Sentence examples for small but robust from inspiring English sources

"The increase we found is small but robust," said Dr Friederike Otto from the environmental change institute at Oxford University.

Britain's defence budget is being slashed, and its small but robust armed forces a crucial element of the country's claim to global influence heavily cut back.

But there is also a small but robust cohort of heterosexual couples uneasy about entering what they see as the patriarchal state of marriage, or unwilling to embrace it if their gay friends cannot who want the right to form civil partnerships, currently reserved for same-sex pairs.

Although the number of studies was small, and the quality of many studies was not optimal, it seems safe to conclude that psychological treatments have a small but robust effect on depression in depressed inpatients.

It exhibited a small, but robust positive association between adverse psychosocial factors and HIV progression (correlation coefficient as combined size effect 0.059, 95% confidence interval 0.043 0.074, p < 0.001).

On Thursday, the small but robust police-monitoring group Stop Watch released a report that makes concerning reading if you're the kind of bleeding-heart liberal who thinks it's bad for the police to electrocute minors.

An intriguingly small, but functionally robust, RNA species known as microRNA has proved to be at the center of regulating genomic expression.

The supplementation was associated with a small but statistically robust increase (61 g, 95% confidence interval: 18, 104; P = 0.007) in birth weight of the offspring (n = 2,601).

Supplementation was associated with a small but statistically robust (61 g; 95% CI: 18, 104 g; P = 0.007) increase in the birth weight of the offspring (24).

First, the sample size in our study was relatively small, but the robust association between Sa and mortality rate suggests that this was not just an accidental finding.

Other jaws are smaller but still robust in the sense of being thick relative to height.