Gervais's defence was robust (if not entirely convincing): "Well done everyone who pointed out that Mong USED to be a derogatory term for DS [Down's Syndrome], Gay USED to mean happy.
Our conclusions are robust if shorter duration of lactation does not eliminate transmission of HIV and consequent deaths; even then, HIV mortality rates are likely only high enough in the five most affected countries to cancel the protective effect of breast-feeding entirely.
While it is true that the British government's position is currently robust, if not stubborn, the EU attitude is likewise uncompromising.
The cross-correlation coefficient between the original QMEAN and the QMEAN score trained on 2/3 of the training set is 0.88 which underlines that the QMEAN score calculation is robust and does not change strongly if applied on folds not used in the generation of the statistical potentials.
Of these experiments, a difference between models of more than one log likelihood unit was identified in seven cases, such that our optimization was robust in most if not all cases.
LED lights were selected (Bowtech Products limited, LED-1600-13, 1600 Lumen underwater LED) as they last for thousands of hours, are robust and will not burn out if left on.
Cameron says that if the government's figures were robust, there would not be hundreds of Gurkhas protesting outside parliament.
If they were resolved, if they were robust, they wouldn't be ideas any more, they would be shipping products, a finished album, a completed building.
Job creation has been robust, with the unemployment rate falling below 5%, even if real wages are not growing much.
But analysts said the rally probably would have been even more robust if not for the decision to reprice the stock options.
