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Her opponent, a rock-ribbed conservative, scoffed at her economics.

Influential in the Senate, so-called "rock-ribbed" Republicans often disliked Eisenhower's centrist legislative agenda and especially his support for expanding Social Security and maintaining New Deal-era policies, such as farm price supports and high and progressive income taxation.

His rock-ribbed public image contrasts with a history of struggling with personal demons.

But while others were grabbing a bit of the limelight in front of the thousands rock-ribbed Republicans gathered here - Abbott with his new book, Patrick with his culture-war battle over transgender people in public bathrooms - Paxton and Miller remained in the shadows.

He noted that many evangelicals began to shift on divorce when the marriages of the sons and daughters of pastors and ''rock-ribbed'' local church members such as deacons started crumbling.

Pete was as rock-ribbed as the Yankee land where he lived.

Everyone in football talks rock-ribbed conservatism, self-reliance.

Halhul is an agricultural town in the rock-ribbed hills just south of Bethlehem.

Warfield, three great minds in education who all served at Princeton around the era from 1845 to 1929, each had a sort of hidden agenda; each was a rock-ribbed Protestant and each was rabidly opposed to the teaching of evolution.

As he compared Nixon to King Lear, a tall Montana rancher, dressed in tux, Stetson and cowboy boots--the husband of a state senator on the executive committee and a rock-ribbed conservative--had had enough.

All the length of its southern shore, springing from the water's edge in cliffs and sharp ascents is a high mountain ridge, its rock-ribbed steep inclination much broken by narrow gorges.

The arrival of a book by two prominent, rock-ribbed liberal Democrats insisting that the lack of economic growth is a problem suggests that the tepid economic gains we've seen in the last four years are beginning to be noticed.