into line
idiom
: into a state of agreement or cooperation
It was difficult to get/bring everyone into line.
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About a decade ago, there was an effort to eliminate the ambiguities in Markdown and bring it into line with coding dogma.
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Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
But Johnson will also likely be pleading behind closed doors for Trump’s help in getting his supporters in Congress into line on a string of issues like renewing a crucial FBI surveillance tool and desperately needed aid for Ukraine.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
The old way of doing things—whipping weaker peoples into line—was no longer going to work.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
The studio wanted to rerelease the old picture to take advantage of Tracy’s burgeoning stardom, and therefore sought to bring it into line with the moral strictures of the Hays Code, a doctrine of self-censorship that Hollywood had adopted to ward off the threat of actual censorship.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
But Johnson will also likely be pleading behind closed doors for Trump’s help in getting his supporters in Congress into line on a string of issues like renewing a crucial FBI surveillance tool and desperately needed aid for Ukraine.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
The old way of doing things—whipping weaker peoples into line—was no longer going to work.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
The studio wanted to rerelease the old picture to take advantage of Tracy’s burgeoning stardom, and therefore sought to bring it into line with the moral strictures of the Hays Code, a doctrine of self-censorship that Hollywood had adopted to ward off the threat of actual censorship.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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“Into line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/into%20line. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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