rein in
Example Sentences
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According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Polish government will need to rein in spending and raise taxes in order to ease debts over the coming years.
Stories like these added to the frustration in Beijing, which had long been demanding that Myanmar's junta rein in the scam mafia.
From BBC
When we pointed out the labor contract’s job casualties last fall, Mr. O’Brien accused us in a letter of attacking him “by name to distract from the Teamsters’ success of reining in corporate greed.”
Yields on Japanese government debt took off as investors interpreted the proposal as a potential setback in reining in the government’s debt.
From Barron's
But there are limits to the administration’s powers to rein in lawsuits, lawyers say.
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