Sentences with phrase «toe party line»

It would also be in the interest of our democracy to allow for secret ballots in parliament as opposed to the current system wherein representatives are simply required to toe the party line, on all issues.

Anyone that doesn't toe the party line is the enemy.

Those who refuse to toe the party line of unsubstantiated Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming / Climate Change are evil.

But if you are on a Government Dole via NSF or UN funding and MUST toe the party line to keep the good times rolling, a truth that is contrary to that «need» must be excised and attacked.

I actually have always thought that Briffa, and to a substantial extent Jones as well, have felt quite uncomfortable being considered members of «the hockey team» and having a lot of pressure not to speak their doubts and to toe the party line.

General officers who don't toe the party line are being fired left and right.

They know these claims are unsubstantiated, but because of a political agenda, they toe the party line.

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

It is a statement, no element of a communication objective, just a demand to toe the party line.

I can work with a graphic designer I choose on my cover, I can hire an editor I trust, I can manage my own marketing, arrange my own signings, talk without having to toe a party line 4.

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.

In fact, in negotiations, they have to toe the party line.

I've seen reformers ostracized for failing 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.

But Smith doesn't toe the party line, instead launching a filibuster for what he believes in.

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

A rebellion is brewing with Katniss as its unwitting figurehead, and the president of Panem (Donald Sutherland), is just worried enough about it to personally visit Katniss and silkily threaten her with amorphous, but dire, consequences if she doesn't toe the party line.

«If you want government resources, you're increasingly being asked to toe the party line,» Auerbach says.

Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for example - he has held several prominent posts.

But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several prominent posts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

I could not toe the party line.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Apparently it is being done, because Arshavin for one doesn't seem to be the sort that simply toes the party line.

So basically, the unions are toeing the Party line?

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 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.

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.

«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».

«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.

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

Teachers have plenty of «voice» except maybe when they run afoul of the union for not toeing the party line.