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• s  abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps
  the rock-ribbed coast of Maine
• s  tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated
  rock-ribbed republican

• The towering obstacle between McCain and victory is not so much his rivals for the nomination but the suspicion long held by many Republicans, especially rock-ribbed conservatives .
• While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and Carver or the high-concept contraptions of the metafictionists, Updike conducted his pursuit of .
• When the first tremors began in the parched, rock-ribbed mountains of western Sicily last week, most of the 3,000 people of Salaparuta took refuge on the slopes just below their .

• rockbound
• die-hard

News & Articles

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• Further leaps of faith
  Pastor Roger Galstad displayed remarkable agility in his opinion column on Feb. 22. (Believing we evolved from apes requires a strong leap of faith). The pastor stoutly defended his rock-ribbed biblical fundamentalism while invoking the 20th century sciences of molecular biology (DNA), public opinion polling, and radioactive carbon dating. Having thus denied evolution, he went on to deny man ...
  March 13, 2014 - Leader-Telegram

Quotes

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• Michele Bachmann in Washington Post
  Two years from now, Obama will be a one-term president,Bachmann said, "because we are going to elect the boldest, strongest, most courageous, rock-ribbed, constitutional conservative president this country has ever seen."
• Bill Leonard in Dallas Morning News
  If this experience is taking place in a rock-ribbed conservative town like Fort Worth, then it's everywhere,said Dr. Leonard, who has preached at Broadway Baptist.
• Ed Rendell in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  He is a rock-ribbed conservative who believes in benefiting the rich and the powerful corporations, not in benefiting ordinary Pennsylvanians,Rendell said. "Barack Obama is the best hope -- and he's a terrific hope -- for economic fairness...