What this movement towards a more robust stance on climate change shows is the scale of transformation in attitudes by governments across the world.
He saw how the photograph had altered the public mood – so that his own position, previously deemed a shrewdly robust stance on immigration, now looked like indifference to refugees – and duly announced that Britain would take in more, perhaps thousands more.
Dyson, which employs nearly 4000 people, has also taken a robust stance against Chinese firms.
The Prime Minister has taken a robust stance in the row that followed, declaring he would be ready to authorise more such attacks to protect national security.
The increase is representative of a more overtly robust stance on the issue.
The Kremlin has given them reasons to worry: the Russian-inspired cyber-attacks on Estonia in 2007, Russia's war with Georgia in 2008 and the large military exercises in western Russia in 2009 that culminated in a mock nuclear strike on Warsaw.A more robust stance on military planning is meant to reassure allies.
It is fair to surmise that Fifa won't be losing too much sleep about how Russia's anti-gay laws and robust stance on suppressing protest will fit with its "handshake for peace" and anti-discrimination rhetoric.
While it is clear that Conservatives are the driving force for taking the opt-out, there has not been a robust principled defence of this move by Conservative ministers, particularly on the role of the EU's court, and therefore, why the party's often cited robust stance on law and order at home could be compatible with exercising the block opt-out.
The Prime Minister insisted yesterday that the government would not be "neutral" on the question of Britain's membership of the EU, but his robust stance on the issue has ended his honeymoon with his slim majority of MPs, just one month after his shock election triumph.
Indeed, many of us now check that a retailer/manufacturer has a robust ethical stance on such issues before buying cheap foreign-made products.
