(n.) The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.
(n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint.
(v. t.) To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.
(v. t.) To restrain; to control; to check.
(v. i.) To be guided by reins.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
(2) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
(3) The prime minister is coming under increasing pressure from the heads of some of Britain's largest multinational corporations who have urged Cameron to stop "moralising" and rein in his rhetoric on tax avoidance ahead of a G8 summit next month.
(4) There is also a feeling among some analysts that the hardline Islamists will be naturally reined in.
(5) While the administrators, Deloitte, are officially in charge of the process, Hilco holds the reins, having bought most of HMV's debts last month.
(6) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(7) These choices now open the way for Mr Juncker to pick the rest of his commission team, all of whom will face confirmation hearings at the newly empowered European parliament before the new commission takes over the reins in two months’ time.
(8) The levy, which could raise as much as €35bn (£29.3bn) a year for the 11 countries, is designed to prevent a repeat of the conditions that stoked the credit crunch by reining in investment banks.
(9) It also flags up that Portugal is missing its targets despite rebalancing its economy faster than planned: The authorities have continued to rein in expenditure, but have experienced revenue shortfalls resulting from the fast rebalancing of the economy from domestic demand towards exports, which are characterised by a lower tax‐intensity.
(10) A ny attempt to rein in the vast US surveillance apparatus exposed by Edward Snowden's whistleblowing will be for naught unless government and corporations alike are subject to greater oversight.
(11) Kim Jong-un's need for cash has grown more urgent following tough UN sanctions in response to recent missile and nuclear tests, which also prompted China, the North's main benefactor, to rein in its assistance.
(12) It adds: "Either eventuality seems a wholly unjustifiable use of public funds at a time when public spending will be reined in."
(13) Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, said: "Nobody doubts that Stephen Hester has done some important things at RBS, but what this award shows is David Cameron's promises about reining in excessive bonuses at state-owned banks or using shareholder power have proved to be utterly worthless.
(14) The Democratic frontrunner said she had laid out an “aggressive plan to rein in Wall Street” and pointed to Super Pacs established by hedge fund managers to fight her candidacy.
(15) Entwistle will formally take over the reins at the BBC on 17 September, after Thompson has seen the corporation through the London Olympics.
(16) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
(17) Labour has said it will put further pressure on RBS executives to rein in excessive bonuses after helping to force the bank's chief executive, Stephen Hester, to abandon his plan to take a £1m share bonus .
(18) Using these templates we have shown that a human histone gene, H3.3, contains sequences (intrinsic terminators) within which purified RNA polymerase II will efficiently terminate transcription (Reines, D., Wells, D., Chamberlin, M.J., and Kane, C. M. (1987) J. Mol.
(19) In a joint statement, several of the advocates warned: "As the Chinese government bears down heavy-handedly to rein in petitioning citizens, free intellectuals, rights defenders, and religious figures, it has … intensified its full-scale repression of rights defence lawyers to an unprecedented degree.
(20) Klopp has made a swift recovery from surgery and will be on the touchline at Upton Park, although has vowed to rein in his demonstrative touchline behaviour against Slaven Bilic’s side.
Ren
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) See Renne.
(n.) A run.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the 10 tissues examined, endogenous renin transcripts were identified in and restricted to kidney, submandibular gland, testes and ovary consistent with the expression pattern of the Ren-1c gene.
(2) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
(3) FH is assigned to the U1 synteny group together with PGD, ENO1, AT3, and REN, while PEPC is found to belong to the U17 group (chromosome 8), like FN1, CRYG, and VIL1.
(4) Transgenic rats [TGR; strain name TGR(mRen2)27] harboring the mouse Ren-2 renin gene have been recently generated as a model for the study of primary hypertension that offers the advantage of a clearly-defined genetic alteration.
(5) The results indicate that the basic amino acid at the COOH-side but not at the NH2-side of the basic pair of Ren 2 prorenin is essential for processing directed by prorenin converting enzyme, and that the Arg residue at the COOH-side is more preferable for processing than the Lys.
(6) This provides a useful bridging polymorphic marker on lq and establishes significant linkage of LAMB2 to FY (theta = 3.23, z = 3.85) and REN (theta = 0.17, z = 4.88).
(7) I guess it is revenge,” Ren’s lawyer, Chang Boyang, said on Monday after visiting the attorney at a detention centre in the city of Zhengzhou.
(8) His brother, Chen Guangfu, said Yinan county prosecutors had questioned his wife, Ren Zongju, 59, on Wednesday for an hour and a half and then notified her that they planned to indict her on the charge of harbouring a suspect.
(9) "The most important points of control are governors and regional legislatures … The money is all at the level of governor," he told Ren-TV.
(10) During one cycle with 3-day EAT on acupoints Ren 3, 4, Extra 16 and Sp 6, ovulation resulted in 5 patients (ovulatory group) and among the 5 cases, 3 of 4 infertile cases became pregnant.
(11) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
(12) This phenomenon conforms to the theory in traditional Chinese medicine that the Du channel is the "sea of Yang channels", while the Ren channel is the "sea of Yin channels".
(13) We report here the results of linkage studies using five chromosome 1 markers--Duffy (Fy), antithrombin III (AT3), renin (REN), beta-nerve growth factor (NGFB), and salivary amylase (AMY1)--in 16 CMT1 pedigrees.
(14) Finn and Rey take on Kylo Ren together April’s teaser showed us a worried-looking Finn taking on the much larger Ren in a forest landscape.
(15) Moreover, the data indicate similar relative positions of human and mouse complement receptor-related genes REN, CD45, LAMB2, AT3, APOA2, and SPTA.
(16) Between January, 1976 and April 1988, 1279 patients underwent open-heart operation in Ren Ji Hospital.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Supreme Leader Snoke finally has his answer Andy Serkis’s First Order bad guy No 1 was the first voice we heard in the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens a year ago, asking: “There has been an awakening ... have you felt it?” Twelve months on we discover he’s addressing hooded Vader fanboy Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) who responds simply: “Yes.” This dynamic pitches the pair as the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader of the new movie, and yet continues to raise further questions.
(18) PSG’s official account tweeted a Vine on Tuesday afternoon with the supporting video flicking through various masked movie characters and superheroes, from Batman to Zorro, Spider-Man to Darth Vader, Iron Man to Kylo Ren.
(19) Results indicated that both Ren-1 and Ren-2 responded to cAMP treatment in identical fashion.
(20) Most mouse inbred strains carry two renin genes, Ren-1 and Ren-2, Renin-2, the product of the Ren-2 gene, is highly expressed in the submaxillary gland.