bring into line

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He is believed to have dispatched his own men to Lebanon to bring into line pockets of Hizballah, including those loyal to Obeid, that still support Mohtashami.

From Time Magazine Archive

After advancing several hundred yards, I found it necessary to bring into line these two regiments on the right and on the left.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

In this connection we may well bring into line a remarkable group of phenomena concerning which much evidence has now accumulated.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock

Gluck had studied carefully the progress of non-operatic music since Bach's time, and seeing what vast strides the art had made in this direction, tried to bring into line with the opera its improvements.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

After its defeat in the house, the party machinery was put in motion to bring into line sufficient votes to make the necessary three-fourths required.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various