draw the line

How To Use draw the line In A Sentence

• With promises such as regrown spinal-cord tissue allowing the paralyzed to walk again, many people find it hard to draw the line and say no. Archive 2005-06-01
• if your slave may be so honoured as to speak in your presence, a vizier should be a person of great tact; he should be able to draw the line as nicely as I do when I shave your sublime head, leaving not a vestige of the hair, yet entering not upon the skin. The Pacha of Many Tales
• You draw the line and smudge it to soften the look. Times, Sunday Times
• Congress would draw the line by only supporting basic research and disengaging from assisting in precompetitive technology development -- even when it promises enormous public benefits. Remarks By Asst For Science Gibbons To Aaas Forum
• Firstly, many will be false positives – "conservation" is a spectrum, so the definition of a conserved element depends on where you draw the line, and the noise resulting from drift will always create some areas that appear conserved without being functional. Demarcation as Politics
• I swear quite a lot but even I draw the line at saying certain words.
• Where do we draw the line between individual freedom and good order in society?
• One must draw the line somewhere. 
• Let's talk about where you draw the line between legitimate civil disobedience, and what constitutes damage to lawful, economical commercial activity.
• Draw the line 2 palms from the bottom of the painting.