Sentence examples for term rugged from inspiring English sources

When Herbert Hoover coined the term "Rugged Individualism," he was talking about people out in the American frontier doing a quintessentially American thing: surviving.

It is frequently conceptualized in terms of rugged fitness landscapes (de Visser and Krug 2014).

Le Pouldu is a fishing village in Brittany, a place Gauguin regarded as exotic on its own rugged terms.

As in a classic Western, the rugged terms of engagement bring to life the heroic struggles and wayward charms of an earlier age.

After the folly of engaging with La Motta on his rugged terms 21 days before, Robinson played to his own strengths this time around, keeping the Bull at bay on the end of a long, spiteful jab.

The new vehicle will have to be cheaper to make (and sell) than the current "Landie" to make it competitive with Japanese rivals in developing-country markets, while being a credible successor to the old Land Rover in terms of its rugged, go-anywhere appeal.

For their part, the men in white moved on significantly in terms of performance following the rugged victories over Scotland and Italy.

This innovative "peak tailoring" concept based on the heart-cut technique is simple in design, easy to build, and extremely rugged for long-term continuous operation as fewer moving parts are involved, which is beneficial for deploying in remote monitoring stations.

While the projections of the thermodynamic landscapes shown in Figures 2 and 3 appear to be smooth, the true landscapes are actually quite rugged due to energetic terms like hydrogen bonding and Van der Waals interactions.

"Grit," or one's "passion and persistence towards long term goals," conjures images of the no-excuses, "rugged individual".

They would not be "astronauts"—a term Mr Tietz avoids but "industrial operators" with the rugged-individualist spirit of wildcatters.