Particularly in the past couple of weeks when he has held the reins through very difficult circumstances".
then took up the reins through recent Volta ao Algarve winner Richie Porte, protecting their overall leader Bradley Wiggins; such was Porte's high tempo that less than twenty riders remained in the lead group as the race reached the final kilometre.
Bits designed to give strong poll pressure using simple pulley or lever principles show a much attenuated transfer of the rein tension through the bit to the poll.
Unexpectedly, however, a simple loose ring bit is found to give modest poll pressure, transferring rein tension through a pulley-like action.
His glazed eyes stare vaguely ahead; his leathery hands, reins woven through their fingers, hover just above his knees.
Indeed, perhaps her body will be used as a land claim, a territorial marker, a stake, a fleur-de-lis_._ Instead of pointing to her breast, like the Virgin, or covering her breast or heart, like Botticelli's Venus, the Sable Venus has a pair of reins threaded through both of her hands.
Its director, Terry Hands, a one-time colleague at the Royal Shakespeare Company, allowed him free rein to wander through the play, but many of the speeches were misplaced.
For one thing, it said, News International provided it with only a limited selection of e-mails in five electronic folders on the company server; the law firm was "not given free rein to look through whatever it wanted".
Simmering over a federal law that forces huge expenses on states and local districts, which complain of insufficient federal contributions, districts have fought to rein in costs through the courts, with some success.
Mr. Suskind argues that the health care package that eventually passed — after months of bitter wrangling that further polarized the country — would be a watered-down version that did not really reform the medical delivery system or rein in costs through government-forced efficiencies as much as its proponents had hoped.
