real line
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“People are now looking at it; they are evaluating it in their own institutions, and that’s an important step forward,” he said, adding, “It’s a real line in the sand when the federal government comes out and does it.”
From New York Times
However, he asserted, "realistically speaking, just assessing the politics of the situation, it hurts him in debate and it hurts him in ads. Now Joe Biden has a real line of attack against Trump."
From Fox News
There's no real line in the sand after all of this testing, where maybe it doesn't even matter.
From Salon
In fact, jettison hope for a real line of reasoning: “I was and remain quite incapable of mounting in writing a reasoned and coherent argument,” he writes.
From New York Times
For the most part, though, the real line cutters are not people one can blame or politicians can thunder against.
From The Guardian
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