He wasn't enough of an Everyman to compete against the "Man from Abilene," Dwight Eisenhower, whose biographer played Ike's home town for all it was worth: "The lusty pioneer energies that built it had moved farther West, but they left behind a robust, independent settlement whose rugged population knew the value of hard work and took for granted the virtues of sturdy individualism".
"In stark contrast to the unionist discord, Plaid Cymru's submission to the Silk Commission makes a united and convincing case for a fairer and more robust devolution settlement.
The IOM, which is not a party to the deal but contracted to assist in the resettlement of the refugees in Phnom Penh, said after the meeting that it would continue to provide "a robust suite of settlement services".
"In short, I want a clear, robust and lasting devolution settlement for Wales - a settlement that ends the constant, tiring debate about powers which has characterised Welsh politics for 15 years but which has so little resonance with Welsh voters, and lets the assembly and the Welsh government get on with the job of delivering economic growth and improving public services.
Such guilt by association ignores the robust measures built into the settlement program to ensure a fair compensation system.
The last year has seen a growing divergence between Europe and the US, with many EU countries taking a more robust approach to Israel's continued settlement expansion.
Addressing these concerns through a settlement agreement that ensures robust competition while preserving the job creation, capital infrastructure investment and wireless broadband deployment benefits of the merger should be the Department's goal.
This appears to be a general feature of human settlement patterns that is robust to changes in measurement criteria, socioeconomic factors, and settlement history.
The hope is that with robust implementation of the 49-state AG settlement, the evidence for principal reduction will grow.
Because individuals' risks for infection were stratified by heterogeneous exposure to parasite-positive vectors domestically and within communities, we calculated Huber–White SEs robust to multilevel clustering by household and settlement.
