A1 The party platform is a rigidly conservative document.

The delegates are about 90 percent white, mostly male and rigidly conservative.

Her father, Jacques, was a rigidly conservative martinet with a shaved head and a monocle.

While rigidly conservative on issues, he was not known for strident rhetoric and was well liked by Democrats.

Mr. Stoiber has the more solid record on economic leadership, but is rigidly conservative.

Nor does he seem to be rigidly conservative in the civil realm.

Mostly, the drafters spent today going through the platform language line by line and adding more rigidly conservative planks.

Yet revisionist work underlines the enormous difficulties that would have confronted even the most gifted of tsars in shoring up a rigidly conservative regime.

His brother Nicholas (1825-55) adopted an even more rigidly conservative approach towards the West.