"bring into line" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings into line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing into line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought into line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought into line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> into line"
      },
      "expansion": "bring into line (third-person singular simple present brings into line, present participle bringing into line, simple past and past participle brought into line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "These changes will bring the country's anti-piracy laws into line with the rest of the European Union.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Edward Friedman, China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemma's and International Peace, page xvii:",
          "text": "[…] many are persuaded that China's soft, conciliatory and generous approaches have failed and that therefore Taiwan may have to be brought into line by other means.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring into a state of conformity; to make consistent with others."
      ],
      "id": "en-bring_into_line-en-verb-lktakZc5",
      "links": [
        [
          "conformity",
          "conformity"
        ],
        [
          "consistent",
          "consistent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To bring into a state of conformity; to make consistent with others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring into line"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings into line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing into line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought into line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought into line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> into line"
      },
      "expansion": "bring into line (third-person singular simple present brings into line, present participle bringing into line, simple past and past participle brought into line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "These changes will bring the country's anti-piracy laws into line with the rest of the European Union.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Edward Friedman, China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemma's and International Peace, page xvii:",
          "text": "[…] many are persuaded that China's soft, conciliatory and generous approaches have failed and that therefore Taiwan may have to be brought into line by other means.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring into a state of conformity; to make consistent with others."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conformity",
          "conformity"
        ],
        [
          "consistent",
          "consistent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To bring into a state of conformity; to make consistent with others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring into line"
}