A leather-bound or heavy card notebook is the most sturdy and can take lots of abuse in a backpack or briefcase, whereas a spiral-bound notebook, while not as robust, is easy to keep open.
When politicians say it, they do so under the auspices of appealing to our best, most sturdy and unflappable natures.
On paper, Entourage, based on the hit HBO show, appeared to be the most commercially sturdy of the trio.
"Yesterday, a new America," Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, proclaimed to a hall filled with about a thousand attendees, most of them sturdy men in dark suits.
Given that they're starting the shows at 8.30pm, there's also the very real chance of temperatures falling beneath what even the thickest of blankets, most potent of tipples and sturdiest of British dispositions can cope with.
The fourteenth floor, where the top executives have their offices and hold many of their conferences and eat most of their meals, smacks of sturdier days — a time when business was business and businessmen were businessmen.
That turns out to be fine: on most of the rest of this album, Ms. Fiona has the sturdy backdrops that her knowing and slightly husky voice needs.
Gillian Hamilton, the medical director of Beatitudes, told me that Beck, who is physically sturdier than most of the residents, is her biggest challenge.
Few realize that most of the furniture — sturdier, if less stylish, than globalized alternatives like Ikea — is made not far away, in Queens.
Among the group of 30 people who would eventually seek refuge in Cazeau's house – a modest two-storey building that was sturdier than most of the makeshift shacks in Sainte-Hélène – were men, women and children, the youngest just two years old.
