The package is virtually assured to pass the whole House, but Senate Democrats drafting a similar plan will face a more robust Republican minority.
In retrospect, it looks as if Paul discarded his father's robust Republican minority in the vain hope of bringing together a new Republican majority.
"A robust Republican minority in the Senate has kept many bad things from happening this year, as well as improved the ones worth improving," Mr. McConnell said in a speech to the Federalist Society.
With passage of the House bill virtually assured, debate over how best to address the downturn in housing shifts back to the Senate, where Democrats drafting a similar plan are struggling to overcome the reservations, if not outright opposition, of a more robust Republican minority.
Without the development of a robust pipeline of minority and women entrepreneurs and businesses, our economy will face a significant shortage of world class talent and innovation for economic growth.
Modern Bulgaria reflects this rich and complicated heritage; although most of the people are Slavic Bulgarians, there are robust, if disadvantaged, minorities of Turks, Macedonians, Pomaks (Muslim Slavs) and Roma (Gypsies).
Although commonly available, initial data suggested that Huh7 cells in distinct laboratories may differ substantially with respect to their ability to support HCVcc infection with only a minority supporting robust HCV infection [5], [7].
Noting that Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment and "provide robust and meaningful protections for minority voting rights," the court held that Florida could not suppress the vote through a significant reduction in the hours of early voting.
For instance, our data were based on a large sample size with a large minority population where robust stratifications were possible.
A robust multiculturalism must foster conditions where minority communities can undertake necessary transformations without being condescended to as culturally inferior or told sternly to assimilate.
