(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.
Stag
Definition:
(n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
(n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.
(n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
(n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
(n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
(n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
(n.) The European wren.
(v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
(v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Specifically, StAg splicing uses either of two lariat branch points, one of which is located only 4 nucleotides from the 3' splice site.
(2) In particular, all cases of the epithelial predominant type presenting favorable histology, including stag 4 cases, survived over two years.
(3) During a research project on the occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes 194 strains were isolated in southern West Germany during the years 1972 to 1974:154 from soil and plant samples (20.3%), 16 from feces of deer and stag (15.7%), 9 from old moldy fodder and wildlife feeding grounds (27.2%), and 8 from birds (17.3%).
(4) Mean creatine kinase activity and creatinine, albumin and phosphorus concentrations were higher in stags than in hinds.
(5) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
(6) The combination of intraoperative localization of intrarenal arteries by Doppler flowmetry and cutting through renal parenchyma using the neodymium-YAG laser beam was used in 7 patients with stag-horn calculi or recurrent stones.
(7) Detailed information obtained from 4 stags indicated that there was a fixed relationship between stage of the antler cycle and testis diameter; minimum testis diameter occurred 1-2 months after antler casting whereas maximum testis diameter occurred when stags were in hard antler.
(8) Since lymphatic invasions are unusual in children, surgical exploration of the retro-peritoneal space is no longer considered necessary for the stagging and is replaced nowadays by ultrasonography and CT scan.
(9) Reports of George’s stag do at Ristorante da Ivo near St Mark’s Square with the free £3,000 meal featuring six flavours of ice cream, including takeaway cartons, initially irked me.
(10) We investigated the value of 10 free serum amino acids in continuous therapy monitoring in 9 patients with primary cancer of vulva stag pT1-2pN0M0.
(11) In contrast, THX stags maintained a testosterone response (P less than 0.01) in these 2 months and did not exhibit any signs of a seasonal lack of reproductive activity at this time of year.
(12) Jo, the youngest brother, learned from his earliest years to keep quiet and watch Boris earn his rightful place as top stag.
(13) The 18C2-purified soluble target Ag (STAg) caused inhibition of cytotoxicity when preincubated with fish NCC.
(14) Even if you’re one of those refuseniks who proudly claim “I’m not on Facebook”, you probably are – what about that chemically inconvenienced stag weekend in Tallinn that your pals created a Facebook album for?
(15) There is little evidence that hungover customers struggle, taste-wise, with what one provider calls the Auschwitz Stag Do Package, which could be attributable to amnesia, or to that fact that, as with lap dancing and medieval banquets, what happens at Birkenau stays at Birkenau.
(16) Its 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II , shifted the stag-do antics of bachelor quartet Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner and Doug Billings from Las Vegas to Bangkok and once again broke box-office records.
(17) Hypothermic in situ perfusion of the kidney in difficult surgical procedures on the renal parenchyma, e.g., multiple stones, stag-horn calculi, benign and malignant tumors in solitary, residual or functionally residual kidneys.
(18) The composition of the antlers did not vary significantly between penned and grazing stags or with age.
(19) These STAG planes are placed in the myocardium in a star pattern so that they intersect on the long axis of the heart and stripes appear through the width of the heart wall.
(20) This study was undertaken to evaluate both technique and aesthetic results of early excision and split thickness autografting (STAG) of full skin thickness face burns.