These will be the hardier ones that can resist the same antibiotic should they meet it again.
It is relatively easy too to tick off all the lower league grounds a club might visit in the course of its cup runs, and though it takes a hardier streak to follow a team deep into Europe, plenty of fans will be doing it.
Are we able to come back in the way that we have always come back this season?" Mertesacker chooses his words carefully but it is clear that he thinks there is something different about the Arsenal of this season, something hardier and capable of taking a surer route.
Purchases this week have confirmed my worst suspicions about the mangoes available in this country; as Sodha laments: "The season for alphonso mangoes is short, and our supermarkets prefer selling unripe Brazilian mangoes as they have longer seasons and are hardier".
This week's annual results revealed a relatively robust media company, confirming News Corp's position, along with Viacom, as one of the hardier survivors of the media downturn.At first glance, the company's pre-tax loss of $5.7 billion for the year to June 2002 scarcely looks reassuring.
Midway through last year, they began increasingly to target the ISF in preference to America's hardier troops.
That makes them hardier than many chief executives.
Climate change is improving once-uncongenial British conditions; harvests are earlier and sun-hungry French varieties are replacing hardier Germanic vines.
They proved hardier than polar bear at the zoo, however.
Though one might surmise that Democratic presidents inherited hardier economies than Republican ones, they actually tended to take over when times were more difficult.Messrs Blinder and Watson then looked at the impact of fiscal and monetary policy.
Sikhism, born about 500 years ago in Punjab, has put down hardier roots; at the last census (in 1991) there were 16.3m Sikhs in India, compared with just 6.4m Buddhists and 3.4m Jains.
