncompromised by testosterone.
(17) A balloon containing drugs will usually pass spontaneously through an uncompromised gastrointestinal tract.
(18) Some critics labelled Sadik-Khan “brusque” and uncompromising; others wondered whether such labels tend to stick more easily to the relatively rare women in positions of power.
(19) But he has been uncompromising on contentious issues that separate the church from much of modern society.
(20) The Lib Dem leader still enjoys wide support from much of the party membership, particularly for his uncompromising stance on remaining in the EU.