The phrase "robust ties" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means strong or sturdy connections or relationships. Example: "The two countries have maintained robust ties for decades, despite political differences."
"Climate adaptation," "disaster preparedness," and "sea level rise" — the most robust tie between Sandy and manmade global warming — are three key terms associated with Sandy.
It sounds appealing to strengthen communities, and evidence on so-called social capital suggests robust community ties can indeed make a difference in everything from education to crime.
China's robust, longstanding ties with Pakistan stand on their own merits, he says, and owe nothing to America's standing in Pakistan.
In fact, contrary to popular belief that politics conditions economies, in this case it's robust economic ties that have had an upbeat influence on political, social, cultural and people-to-people contacts as well".
"But both governments have managed to maintain pretty robust trading ties".
Tangible positive changes are certainly possible, but fundamental differences over issues such as U.S. missile defense, NATO expansion and Russia's willingness to use force against its neighbors, as well as the absence of robust economic ties, make a qualitative breakthrough in the bilateral relationship unlikely.
Conservation efforts directed toward Moorean and Tahitian partulids have typically operated within a single island frame of reference, but our discovery of robust genealogical ties among survivors on both islands implies that a multi-island perspective is required.
This may be especially pertinent in the case of the genealogically-linked surviving lineages of P. taeniata, P. hyalina and P. clara, but it is also potentially relevant for conservation measures involving Thaitian montane refuges where snails with robust phylogenetic ties to extirpated Moorean lineages still persist.
Robust sales tied to the release of "The Lego Movie" pushed revenue for the first six months of 2014 to more than $2 billion, making Lego the biggest toy company in the world by sales, surpassing Mattel.
Among elephants, it is the females who are the born politicians, cultivating robust and lifelong social ties with at least 100 other elephants, a task made easier by their power to communicate infrasonically across miles of savanna floor.
