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Interim coach Terrence Whitehead, a former City player of the year for Crenshaw in 2001 and former Oregon Ducks tailback, took the reins of the offense and day-to-day operations of the program.

Still, she has clever ideas about how to keep Downton Abbey afloat and to push it into the modern age as she finally takes the reins from her father.

Now, it's China that holds the reins in this relationship.

It had few powers with which to set policy, especially with Franklin Roosevelt taking the reins of economic policy in his own hands.

She previously served in Congress and the statehouse before becoming one of the five “little queens” holding the reins of the county kingdom.