Indeed, many of the apparently rock-solid areas of agreement in contemporary life may, in fact, be far better understood as the products of political action of some sort.
The director-general assured the governors that the evidence was "rock-solid".
What is needed before the okay is given to farm-scale trials to proceed is an absolutely rock-solid protocol.
There is a rock-solid case for exempting these genuine raw materials.
Certainly the people of the north have a rock-solid conviction of their right to independence.
If we were to have a relaxation of the rules, we should still have rock-solid defence.
Even if there were a rock-solid certainty that there would be a decision to join, which there patently is not, we do not need to contemplate the matter now.
It could be an applicant with a rock-solid, cast-iron, open-and-shut case who is forced to argue their way through a completely implausible and vexatious defence mounted by the respondent.