1.   After Lee relinquished the reins at Marvel, the company was bought, sold and filed for bankruptcy.

2.   Bush exhibited none of the truculence that some Senate Republicans, loath to relinquish the reins of power, have expressed in recent days.

3.   In Baptist circles, he had done the unheard of -- relinquished the reins of a superchurch.

4.   Yet the king will not relinquish the reins of power.

5.   When losses continued, Credit Lyonnais attempted to install studio executive Alan Ladd Jr. to take over operations, but Parretti refused to relinquish the reins.