stay in line

Doug, the Warren resident, said adding that pressure from his union leadership to stay in line with Democrats had turned him off.

As Harvard professor Brandon Terry, who has studied the aesthetics and sociology of hip-hop and Black youth cultures, told me, Trump’s grants of clemency “feed that kind of heroic, solidaristic picture of him as a strong man dispensing favor to people who stay in line.”

“I needed to get a push from the 5,” Hamlin said, “but I knew he wasn’t going to stay in line. He was going to go for the win.”

Each student was paired with a partner so that one could stay in line and the other could go to class, get something to eat or sleep in their own bed, if desired.

All he needs is for everyone to stay in line with the script he’s still working out on the fly.