bring into line
Example Sentences
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He is believed to have dispatched his own men to Lebanon to bring into line pockets of Hizballah, including those loyal to Obeid, that still support Mohtashami.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others so hard to bring into line, so glad of an excuse for absence, so difficult to interest, so fitful and unconcerned.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
The economic and fraternal features of federation appeal to the public and bring into line people who did not patronize either church before.”
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Gill, Charles Otis
In this connection we may well bring into line a remarkable group of phenomena concerning which much evidence has now accumulated.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
