The partners belong to a hardy band of entrepreneurs who have started magazines, often aimed at niche markets.

But through circumstance or stubbornness, his hardy band of Jews stayed behind.

And in true "Road Warrior" fashion, a hardy band of survivors is left to save humanity.

The guards, a hardy band of not quite human guys, had succeeded in pursuing him through Shadow, however, a feat normally impossible for most nonAmberites.

In one episode, a hardy band of landscapers and a droll narrator help a woman create a surprise for her husband, who is away on a trip.

Utah has a democratic liquor control system: a hardy band of mostly teetotaling busybodies determining what, where, how and when sinners can get a drink.

The Russian Far East is slowly drawing a hardy band of business and adventure travelers.

Yet there is a small, but hardy, band of Democratic business executives.

That certainly was the interpretation of Italy's hardy band of monarchists.

But the money has not been enough for Mr. Günther and his hardy band of holdouts.