(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.
Saccade
Definition:
(n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
Example Sentences:
(1) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(2) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
(3) Many subjects have a negative spike in the beginning of a saccade in electro-oculographic signals.
(4) In one group of patients peak eye movement velocities alone were measured during horizontal refixation saccades.
(5) Abducting saccades, which were slightly hypometric, displayed a marked postsaccadic centripetal drift.
(6) When delta phi was enlarged, first saccades were either directed near the green or the red spot (bistable response mode).
(7) The position of the visual receptive field of these neurons did not change after saccadic eyes displacements, but remained in-register with the tactile receptive field.
(8) If the fixation point remained visible (overlap condition), very short (100 ms) and rather long (220 ms) latency saccades were observed.
(9) (b) Does the parafoveal processing of words affect the following interword saccade?
(10) We concluded that VDI may be a very useful index in detecting subtle disorders in saccades conjugacy.
(11) When an observer moves his arm he shows more precise visual tracking of a target mounted on his fingertip-the eye lags behind the target less and makes fewer corrective saccades-than when he relaxes his arm and the experimenter moves it in a similar manner.
(12) Although we found clear and consistent subject-specific differences, the most common pattern in oblique visually-guided (i.e., fast) saccades reflected early dominance of the horizontal velocity signal as expressed in saccade trajectories curving away from the horizontal axis.
(13) Three units showed eye position-related tonic discharges with saccadic bursts.
(14) Analysis of our patient's behavior indicates that many types of saccadic oscillations can be explained and classified by assuming an abnormality of pause cell control over saccadic burst neurons.
(15) A computerized pattern recognition algorithm divided pursuit eye movements into two basic components: smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements.
(16) In one subject, compensatory saccadic eye movements corrected a consistent directional asymmetry in the slow-phase response.
(17) We report a 73-year-old patient with an eye movement disorder characterized by paralysis of saccades and pursuit.
(18) Text in which familiar patterns of letters were destroyed, either by changing letter-order or letter-orientation, was read by sequences of small (less than 30') saccades made to look at every letter, or every alternate letter.
(19) The low-threshold region from which saccadic eye movements could be evoked with currents less than 10 microA was confined to lobule VII in two monkeys and it included a posterior part of lobule VI (lobule VIc) in another monkey.
(20) During the drug holidays, visually guided saccades were hypometric and had long latencies but retained a normal saccade velocity-amplitude relationship.