English: as stratified as a sedimentary rock faceGerman translation: festgefahren in ihren Standesurteilen und Klassenbewusstsein 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | English term or phrase: | as stratified as a sedimentary rock face | | German translation: | festgefahren in ihren Standesurteilen und Klassenbewusstsein | | Entered by: | Ingeborg Gowans |
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Margaret Thatcher's biography | | English term or phrase: as stratified as a sedimentary rock face | | Grantham, like many English towns of the day, was a world of its own, as stratified as a sedimentary rock face. |
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| unverrueckbar wie ein Felsen
Explanation:
I gather from the context that the idea here is: a town that is completely unaffected by change and is inflexible in many ways...
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Note added at 4 hrs (2006-08-29 20:17:41 GMT)
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o.k. My comment is a bit off, I guess; I should have stated more clearly the rigid class structure that was prevalent
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| festgefahren in ihren Standesurteilen und Klassenbewusstsein
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I did see the implied meaning here and I am changing my answer
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