rock-ribbed

Not all the work in this issue is based on rock-ribbed ideology.

"Even if you are a rock-ribbed Republican," he wondered, "is this really a good development?"

Mary, likely a rock-ribbed Republican, blushed a little and smiled.

Now even rock-ribbed conservatives are looking keenly at environmental technologies.

The scene gave her a rock-ribbed foundation in the rudiments of American roots music.

"These are rock-ribbed New Englanders who always give more than they get," he said.

It was a rock-ribbed valley in a country borrowed from the leavings of hell.

As a rock-ribbed Republican, he said, "I'm probably not the best person for that assignment."

There is an integrity to the man and his work as rock-ribbed as the Maine coast.

No less sure of their work were the artistes themselves, whose rock-ribbed confidence is hard to imagine in our ironic time.

And it has, at times, collided with the rock-ribbed piety of the conservative Southwest.

My dad was a rock-ribbed, up-by-your-bootstraps, conservative Republican and proud of it.

"He was an example of rock-ribbed integrity mingles with compassion," Thomas stated.

This may be one reason that Tuscany appeals so much to rock-ribbed Yankees like me.

Rock-ribbed conservatives have found common cause with conservationist firebrands.

But on those final albums, he completed his self-invention as a rock-ribbed avatar of tragedy.

His father, by contrast, always appeared clean-cut, rock-ribbed, grateful for the admiring eyes that followed him.

But when a rock-ribbed conservative website like RedState weighs in, that's another matter.

A daunting challenge remains: motivating a rock-ribbed police bureaucracy to embrace the principles of community patrol.

It may be that as a rock-ribbed traditionalist on abortion, divorce and the like, he is assumed to be against all change.

For a long-time, rock-ribbed, true-blue pessimist, I guess it was.

Andro led them into the rock-ribbed entranceway with a deep bow that was probably sarcastic.

She struck me as a rock-ribbed traditionalist.

Peterson's rock-ribbed fiscal conservatism was once Republican orthodoxy.

Quayle was supposed to lend the ticket youth, rock-ribbed, Midwestern conservatism and looks that would appeal to women.