But the Republicans have said they've drawn a line in the sand on anything.
"The people who are working on HS2 haven't just come up one morning and drawn a line, " he said.
It was an unofficial stance against manufactured housing, and Stacey and her peers had drawn a line in the sand.
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Even then, South Africans could have offered a blanket amnesty to everybody, drawn a line under the past, and left it at that.
"The buyers have drawn a line in the sand on commercial ratings and the networks have drawn a line on 'live plus three, ' " he told Daily Variety.
To some it seemed like the Justice Department had drawn a line in the sand against online poker and set a two-year time frame to go after industry players.
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It is an irony that Mr Obama, in one sense elected for his opposition to the Iraq war, has drawn a line under the conflict stressing its virtues, not its vices.
Yes, in the sense that you have drawn a proverbial line in the proverbial sand.
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Now that it seems likely a comet has drawn a sharp line of charcoal between the two cultures, careful measurements should be able to show whether North America was, for a few centuries after the impact, as bereft of people as it has since been of mammoths.
By applying more or less pressure, users can control line width and opacity of a drawn line.
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Obama had repeatedly drawn a "red line" on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, warning President Bashar al-Assad that using or moving chemical stockpiles was the one thing that would " change my calculus" on that war.
On top of the red line a hand-drawn narrow black line shows the general trend.
Principles would be agreed, then compromises made, and lastly a line drawn.
With a high profile case on a slow burn people are watching to see where the line gets drawn between an idea as a critical gestation point that should be totally protected by patents, ideas as a gestation point we can deal with respectfully, and protect and nurture without legal enforcement, and the ideas are ten a penny attitude.
In a statement, Mr Parsons apologised "unreservedly" but said a line should be drawn under the matter.
The two entities are still cash positive and haven't drawn down a dime of this new line of credit.
How quickly can HypoVereinsbank recover, now that a line has been drawn?
Prime Minister David Cameron and senior officers have said a line should be drawn under the matter following Mr Mitchell's previous apology, but pressure on Mr Mitchell continues.
However, he said a line had been drawn under the incidents following the case at the High Court and he hoped he and Mr Hardwick could establish a "calm, professional and sensible" working relationship.
Set yourself up in style as the sumptuously renovated 17th century convent Santa Clara, owned by Sofitel, overlooking the sea and located right in the heart of the historic district, a line of horse drawn carriages waits outside to whisk you away into the night.
In addition, a line would have been drawn under potentially much higher costs by preventing the bail-outs from becoming a permanent flow of transfers.
The other's mouth was drawn in a thin, grim, determined line.
As of now, there has been neither a direct nor indirect line drawn that would suggest that the White House was, in any way, complicit in the improper behavior.
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Professor Scott suggests that to some extent, in terms of public grief, a dividing line can be drawn between the "more reserved" northern hemisphere and "more emotional" southern hemisphere.
For Jews, a straight line can be drawn from the Hanukkah experience of the second century BCE to the eloquent expressions of religious freedom of the Founding Fathers, many of whom as learned Christian gentlemen of their era were versed in Hebrew and the Jewish canon.
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It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.
The sale of a 33.5% stake in Turk Telecom, the state-owned fixed-line monopoly, has not drawn a single foreign bid.
By the middle of January 2003, the lower support line could also be drawn (line F), which creates a flag formation (highlighted in red).
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