Sentences with phrase «toe the party lines in»

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 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».

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

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As we talked, I realized how much I had wanted to assume this guy was just taking the easy way out, simply toeing the conservative party line and falling in step with what everyone around him believed.

Whatever seeming consistencies in your Bible were purposefully selected by early Church leaders in choosing only ancient Middle Eastern writings which toed their «party line».

Karren Brady has unsurprisingly toed the Hammers party line in her column in The Sun today.Here's her thoughts on the cheers and jeers that greeted our victory over Hull City on Wednesday evening.

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.

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.

The interesting dimension in all of these two scenarios is that the state governors are neck deep in the sinister plots to rope in the duo of Senator Melaye and Shehu Sani only because they are outspoken and have refused to toe the slavish party line of the President or that of these self - seeking governors.

Hendrick added that she received pressure from the Republicans to toe the line in endorsing candidates as Conservative party chair.

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

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

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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.

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.

I like to think that this blog shows in the main, people from all walks of life can think for themselves and not regurgitate the alarmist dogma and their propensity to impugn people for not toeing the party line!

Still, in an era in which international environmental groups and public relations firms run entire websites devoted to smearing people — especially scientists — who fail to toe the global warming party line, it seems regrettable that Spencer chose to go there at all.

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.

But the idea that the vast majority of climate scientists are just toeing a party line to haul in research bucks is inconceivable, given that such a course would turn their jobs from challenging fun to joyless drudgery.

It is offensive in the extreme to accuse someone who thinks deeply about issues of merely toeing a «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.