The phrase "act along the same lines" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone should behave or take action in a similar manner to what has been previously discussed or established.
Example: "In order to maintain consistency in our approach, we should all act along the same lines during the project."
Alternatives: "act similarly" or "follow the same approach".
STEVE COLL: More than most presidents, given what his election meant in the light of American history, I think there was and is an expectation abroad — not just in the Arab world, but elsehwere — that Obama's presidency would represent and give voice to the highest traditions of American commitment to universal rights — and that he would act along the same lines.
The Second Circuit read the scope of the Stored Communications Act along the same lines, limiting the application of any warrant to what is within this country's borders because there was no indication in the statute that Congress wanted the law to permit searches outside the United States.
Whilst mutations of the SOD1 gene account only for approximately 2% of the whole ALS population, other not yet identified predisposing or causative genetic factors may act along the same lines, reducing the neuroregenerative potential and escalating the level of disability after trauma.
Conservation of total angular momentum does not follow immediately from Newton's laws but demands the additional assumption that any pair of forces, action and reaction, are not only equal and opposite but act along the same line.
The policy change will apply to young undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children, along the same lines as the Dream Act, a decade-old bill that passed in the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate in 2010.
And Italy's attempts at legislation along the same lines as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, America's response to Enron's collapse, have faltered.
The Bay Area's eclectic landscape should operate along the same lines as many an effective comic act: with a good punch line set up to defy expectations.
