toe the party line

And these were dangerous times not to be toeing the party line.

"Bands that stay together have to toe the party line.

Toeing the party line in China these days must take a real leap of faith.

The evening's highlights were pieces that didn't strictly toe the party line.

And though made to toe the party line, they are but subject to the same discipline imposed on the rest of the elite.

"He can toe the party line like he did in China.

With a roster of speakers who do not always toe the party line, convention officials hope to win the network's attention.

It gave a phrase to the language: either "toe the party line," they said, or get in trouble with its elders.

I realized that I wasn't talking to a rigid company, where everybody had to toe the party line.

Equally, it begs the question of whether Williams's toeing the party line comes at a price.

Proposed removal procedures would make it easier to fire employees who fail to toe the party line.

But Street, the free-spirited daughter of free spirits, has never been one for quietly toeing the party line.

Toeing the party line, self-importance, and above all mere routine, were what really dominated his life.

South Africa's white politics follows the British parliamentary system, which requires legislators to toe the party line.

The scientists are finding ways to ensure the continuation of funding without fervently toeing the party line.

Co-members of the Photographers' Union who toe the party line feel this most keenly.

But when it comes down to a vote, the Republicans, while stressing nonpartisanship, have strictly toed the party line as one united force.

But he was "toeing the party line."

The fact that she was too fearful to give her name was indicative of the pressure to toe the party line, she added.

The common phrase toeing the party line describes a person who speaks in a manner that conforms to his political party's agenda.

Mother Bea never could understand that, and for a Saint she's remarkably unforgiving to anyone who won't toe the party line.

"One of the strong points of baseball is that it has room for its critics and those who do not toe the party line," Olbermann said.

But you can never expect Horowitz to toe the party line which is why, in the end, he succeeded in making so many first-rate recordings.

Technical term: toeing the party line.

This journo toes the party line.