Where to draw the line between permissible detention or taking of property and impermissible detention or taking of property is a hard question. |
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As self-appointed guardians of public sensibility, these organisations get to draw the line on what is acceptable. |
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Where to draw the line in comedy and how to differentiate between fair comment and causing offence is always tricky. |
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He says he enjoys telly immensely, but would draw the line at other suggestions, such as panto or a chat show. |
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In this sense, the individual must again decide in each case, giving a cast-iron definition of where they would draw the line. |
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You can run the paradox with baldness, as indeed you did, where should one draw the line between baldness and hirsuteness. |
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Most people may be unsure about where to draw the line between privacy and security, but at least the issue is being brought to their attention. |
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If we want to be in a true sense secular state then, we must draw the line between the religion and government institutions. |
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Even if we do draw the line somewhere and ban certain eugenic manoeuvres, the financial incentive may play a prominent role. |
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But I draw the line at being so accommodating and respectful of the views of others that we lean over backwards so far that we fall over. |
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I understand that for them the end justifies the means, but I can't help worrying about where society will eventually draw the line. |
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It is sometimes difficult to draw the line between normal and paraphilic behaviours. |
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Bullying behavior isn't always easy to define. Where do you draw the line between good-natured ribbing and bullying? |
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But where do you draw the line between this kind of usury and legitimate lending? |
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I just wish I knew where to draw the line when it comes to my own personal issues. |
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Where do we draw the line between individual freedom and good order in society? |
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Don't get me wrong, I love gandering at colorful birds, and no one loves nature more than me, but I draw the line at hugging trees. |
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I may be a graduate of the noble and downright unemployable subject of Drama, but even I draw the line at mime artists. |
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There's nothing wrong with being sexy, but I draw the line at body parts hanging out, G-strings showing, or too much cleavage. |
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Once you start delving into corruption in sport, it's difficult to know where to draw the line. |
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But where I draw the line on this is when marriage begins to be looked at as coldly as a business merger. |
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Well, speaking for myself, comrades, there I draw the line. Not one step. |
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A good journalist knows where to draw the line, to gather the facts of the story they are working on and not to embellish it with irrelevant details. |
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We'd draw the line at the rose between the teeth, but first impressions really do count. |
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Let's talk about where you draw the line between legitimate civil disobedience, and what constitutes damage to lawful, economical commercial activity. |
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Where, for example, do you draw the line between tracking down terrorists and respecting fundamental rights? |
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But where do we draw the line between privacy and the need for historical knowledge? |
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The debate in the literature and among academics centres on where to draw the line. |
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Where do we draw the line for necessary care when the person who has the condition will say that everything possible is, in fact, necessary? |
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But do we need to preserve all species, or is it a question of where we draw the line? |
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Where to draw the line for criminal culpability is not always clear, and will partly depend upon the seriousness of the wrongdoing. |
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If no, where does one draw the line and how should the restrictions be legislated? |
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Much as I'm a fan of Victoriana, I draw the line at Dickensian chops. |
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So long as we agree about the marking, it is of no great consequence where we draw the line between pass and failure, or between the different levels of distinction. |
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Yet how, in this age of protean trends and indecipherable jargon, are we to draw the line? |
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Where to draw the line, of course, is self-evidently difficult. |
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Where will prosecutors and overzealous puritans draw the line? |
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But where to draw the line between present needs and future aspirations, between particularism and universalism, between cultural difference and economic progress? |
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The problem lies in knowing where to draw the line between the safeguards which the public is entitled to demand and those which researchers cannot provide. |
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He said something to the effect that we have to draw the line somewhere. |
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I draw the line at knitting bedsocks and pressing my PJs but I do look forward to bedtime in the colder months. |
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But environmentally minded donors draw the line in different places. |
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As you know, folks, I might be fond of some honking old cack but I draw the line at the Peter Pan of Pop. |
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If using a paint package, you must specify the color before you draw the line or shape. |
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Do not raise the pen point a second time before you draw the line. |
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You can't be business partners and agree on everything, so you must know where to draw the line at home and you should have distinctive roles and responsibilities at work. |
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However, there is the problem of where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional licensing and export restriction problems. |
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Every parent goes through problems and difficulties and brattiness and where to draw the line. |
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I don't mind if they have some fun, but I draw the line at anything that might harm others. |
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I draw the line at implicating other people whether they're alive or dead! |
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As a result, it seems fair to suggest that there are different places to draw the line between preserving free speech on the one hand and combating hate propaganda on the other. |
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The nature of conflict is changing globally, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to draw the line between acts of war and acts of organized crime. |
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Unless you're stinking rich, surely you have to draw the line somewhere. |
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In many cases beginning is evidently well organized, but in the practice it is very difficult to draw the line between the cases of destitute individuals and the cases of organized beginning. |
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Expressions such as jump on the bandwagon, pull strings, and draw the line all represent their meaning independently in their verbs and objects, making them compositional. |
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