(n. pl.) The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
(n. pl.) The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.
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.
Reis
Definition:
(pl. ) of Rei
(n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.
(n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequence homologies among YsT9.1 and the Fv regions of McPC603, J539 and human Bence--Jones protein REI, all of which have solved crystal structures, provided the basis for the modeling.
(2) The authors infer from the REI literature five assumptions regarding the roles and responsibilities of elementary regular classroom teachers, concluding that these teachers and specialists form a partnership, but the classroom teachers are ultimately in charge of the instruction of all children in their classrooms, including those who are not succeeding in the mainstream.
(3) A 46-year-old white woman had Reis-Bücklers corneal dystrophy; the disease had recurred in a corneal transplant within ten years of transplantation.
(4) For one region in the first domain of CD4 there was an ambiguity in the alignment with REI and two alternate models are presented.
(5) Perhaps due to the misnomer, annular or honeycomblike subepithelial opacities have come to be regarded as Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy.
(6) Ninety-four regular classroom teachers in northwest Iowa were asked to agree or disagree with a series of statements on the REI position.
(7) Their impact on the entomological parameters is remarkable with a reduction of more than 98% of ma and the rate of entomological inoculation (REI) in the houses.
(8) Most publicly, when Manchester United bought the Portuguese player Bébé in 2010, Gestifute had just days earlier bought 30% of the player's "economic rights" and begun representing him, Bébé having sacked his former agent Gonçalo Reis just before the United deal.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luiz Henrique Reis What makes me happy about Brazil is ... the typical happiness and hospitality found in people.
(10) Bébé's agent, Gonçalo Reis, has said he was cut off mid-contract, before Mendes suddenly began to represent Bébé then within days agreed a €9m (£7.5m) deal with United.
(11) But with the last kick, or header, of the game, Tim Cahill provided a late equalizer for the second successive game as his attempt looped over Matt Reis to give New York the point they needed to clinch a playoff spot.
(12) The specimens consisted of 8 keratoplasty specimens obtained from 2 cases of granular dystrophy and 4 cases of lattice dystrophy and one case each of primary droplet dystrophy and Reis-Bücklers dystrophy.
(13) The dystrophy originally described by Reis and Bücklers shows electron-microscopically 'rod-shaped bodies' in the region of Bowman's membrane that cannot be distinguished from the 'rod-shaped bodies' in the granular dystrophy.
(14) In Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy an unknown pathomechanism in Bowman's layer and the basal cells of the corneal epithelium results in recurrent epithelial erosions.
(15) Thiel-Behnke's corneal dystrophy resembles Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy clinically, but differs from it in its honeycomb-shaped opacity pattern, the fibrous tissue in histology, and the curly dense filaments found in electron microscopy.
(16) Electroroentgenography with multiple magnification by means of the apparatuses REIS-D and ERGA-02 reveals lymph nodes in the mediastinum of small laboratory animals.
(17) One of the criticisms is that regular classroom teachers' views regarding many of the beliefs or assumptions of the REI are unknown.
(18) Rei Kawakubo, the founder of Comme des Garçons: Weird pink kaleidoscope prints!
(19) The structure of the variable portions of a K-type Bence-Jones protein REI forming a dimer has been determined by X-ray diffraction to a resolution of 2.0 A.
(20) A lovely little dink over the top is clutched by Reis.