He just toed the line when it came to outright endorsement.
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Mattis has carefully toed the line in speaking about the tariffs.
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He found books that toed the line between rumor and reality.
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His schoolmates' hair toed the line, groomed in submissive straight lines.
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Ireland, like much of Europe, toed the line on Roman Catholic Church teaching.
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He turned, toed the line, and nailed it with fingertips in his face.
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Wolf Creek toed the line but generally stayed on the right side of exploitative.
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They were sweet but not sugary and toed the line between crispy and soft.
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The oldest and youngest always toed the line, graduated college, and have great jobs.
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This was a provocative idea, and Negroponte's OLPC pitch toed the line between ambition and hubris.
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He did the seemingly impossible; he toed the line between Light and Dark, but didn't fall.
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Some of the outfits were pretty great, especially when they toed the line between stereotype and homage.
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TAXES -- In that same speech, Hatch toed the line on the border adjustment tax being considered in the House.
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Bald eagles are federally protected, having once toed the line of extinction due to hunting, pesticide use, and habitat loss.
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Sanders has always toed the line between being angry with the media and defending the institution of the free press.
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I'm not Mormon anymore, and I left Utah — a state that's toed the line in the battle over freedom of choice.
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Facebook has always toed the line between serving as an open forum and keeping its users safe and free from hatred.
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At their White House meeting in February, Trump toed the line on settlements by sticking with the position of previous US administrations.
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While Ms. Taub's adventurous score plays fairly fast and loose with the "Twelfth Night" text, several other composers have toed the line.
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The year before that, Chilean architect Smiljan Radić designed an undeniably odd fiberglass number that toed the line between misshapen egg and rock.
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Rand Paul, most Republican candidates who have addressed the issue have sided with government security — though some have toed the line more than others.
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Pruitt carefully toed the line, saying he was not aware of the amounts of the raises or about the process used to approve the raises.
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Jones has toed the line between backing Democratic priorities and trying not to alienate voters in a state where Trump has an approval rating above 60%.
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Neither side has backed down with tough rhetoric, though officials have toed the line, making it clear there is interest in a continued and healthy relationship.
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Simpson is in these women (and men), though she's always toed the line between autobiography and storytelling narrative, that space where the two collapse into each other.
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Although Haley typically defends Trump — even on hot button issues such as his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital — she toed the line on Face the Nation.
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While some countries, like New Zealand and Australia, have toed the line, Germany and France have pushed back, saying they would not exclude Huawei from their 5G networks.
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She has toed the line down the middle of the middle ground to a fault, and it has served her well for a decade, but these are different times.
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Like a lot of startups relying on independent contractors instead of employees, many of Talkspace's rules and practices suggest the company has already toed the line of employee classification.
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And Manafort toed the line of the gag order three months ago, she said previously, when he ghostwrote an op-ed defending himself in a Ukrainian English-language newspaper.
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Male and female players alike have toed the line when it comes to the dress codes imposed on them, and others have boycotted tournaments altogether because of the required attire.
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But I think this collection toed [the line between] those two genres and merged them with the type of literary fiction and short story structures that I really, really enjoyed.
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It was the first time I'd ever toed the line of journalistic ethics by speaking on behalf of a peripherally political organization because, well, these are desperate times for women's rights.
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Kono, 56, has a reputation as a maverick but has toed the line on key Abe policies including a stern stance in a feud with South Korea over wartime history and trade.
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Despite persistent calls from Wall Street to settle for partial concessions, the White House has toed the line on demands for a comprehensive agreement, complete with remedies for alleged intellectual property theft.
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The tone of Li's speech toed the line, emphasizing some reforms while maintaining optimism and stability, which is a major government priority in the run-up to a major leadership shuffle this fall.
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Republicans, forced unexpectedly to choose between standing with the president and condemning him for a decision they had no say in, overwhelmingly toed the line that Trump had every right to fire the FBI director.
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While countries from Greece to Ireland — and for a stretch, Portugal itself — toed the line, Lisbon resisted, helping to stoke a revival that drove economic growth last year to its highest level in a decade.
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Angela Abar's journey into the past highlights what Watchmen has done so well as a series as it's toed the line between honoring the source while building on that foundation with a fresh and engaging story.
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"The banks have largely toed the line as far as transparency is concerned and as far as sharing of information around tax investigations is concerned," Jake Robson, Singapore-based partner at law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP, said.
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Even if they should happen to lose a race in their gerrymandered districts, as long as they toed the line they can count on "wing nut welfare" — commentator slots on Fox News, appointments at think tanks, and so on.
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Last year, they emceed the show just days before the election and toed the line with their monologue, in which they lightheartedly lampooned infamous moments from Clinton-Trump race, from Trump's "nasty woman" dig to Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment.
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The xx have expertly toed the line between the dance and rock worlds since their paradigm-shifting debut album all those years ago, but it bears mentioning that every time they fully surrender to club grooves, the results are stellar.
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The best moments of Lorde's Melodrama were the ones where she toed the line between full introversion and high drama, most notably on songs like "Liability" and "Writer in the Dark" that tapped into raw emotion as well as excellent levels of theatricality.
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The communiqué also singled out members of the Central Committee, the Politburo and the innermost Politburo Standing Committee as the prime targets for the new conduct rules, making it clear that senior cadres would be judged on whether they toed the line on party positions.
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"Scott has toed the line between imprudent campaign-trail rhetoric and problematic state action," says an order issued late Thursday night by US District Court Judge Mark Walker, who cited issues like Scott standing at the governor's mansion and asking law enforcement agents to investigate Democratic election supervisors.
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Formed in 1980 in Cerritos, singer Mike Magrann and guitarist Kimm Gardener created a hybrid punk experiment that toed the line between the old school grit of bands like the Germs, the hook-heavy sensibility of The Replacements and even, dare we say, a little harmonica here and there.
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Team 10 has toed the line of imploding for months now: Nick Crompton, Team 10's former chief operating officer, left the ragtag group earlier this year; the exodus of Crompton along with high-profile members like Chance Sutton and behind-the-scenes names like engineer Drake Rehfeld were reportedly due to issues with Jake's father, Greg Paul.
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The group, however, toed the line that a reformist Islam could co-exist with western innovations and ideas.Andrew Roberts. The Colonial Moment in Africa: Essays on the Movement of Minds and Materials, 1900-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1990. p 219.
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A mere seven runners toed the line in that race, the lowest turnout ever. In the 1950s the race was not held as interest waned. In 1963, Branch 6 revived the Ten Mile Road Race one more time. Competitors and the public demonstrated that there was renewed interest in the race.
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A month later, October 11, 1987, Froelick toed the line at the Twin Cities Marathon a second time. Many of the 6,488 registrants were wearing long-sleeve shirts and sweatpants, but Froelick wore his shorts and a red singlet. The low temperature for the day was the coldest of any Twin Cities marathon mornings—23 degrees F. As the temperature warmed, Froelick led the pack.
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Avellana made his film debut with Sakay in 1939, a biopic on the early 20th century Filipino revolutionary Macario Sakay. The film was an immediate sensation, particularly distinguished for its realism which was a typical of Filipino cinema at the time. The treatment is the subject of some controversy today. Avellana's Sakay toed the line with the American-fostered perception of Sakay as a mere bandit, different from the current-day appreciation of Sakay as a fighter for Filipino independence.
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For the remainder of the 1970s, Amandala tried to avoid controversy. Indeed, editor Hyde ran unsuccessfully for the PUP in City Council elections of 1977, and the paper generally toed the line with government policy, although reserving its usual candor for certain situations. Joining the paper in this period was the "Ros'lin" serial about Belizean adolescents, a special "Jumble" word puzzle, columns by the publisher's father Charles B. Hyde and "The Old Man", a forerunner of today's "Smokey Joe" column.
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The Cats, in the midst of a rally after previously trailing by six points with 6:14 to go, trailed by just two when Aaron Harrison pulled up from the right wing. With six seconds left in an Elite Eight matchup with Notre Dame, Andrew Harrison drove and drew a foul on Notre Dame's Demetrius Jackson. Following a timeout called by the Fighting Irish, he toed the line in a 66-66 game and sank two free throws to give Kentucky a 68 to 66 lead. The margin remained intact as Notre Dame's Jerian Grant missed a contested 3-pointer as time expired.
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Czechoslovakia was more passive in the face of Soviet domination, and thus radio and the whole music industry toed the line more closely than other satellite states. After the Velvet Revolution and the declaration of the Slovak state, domestic music greatly diversified as free enterprise allowed a great expansion in the number of bands and genres represented in the Slovak market. Soon, however, major label brought pop music to Slovakia and drove many of the small companies out of business. The 1990s, American grunge and alternative rock, and Britpop gain a wide following, as well as a newfound popularity in musicals.
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Although it was not compulsory for RDB members to be Nazi party members, most of them chose to be. In addition to the training and development of its members, the RDB ensured that German Civil Servants toed the line of the Nazi Party.Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten: Copy circular Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II, the American Military Government issued a special law outlawing the Nazi party and all of its branches. Known as "Law number five", this denazification decree disbanded the National Socialist Civil Servants Federation, like all other organizations linked to the Nazi Party.
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In 1847 he became the editor of the first Italian chess column, L'Album in Rome, and by 1859 he was co-editor with Augusto Ferrante of the chess journal La Rivista degli Scacchi, which was also based in his home city. Between 1868 and 1873, he published a three-volume work on the differences in the rules between the Italian and French versions, in which he tried hard to defend the practice of free castling. However, by the 1880s Italy toed the line and adopted the normal European laws of chess, although it wasn't until the end of the century that the new rules were widely accepted throughout the country.
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The Sultan was irked to find the increasingly Kuala Lumpur was calling in the tune, even in the affairs which he thought had nothing to do with the Federated Malay States, but only Pahang. However, he toed the line because he was dependent to a certain extent on the adequate collective funds of the Federated Malay States, Pahang stood to benefit from the wealth of Perak and Selangor. The Sultan was mollified somewhat when during the governorship of Sir Laurence Guillemard there was intense activity to decentralise powers from the centre at Kuala Lumpur back to the individual States comprising the Federated Malay States. But he did not see the scheme materialise.
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Moreover, Kirov personally named and ridiculed Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov and Mikhail Tomsky – former party allies of Stalin. Bukharin and Rykov were later tried in the show trial called The Trial of the Twenty-One accused of Kirov's death, while Tomsky committed suicide expecting his arrest by the NKVD.Kirov with Sergo Ordzhonikidze in a Leningrad factory. Nevertheless, Kirov did display some independence from Stalin. Knight suggests that whereas Kirov "might have toed the line as others did, on the other hand he might have acted as a rallying point for those who wanted to oppose his [Stalin’s] dictatorship." Further, Knight suggests that Kirov would not have been a willing accomplice when the full force of Stalin’s terror was unleashed in Leningrad.
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While in New York, he socialized at the Hydra Club, an organization of New York's science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, whose work he parodied in Bill, the Galactic Hero and its sequels. In the early 1950s, the Hydra Club included writers such as Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, and Theodore Sturgeon. Harrison has become much better known for his later writing, particularly for his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the Stainless Steel Rat series and his novel Bill, the Galactic Hero — which satirized Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers. Priest wrote: Adi Robertson agreed: "His books toed the line between science fiction adventure, humor, and satire, often with a strong anti-military bent informed by his time in the US Army Air Corps." During the 1950s and 1960s, he was the main writer of the Flash Gordon newspaper strip.
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