Sentences with phrase «toe the party line when»

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.

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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.

When the Senate rejected gay marriage in 2009, Alesi toed his party's line, but he held his head in visible distress, in part because it felt like a betrayal of his friend Thomas Duane, the Senate's only openly gay member.

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

Well, those records, which include thousands of inspection reports for thousands of facilities like zoos, laboratories and commercial breeders, have been used to ensure that responsible parties toe the line when it comes to caring for the animals in these facilities.

But when it comes down to it, we don't care to peer into Marshall's head in search of psychological peculiarities that contribute to his political inclinations, his self - delusion, his low opinion of his fellow humans, his willingness to toe the green party line, to reinterpret cautious scientific findings as a sign of the imminent eco-Rapture, to fail to distinguish science from politics, or, indeed, his creepy habit of peering into the heads of anyone who disagrees with him.