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Example sentences for: reins

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Bill Kristol ( This Week ), who's been dressed for combat for months, retorts that if the White House wants to hand the reins of U.S. foreign policy to Annan, then we ought to anoint him secretary of state.
Why not turn them into reins?
Reich called on central bankers in advanced economies to consider whether it was time to loosen the reins on the money supply.
The groundwork had been laid for Steve Ballmer's accession to the throne, and it's been clear for a while that Wall Street is very comfortable with Ballmer at the reins.
Donald Kennedy, a biologist, former president of Stanford University, and once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, will take the reins at Science in June.