into line

idiom

: into a state of agreement or cooperation
It was difficult to get/bring everyone into line.

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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 That level of cut would bring the club back into line with its staffing levels of more than a decade ago, with 696 employees at the end of the 2011-12 season. Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for into line

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“Into line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/into%20line. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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