robust defence

collocation in English

meaningsofrobustanddefence

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robust
adjective
uk
/rəʊˈbʌst/us
/roʊˈbʌst/
(of a person or animal) strong and healthy, or (of an object or system) strong and unlikely to break ...
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defence
noun
uk
/dɪˈfens/us
/dɪˈfens/
the act of protecting someone or something against attack or ...
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(Definition ofrobustanddefencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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After admitting that they had got their estimates wrong, the government tried to put up arobustdefenceof the country's economic performance in 1995.
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On the second count recent scholarship has supplied materials for arobustdefence.
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Their final chapter anticipates some of the criticisms that they expect and provides arobustdefenceof their position.
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The results demonstrate the mutual impact between rights and movements, and more importantly, constitute arobustdefenceof democracy as the direct result of collective struggles for individual rights.
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We shall therfore continue to need arobustdefencecapability as our insurance against the unexpected.
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It says: "deterrence itself depends on the credibility of our forces' capability to provide arobustdefenceagainst aggression".
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I tried to put the record right with arobustdefenceof public service broadcasting during my closing speech at the conference.
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It is also significant that neither of those two speeches contained anything like arobustdefenceof the principle with which they were associated.
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I was grateful too for hisrobustdefenceof the exclusion orders.
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We must always remember that deterrence depends on the credibility of our forces' capability to provide arobustdefenceagainst aggression.
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He made a very eloquent androbustdefenceof our programme, particularly in the area of education.
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He delivered a mostrobustdefenceof the duty, and was criticised by some of his former colleagues for so doing.
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He also gave arobustdefenceof the principles and practice of the community charge.
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If he continues to make such attacks, he will hear arobustdefencein support of civil servants.
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We are able to submit arobustdefencebecause of the criteria to be applied.
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It was arobustdefenceand a necessary defence.
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I shall certainly continue to make arobustdefenceof what we are doing in this country.
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We shall therefore continue to need arobustdefencecapability as our insurance against the unexpected.
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He began by making arobustdefenceof his estimate of the demand for 4.4 million homes up to 2016.
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I make a far more confident androbustdefenceof the present levels of taxation.
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