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How To Use old-line In A Sentence

• Though old-line, hard-line feminism has little appeal for today's women, its ideology lives on in law and policy - like light rays from a dead star.
• But old-line feminism still has a tin ear for listening to women with children, as evidenced by their main solution to the problem of combining work and family life: the socialization of child care.
• Ambitious, brilliant entrepreneurs revolting against the old-line, hierarchical, East Coast work culture defined the Valley's earliest days.
• What do you do with an employee who is trained to operate a specific machine in an old-line industry that no longer employs Americans? TAA Program Gives Real Benefits
• Development of chemical weapons was restrained in the 1920s by public outrage on moral grounds as well as protests from old-line army leaders on the basis of tradition and ineffectiveness.
• The W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., one of the better-known, old-line knife makers, is most known for its many pocketknives and larger folders, most with a classic design.
• A bill to require this was killed earlier this year by the L.A. Assemblyman, a Democrat close to the old-line energy industry who has used his position as chairman of the Assembly's energy committee to frustrate progressives.
• The vote was supported by a coalition of old-line communists who disliked his free-market reforms, and by corrupt oligarchs who feared they might lose their place at the trough.
• He was a lukewarm supporter of the war, a voice of the old-line Republican foreign policy establishment.
• I have my theological beefs with Mormonism, of course, but my experience is that people with some approximation of traditional religious faith have discovered that we have much more in common with one another than we do with the militant secularists, which is why evangelicals, Catholics, religious Jews, and the last of the remaining old-line Protestants have found so many opportunities for cooperation. LOSING OUR RELIGION