Sentence examples for hardly robust from inspiring English sources

It will sound perverse to fault a picaresque for its rambling plot, but this one's is hardly robust.

While those are the sickest of the nation's airlines, the other three big players -- American, Continental and Northwest -- are hardly robust.

The United States faces similar issues, of course, but its economy, while hardly robust, is now growing more rapidly than most of Europe's.

The report showed that sales of goods in the United States to businesses, consumers and the government inched up by 1.4percentt in the last quarter — hardly robust but not a disaster.

The Bank of England is now not expecting the British economy to grow at all this year.The American economy is still growing, at least, although the recovery is hardly robust.

In 1928 he attracted some $6 million from the Rockefeller Foundation's International Education Board for the construction of a 200-inch reflector; this was a major coup at a time when overall support for science in the United States was hardly robust.

That's hardly a robust justification for a lofty valuation.

And a 0.1% rise in house prices following drops of 0.8%and0.5%5% in the previous two months is hardly a robust performance".

Though hardly a robust defence of free speech, the Cairo embassy's disapproval of an inflammatory film was not an apology.

But once the cheering and the chanting had died down, serious questions remained.The political calculations behind Mr McCain's choice hardly look robust.

A townwide property reassessment looms, college tuitions soar and our home equity is hardly as robust as that plump bird in the hand we kept peeking at six months ago amid the few local "comparables" on Zillow.com.