| The Gods may be more or less hands off, but They have the power to take the reins, if things go very badly. |
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| You take the reins in social situations, and your personality speaks for itself. |
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| Heyman is now casting for a new leading voice actor to take the reins of a Paddington and other characters. |
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| Initially, he had planned only to produce and star in the project, but, with the encouragement of his co-producer, he agreed to take the reins as director. |
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| They appreciate our help, but they are eager to take the reins of their own destiny. |
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| We also believe that it is through education that we can best prepare our people to take the reins of development and maximize economic success. |
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| Simulate the action at any point, then cut in and take the reins when the game is on the line. |
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| I think that the Quartet needs to take the reins very firmly again to prevent what happened after the Oslo agreement from recurring. |
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| Next in line for the hot seat is another Argentinian supremo, Hugo Tocalli, who will take the reins in June. |
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| Someone who has served or is currently serving in the RCMP needs to take the reins. |
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| You turned down the offer to take the reins of the German national team and then all of a sudden you're coaching the Swiss national team! |
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| When a son is relied upon to continue the business, he needs to be trained, and responsibility must be given him over the years so that when the time comes he will take the reins with confidence and ability. |
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| You know, when you take the reins of a transformation in a relatively short period of time, and when you toss out the pens for computers, it's not easy. |
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| I felt so free, letting someone else take the reins. |
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| I can take the reins of my own life again. |
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| The problems come when the moneymen take the reins instead. |
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| Nevertheless, even if today it is the Maghreb's entrepreneurs who wish to take the reins of this integration, one should still seek to understand the European ambivalence toward Maghreb partnerships. |
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| Yesterday, when you arrived in the carriage of honour drawn by the horses of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we thought you might have preferred to take the reins yourself. |
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| In his first season in the former Soviet Republic, he has not only managed to win the league title, but also take the reins of the national team at the same time. |
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| Officially confirmed by the Caritas Europa Regional Conference last June, Mr. Nuño Mayer becomes today the first Spaniard to take the reins at the Secretariat of Caritas Europa. |
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| I am confident, however, that the troika due to take the reins on 1 July will create a climate for moving these questions forward as best it can, building on our efforts to develop broadly shared thinking. |
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| The only advantage we have is that, today, Europe can, as Mr Almunia and President Sarkozy have both stressed, assert itself firmly, make its voice heard on the international stage, take the reins and get a head start. |
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| Through the voices of the many ministers of education who came to Dakar, the States affirmed their determination to take the reins into their own hands. |
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| It is for this reason, in order to prevent these deleveraging efforts from triggering a deflationary spiral, that governments had to take the reins and were forced to swell their own national debts. |
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| There is no cause, especially at this stage of the proceedings, to take the reins away from the successful national regulators and hand them to the Commission. |
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| A growing lobby would like to see Aussie one-day captain George Bailey, a much more clubbable character, take the reins across all formats, according to the report. |
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