But Y Polyn does win accolades for robust country cooking and down-at-home style.
A mix of chicken breast, potatoes and sweet-hot sausage put the robust country rusticity in pollo rustico.
The situation is very difficult, essentially because the DR is a poor, but robust country, whereas Haiti is a complete economic basket case strongly dependent on foreign aid.
Germany is the most robust country in the euro zone today largely because it imposed painful measures for nearly a decade to improve competitiveness.
Evacuee Will, "thin and sickly looking, pale with limp sandy hair and dull grey eyes", is slowly turned into a bouncing, robust country boy by the gruff but tender administrations of Mister Tom (who sparks back to life himself as he cares for the abused Will).
I imagine that there just aren't enough troops on hand to do some robust, country-wide security mission.
"We want to have a vibrant economy where fossil fuels, where any type of energy development or consumption, as a leading economic indicator, says, 'This is a robust country,' " he said.
They are already helping to weaken growth in Germany and once-robust countries like France, both of which are seeing their exports to other European countries suffer.
The region is "probably the single most robust area in the country economically," he said.
"These increased concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause weather disasters that will work against everyone's best hope for robust development in emerging countries," Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a Tufts University economist and a great-granddaughter, told shareholders, "while also increasing the vulnerability of the poor in the rich countries.
But demands for justice are robust, and countries that have held former leaders accountable have in most cases come away stronger.
