Many people in retailing believe solid gates actually invite crime by giving a block a disheveled, uncared-for appearance.
Immersed in Washington's culture of scandal, reporters refused to believe solid evidence that the plant really was manufacturing a deadly nerve agent.
In his review of Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon's book, "The Age of Sacred Terror" (Nov. 3), Evan Thomas refers to "the ever-cynical press," whose "reporters refused to believe solid evidence" that the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant subjected to an American cruise missile attack in 1998 "really was manufacturing a deadly nerve agent".
In an era of robots, aspirational cyborgs, and regenerative biology, it's comforting to believe solid lines can be drawn between man and machine, the organic and the synthetic, the living and the dead.
In return, the union would not use what it believes are solid grounds to contest contraction in court.
Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: "The JRF believes that solid evidence has to be the driver for good policy.
He rubbed it, he swung it and he told O'Neill that he did not believe how solid the barrel was.
Doesn't have to be quantity, but it does need to be, I believe, some solid quality time.
It would have a strong claim to join a successor currency union, perhaps a 'northern' euro with Germany and others that believe in solid fiscal discipline.
California Democrats won all eight statewide offices, but many of the races were closer than expected and state Republican officials said they believed the solid Democratic dominance was showing fissures.
