The message the electorate sent was to rein him in, to force him to negotiate.

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With 40 percent of the federal budget currently being borrowed and military planners searching for hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to help rein in spending, some shrinkage in the size of the joint force seems inevitable.

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The China Banking Regulatory Commission, to its credit, issued regulations at the end of last month to force banks to rein in the shadowy products, but as a practical matter the rules only begin to address systemic problems.

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In a variation on the theme, Avigdor Kahalani, the minister for internal security, suggests that the army should first bomb Beirut's power plants and water supply, to force the authorities to rein in Hizbullah and thus allow Israel to withdraw safely from the southern zone.

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The United Nations Commission and other experts may fear that acknowledging an armed conflict in Syria will give both sides free rein to use military force.

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What the ABA is mainly talking about are parts of the bill that force banks to layer on the compliance and rein in or curtail certain activities.

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The police force, especially, needs a boost if it is to rein in vigilantism and ethnic violence.

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