(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.
Vault
Definition:
(n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
(n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
(n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
(n.) A leap or bound.
(n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
(n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
(v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
(v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
(n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
(n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cranial vault displayed a severe concentric hyperostosis besides other striking changes.
(2) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
(3) The deformities resulting from premature closure of a coronal, sagittal, metopic, or lambdoid suture can be predicted by the following observations: (1) cranial vault bones that are prematurely fused act as a single bone plate with decreased growth potential; (2) asymmetrical bone deposition occurs mainly at perimeter sutures, with increased bone deposition directed away from the bone plate; (3) sutures adjacent to the stenotic suture compensate in growth more than those sutures not contiguous with the closed suture; and (4) enhanced bone deposition occurs along both sides of a nonperimeter suture that is a continuation of the prematurely closed suture.
(4) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
(5) We have studied the incidence of intraoperative hemorrhage, bladder damage, hemorrhage up to 48 h after surgery, hemorrhage up to 14 days after surgery, vault abscesses or collections and pelvic peritonitis.
(6) They commemorate – sometimes no more questioningly than a press release – a new novel or stage play or film, before disappearing into production-company vaults.
(7) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(8) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
(9) If you hold more than a few thousand pounds [at home] you are likely to invalidate your household insurance, or will have to pay an extra premium and install security measures.” Bullion Vault’s 60,000 customers own the gold they buy, but it is held in vaults in London, Zürich, New York, Toronto or Singapore.
(10) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
(11) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
(12) The prosthodontic management of patients with partial tongue resection often includes lowering the palatal vault, while the management of the total glossectomy patient usually requires a mandibular tongue prosthesis.
(13) He’s nine now but he has seen it.” Others using the vault feared they had lost jewellery, family heirlooms, cash and essential documents, he added.
(14) The supplementary use of external cranial vault molding devices after these surgical techniques, however, has resulted in consistently improved cranial vault from over what could be achieved by operation alone.
(15) This was accompanied by an overall significant reduction in neurocranial vault length during the first 30 days of development.
(16) There were eight patients with the radiological type I characterized by diffuse, symmetrical osteosclerosis with pronounced sclerosis of the skull and enlarged thickness of the cranial vault, and six patients with type II characterized by diffuse, symmetrical osteosclerosis, "Rugger-Jersey spine" and "endobones" (bone within a bone) in the pelvis.
(17) There was no direct physical evidence that any of the guilty men were ever in the vault.
(18) The common clinical finding enabling us to include all 36 tumors in this study is a large tumefaction of the cranial vault, without our being able to determine its anatomical starting point or histological nature.
(19) On these casts intermolar and intercanine arch width, arch length, ratio, palatal vault depth and palatal volume measurements were performed.
(20) And then, instead of destroying the text, he perversely deposited the manuscript in a Swiss bank vault in the custody of his wife and son.