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Teacher workloads have received government attention of late with deputy prime minister Nick Clegg vowing to rein in the "runaway train of bureaucracy" that harasses the profession.

Nick Clegg insists he will continue to make the pro-EU case, and battle to get the Lib Dems their fair share of credit for the coalition's achievements, showing that it is credible party of government that can rein in Tory or Labour excesses, rather than one sitting on the sidelines without power.

The disclosure bill, a complement to one pushed in the Senate last week, is the latest in a series of legislative attempts to rein in the NSA's collection and analysis of Americans' phone records and, potentially, Internet usage.

Over the past two years, self-styled vigilante groups have sprung up across the states of Guerrero and Michoacán in response the government's apparent inability to rein in the organised crime which has turned parts of both states into killing fields.

From a reader: "Please can you rein in the many writers who insist on dropping the word famously into their copy... as in famously overused, famously redundant or famously not really famous at all".

When [actor and playwright] William Gillette wrote the first stage adaptation, he cabled Doyle, 'Can I marry Holmes Doylele replied, 'You may marry him, or murder, or do what you like with him.' So I feel we've got free rein".

Congress is considering legislation to rein in the National Security Agency and Barack Obama is conducting a review.

It was a nail-biting few days for Downing Street as it sought to manage rifts over the economy rescue package, particularly opposition from France and Germany, who argued economic stimulus should not come at the expense of regulation to rein in the excesses of the market.

This year the oligarchs may have been expected to rein in expense as the global financial crisis bites.

"Before the revolution, many women in our society did not wear the hijab - but were they not virtuous humans?" On the campaign trail, Rouhani vowed to rein in the morality police, an organ the president does not directly control.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, looked increasingly boxed in by his own refusal to rein in the federal government's bulk collection of Americans' phone records.

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