Sentence examples for of a rein from inspiring English sources

But she gave me a shock of another sort, by being so smoothly responsive to the slightest tug of a rein (with no bit, only a halter) or pressure of a knee that it was uncanny.

"But maybe give him a bit of a rein; give him a reason to play, a reason to pass, a reason to have a go rather than just be this battering ram, which he does well - but there is more to him". On Friday Wales beat France 19-10 in a game captain Sam Warburton described as "boring" and coach Warren Gatland viewed as brilliant.

Whereas the loss of a rein-ring would have compromised a charioteer's ability to drive his chariot, the loss of a linchpin would have been decidedly more hazardous.

One of the more conservative Democrats in the House, he was a supporter of arms control and of a tightened rein on Pentagon procurement practices.

"He's sorted our defence out and given us a structure to play with that gives us a little bit of a free rein too," Moore said.

"I see him as a future head coach and I would probably have given him more of a free rein anyway".

Dress codes that focus on women's clothes, while giving men more of a free rein, are increasingly being called out – and rightly so.

Although the national government sometimes decides what municipalities should and must do, they nevertheless have something of a free rein.

"I went out with a bit of a free rein and managed to clear the ropes a few times.

"It's a great system that Coach D'Antoni runs; it gives players a lot of free rein, a lot of freedom to utilize their skills," Wade said.

It is as if the ordinariness of the terrors and hopes that Shields depicts requires a reining-in of sentences.