Sentences with phrase «to toe the party line»

Teachers need to be recognized for their ability to teach, not for their ability to toe the party line in a teaching college.

There's two articles that don't toe the party line?

He's an impressive guy and the physical embodiment of change from someone who just toes the party line regardless of how it affects my family and me.

Research into party discipline, such as that by Christopher Kam, suggests that party discipline is driven by a combination of socialisation, positive incentives offered by party leaders for toeing the party line, and disciplinary measures party leaders can impose for breaking party discipline.

It's worth watching to see how much the NRCC does on Hanna's behalf, because the congressman doesn't always toe the party line.

Stacy McGaugh once toed the party line on dark matter and gravity.

I've been warned by more people than I can count that if I don't say just the right thing, if I don't toe the party line when it comes to sexuality, I could lose speaking engagements, book deals, readers, even fellowship with other believers.

It's an astonishing look at politicians who are toeing the party line despite overwhelming evidence — and an entire scientific community of thousands and thousands of scientists.

The extremist faction of the GOP / Tea Party has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tests.

But Smith doesnít toe the party line, instead launching a filibuster for what he believes in.

From OSHA to the EPA, from the Dept of the Interior to NASA to FEMA, Bush has appointed political lackeys to make sure agencies toe the party line.

That in a way, may have polluted the minds of many Nigerians who ordinarily would have had no qualms believing that the party, through whose strength you came to a political office must necessarily be in the know of how the affairs of that office is run since once elected, an office holder is expected to toe the party lines in the delivery of the electoral commitments to the people.

They're both just toeing the party line and ended up boring me for 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

«There should be no financial reward for toeing the party line,» he said, ahead of the release of a report that analyzed four years» worth of data on council money allocation.

If Andrew Cuomo has a problem on his left flank, it isn't just because he doesn't always toe the party line; it is far more personal than that.

Doing what they told him to — and he will toe the party line on minimum wage or be forced to go without the corrupt pay off from the NY City real estate interests that buy upstate politicians paying them off to put the screws to NYC tenants.

In an attempt to appear tough and in control — his re-election campaign did, after all, promise «strong leadership» — he declared that all ministers would have to toe the party line when the referendum comes round.

Many of the people who make their living in those offices continue to toe the party line despite the obvious shifting landscape, but at best that has been a delaying tactic and at worse complete delusion.

That is no longer true today, as science has become a religion in and of itself, with those that toe the party line being rewarded handsomely, and those that challenge said line being ostracized.

Mormons are NOT Christians, but to help win an election, Billy G. will toe the party line.

You don't win people over by following a script or toeing the party line.

They want everyone to sign on the dotted line, color within the lines, and toe the party line.

Most Unhelpful: Anthony Bradley with «Evangelicalism's Bitter 20 - Somethings» Dear Mr. Bradley, calling us lazy and spoiled because we don't toe the party line is not the best way to win us back.

They're welcoming as long as you look the part, toe the party line, etc..

Boethius... as for myself, I have never, even as a young Catholic (altar boy), fallen under that spell where I believed that I had to toe the party line.

I could not toe the party line.

She said Southern Basin communities had been abandoned by politicians and representatives who buried their heads in the sand or chose to toe the party line, instead of seeking the truth.

Wenger knows all this as well and despite his reluctance to say it pubically (he gets paid 8 million a year to keep his mouth shut and toe the party line) he may well have had enough OR totally streets with the boards ethos, who really knows?

That isn't debate, that's ordering people to toe the party line.

So basically, the unions are toeing the Party line?

Despite this difference, the House of Commons contains a similar proportion of rebels as the Lords, despite the whips» ultimate sanction against MPs of losing their jobs if they don't toe the party line.

It's an open secret in Labour circles that Burnham is no longer interested in toeing the party line, whatever that line may be.

The danger is they will feel obliged to dissociate themselves from their anti-nuclear candidates, or will whip them back into the nuclear fold as a first lesson in toeing the party line.

These are the votes where all members are required to toe party line or face serious disciplinary proceedings.

It means shadow business secretary Clive Lewis will almost certainly quit his post, and piles pressure on Abbott to either toe the party line or resign as shadow home secretary.

This is unsurprising when you consider the point at which Corbyn's campaign really took off: when all three other candidates opted to toe the party line, as mandated by caretaker leader Harriet Harman, and abstain from voting on the second reading of the government's welfare bill.

«He just toes the party line, voting with President Trump 90 percent of the time, including the devastating «Trumpcare.

Given that for a period not too long ago six of the nine justices were Republican appointees, who I believe were tendentiously questioned beforehand to see that they were «pro-life» and toed the party line; and that now five of these justices remain, giving conservative decisions like Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, why hasn't the SCOTUS repealed Roe v. Wade?

He toes the party line in agreeing that Scotland being taken out of the EU against its will would provoke a «constitutional question to which independence is one answer».

Also, you say the conservative justices «toe the party line,» but last I checked the Defense of Marriage Act is no longer law and Obamacare still is.

Leader of the protesters, Mr. Lookman Salaudeen, said the APC national leader should be told to either toe the party line or be shown the way out.

But despite the long hours, constant challenges and bruising defeats, the Brexit Minister is optimistic that rebel Conservative peers will reconsider their position and toe the party line.

Political rebels have always attracted attention - even if those who gain the tag do not want it - and a Westminster website has analysed this parliament's MPs who do not always toe the party line.

The former chick - lit author is also a nice example of way many of the new breed of Tory MPs are following their own agendas rather than toeing the party line.