keep in line

It also called for the Local Housing Allowance to be kept in line with affordable local rents.

We could debate about whether this is a racist editorial, but it certainly hearkens back to a previous era where white elites felt free to tell Black men and women to “keep in line.”

“It’s sort of a key plank of Putinism that pensions and other payments will be kept in line with inflation,” said Charles Lichfield, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center.

“Of course, the religious class isn’t pleased, but they’re kept in line by the government.”

David bought a two room unit for £19,400 in 1988, which is now worth £125,000, because Old Hall keeps in line with the house price index.