into line
idiom
: into a state of agreement or cooperation
It was difficult to get/bring everyone into line.
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Rather than question the federal executive who held the purse strings, the colleges fell meekly into line.
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The Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
Bill sponsor Jay Collins, R-Tampa, told the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee that the bill would bring the state into line with federal labor laws.
—Ana Ceballos, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
Instead, after years of constraint, KSE has sanctioned efforts to bring the club into line with Europe’s footballing elite.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
The most effective way to pull countries into line would be to threaten to deny them the products and services of companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and to cut off their businesses’ access to the wallets of hundreds of millions of consumers in the United States and Europe.
—Richard A. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
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The Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
Bill sponsor Jay Collins, R-Tampa, told the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee that the bill would bring the state into line with federal labor laws.
—Ana Ceballos, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
Instead, after years of constraint, KSE has sanctioned efforts to bring the club into line with Europe’s footballing elite.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
The most effective way to pull countries into line would be to threaten to deny them the products and services of companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and to cut off their businesses’ access to the wallets of hundreds of millions of consumers in the United States and Europe.
—Richard A. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
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“Into line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/into%20line. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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