It has been clear for a while that this will be the first congress to lack a super-authority of the stature of a Mao or a Deng who can settle disputes between the party's factions.So Deng's chosen successor, Jiang Zemin, a man who may be said to have risen to power without trace, will have to establish a robust claim to continue as head of party and state.
Because this study simply compared cloud cover with the water spectral feature, "you cannot make a robust claim," Madhusudhan says.
However, the small sample size precludes any robust claims and points to the need for additional large longitudinal studies of cohorts of patients with early RA.
Ascriptivist theories need such a theory in order to explain why nations (as opposed to other types of groups) have the most robust claim to territory, the jurisdiction over territory that constitutes sovereignty.
Traficant adopted the tactics of Rod Blagojevich: have mesmerizing hair, deliver a full-throated declaration of support for the little guy, and make a series of robust claims that he is a man more sinned against than sinning.
However, Glencore responded with a robust statement, claiming it had "no debt covenants and continues to retain strong lines of credit and secure access to funding".
In spite of robust claims of a rising continent, countries still work at cross purposes, travel within the continent is prohibitively expensive, major powers antagonise each other, competing instead of cooperating, and poverty and conflict is on the increase.
Abe has angered Beijing with his revisionist views on Japan's wartime conduct and robust claims to the Senkakus, as well as a visit in December 2013 to a controversial war shrine regarded by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japanese militarism.
All existing theories of secession include accounts of what gives a group a claim to sovereignty over territory, but to make these accounts fully plausible, they also need to explain what grounds less robust claims to territory, and that requires integrating a theory of secession into a comprehensive theory of territorial justice.
It became clear, as Powell laid out the case for war (with CIA Director George Tenet sitting conspicuously just behind the secretary's right shoulder), that his robust claims about the state of Iraqi WMD simply did not match the intelligence which she had worked on daily for months.
It's difficult to know what to do with some of Spitz's more robust claims, as when he insists that "it can be argued" that Jagger's greatest philosophical statement of 1965 was not "I can't get no satisfaction," but rather a declaration to a gas station attendant that he and his bandmates could urinate wherever they pleased, even on the wall of the garage.
