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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rein.

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Examples

  • WV = "reined" As in "Harper needs to be ___ in and the Liberals are acting like a barnyard full of chickens."

    Dear Liberal Party Fucktards Lindsay Stewart 2008

  • For when, in after years, his people sought to curb his tyrannies with a revolt that ended only with his death upon the scaffold, outside this very banqueting house at Whitehall, Charles Stuart learned all too late that a "mettlesome horse" needed sometimes to be "reined," and heard, too late as well, the stern declaration of the Commons of England that

    The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

  • It looks at the people, even the lowest and scummiest of them (including Paresh Rawal who bravely plays a middle class businessman who happily looted a Muslim shop and shared in his brother's participative glee in a gang rape) with a kind of reined-in empathy that makes even the seeming perpetrators look like victims.

    AndhraCafe.com 2009

  • Even as some of the grossest abuses may be reined in now in the wake of the financial meltdown, we should expect more sophisticated versions of those abuses to continue and use of online behavioral targeting is likely to remain and even expand as a tool for those predatory financial actors.

    Nathan Newman: New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Should Regulate Online Advertising of Financial Products Nathan Newman 2011

  • In addition, federal rules that have reined in overdraft fees have cost banks billions of dollars, which they are trying to make up in more-direct consumer charges.

    How Debit-Card Fees Ruin Banking Relationships Karen Blumenthal 2011

  • GDP increased by a lacklustre 0.2% in the second quarter of 2011 after consumers reined in spending.

    Markets tumble after Wall Street losses 2011

  • That form has pepped confidence within the squad that United can be reined in, even if it would take the perfect run-in for the Londoners to secure their fourth league title in seven seasons.

    Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea now have slim chance in title race 2011

  • Even as some of the grossest abuses may be reined in now in the wake of the financial meltdown, we should expect more sophisticated versions of those abuses to continue and use of online behavioral targeting is likely to remain and even expand as a tool for those predatory financial actors.

    Nathan Newman: New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Should Regulate Online Advertising of Financial Products Nathan Newman 2011

  • Thus, many of the REITs have reined in their buying activity until their stocks recover.

    Hotel Deals Decline as Stocks Drop Kris Hudson 2011

  • Mr. Obama said in his speech on Thursday that health-care costs are a major contributor to the debt and need to be reined in.

    The Obama Promise: Then and Now Stephen Moore 2011

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