Examples of main line

• Its main line was that administrative personnel in the police forces had to be cut down, to make way for more policemen and police officers.

• The main line of the book relates to the development of the doctrine of creation.

• All this suggests, therefore, that those in the main line (chokkei) and their collaterals (bokei) were not on an equal footing.

• A preliminary statement of this difficulty may serve to keep the main line of argument clear.

• This in turn can be related back to the main line of argument.

• Postcodes were used on the main line to mark utterances that were incomplete, routines, imitations or repetitions.

• Explanation is exclusive description - wiping out whatever is not relevant for the main line of the narrative.

• However, our main line of analysis resonates most closely with those studies of violence that examine the production and reproduction of discourses of violence.