Word: sturdier
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...such excuses won't fly in Europe, where miles of smooth-riding, durable autobahns and auto routes put American roadways to shame. European highways actually carry more traffic and considerably heavier truck weights than U.S. roads, yet they are smoother and far sturdier. European highways are designed by their builders to last 40 years; the projected life of American roads is half as long...
...Correspondents touring the road at week's end found mile after mile of blasted, twisted, burned, shattered tanks, trucks and other vehicles, many still incongruously carrying loot from Kuwait City: children's toys, carpets, television sets. Those Iraqi soldiers who reached the Euphrates threw up pontoon bridges to replace sturdier spans that had been destroyed by bombing; when more bombs wrecked the pontoon bridges too, some desperate troops crossed by walking along earthen dams...
...that is so, the European economy appears much sturdier than it was during the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, when the E.C. suffered disarray. Moreover, although a severe U.S. recession would not leave Europe unscathed, the transatlantic economies are no longer so closely tied...
...passed almost unnoticed in the political culture of Massachusetts, would have a different resonance when replayed in the political culture of the country as a whole. The second purpose of the pledge attack was to restate an old Republican Party theme: the G.O.P.'s patriotism is somehow a sturdier affair than the Democrats'. It may be a slander, but it's something Republicans have been saying or implying since...
...presidential statement included an admission that the yearlong program "clearly has not done what we intended for it to do" to end apartheid. Reagan also held out the possibility of additional actions. But they will have to be substantial if the President hopes to head off the sturdier sanctions that Congress is expected to pass in the next few weeks...