Sentence examples for robust refusal from inspiring English sources
With their robust refusal to pack flat, they seem like a chapter from a different story.
It is not so much that Mr. Herman -- who suffers, remarkably, from no major health problems in spite of a robust refusal to give up his favorite foods, salami and pickles -- is worried about whether the business will survive.
A few years ago Mr Howard could get away with his robust refusal to sign up to the Kyoto protocol, to hobnob with Al Gore or do anything that might damage Australia's booming coal industry.
The AU's robust refusal this year to endorse a coup in Togo, after President Gnassingbé Eyadéma died (and his son tried to take over), led to an election, though its fairness was disputed and it resulted in the same son becoming president.
Oil prices have been hit by a combination of falling global demand in the wake of China's economic slowdown; oversupply caused by the oil cartel Opec's refusal to cut output and robust US shale production; and the strong US dollar.
As refusal was relatively common, we used modified Poisson regression with robust variance estimation to estimate the relative risk (RR) as a measure of association for each risk factor under consideration and risk of refusal [ 24].
In contrast, some of the variables that were presenting a less robust association with earnings, like "skipped test items", "non-attempted test items" and background questionnaire "refusals" now exhibit an even weaker association.
