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If Missouri or any other American state with similar conflicts – racial, religious, political, whatever – have any hope of healing, it lies with those who are serious and sturdy enough to ditch their petrified opinions, to embrace complexity and to absorb facts that make them uneasy.
They had a particularly sharp disappointment at Newcastle Central, scene of a sturdy Liberal advance in a by-election in November 1976.
This morning, 14 years on, Wright is pulling together and fact-checking his script to make sure his audience is whipped into a factually sturdy frenzy on topics such as a proposal to regulate legal highs ("What does Banshee Dust actually do?").
Shortcrust is the obvious choice for a fully enclosed pie, though Andy Bates goes for a sturdy hot water crust instead, using butter rather than the lard more often found in pork pies.
The device itself is impressive – lightweight, sturdy and with a responsive screen, but built for voice.
In fact, three or four relatively vigorous 1,000-metre 1,000-metres for a sturdy, compact workout.
And remember, society's hard cases – what the Elizabethan poor law (that's Elizabeth I) would have dubbed the "sturdy rogue and vagabonds" who don't want to work and so enrage the tabloids – are not the type you'll probably find in this sort of office in Hull or elsewhere.
There are some great trompe l'oeil layered tops at Zara, Asos has gone big on dresses with diaphanous top layers and Topshop has done some neat and sturdy skorts (shorts/skirts).
The villagers have erected three rows of sturdy stone dwellings with tin roofs up on the shoulder of the volcano, but it was the adjacent canyon that I wanted to visit, because I'd heard about the petroglyphs carved by ancient inhabitants all along its walls.
She says she wants to be a farmer and tend to a small plot of land with her mother, a sturdy woman who speaks little English and smiles often at her daughter.
I realised, I think, even at that early age that opportunities for imitative anarchical expression were going to be severely limited by my misfortune of having been born a particularly weedy girl in early 80s suburbia instead of a sturdy village boy 60 years earlier.
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The adjective "sturdy" primarily functions to describe nouns, indicating their strength, robustness, and ability to withstand pressure or damage . This is evident in Ludwig's examples such as "a sturdy oak tree" or "a sturdy building".
Expression frequency: Very common
