The bracing weather of Canadian winters is followed by the warmth and humidity of genial summers, under which crops grow in almost tropical luxuriance, while the cool evenings and nights give the plants a robustness of quality which are not to be found in tropical regions, and also make life for the various domestic animals wholesome and comfortable.
The widespread belief in the robustness of the rule of law in Britain certainly reflects our reputation as a vibrant multicultural democracy.
However, this robustness may not hold with different forms of information asymmetry.
One of the classic problems of robustness theory involves the simultaneous estimation of location and scatter from a set of multivariate data.
When using collateral texts to generate keyword indices the robustness of any index will depend on the contents of the source text.