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"leant" Definitions
  1. a past participle and simple past tense of lean1.

107 Sentences With "leant"

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Banks are being leant on to juice up the economy.
Nevertheless, fate had leant a hand in this chance encounter.
They leant Democratic by a slimmer margin than blacks or Hispanics.
But the PP governments of 1996-2004 leant in the opposite direction.
But imagine a world in which that statistic leant the other way.
I think the songs on this record leant themselves better to the flute.
Unmade leant their creative prowess to the proceedings, providing some intelligently crafted knitwear.
He leant over and said, 'Have you made up your mind about your future?
It was the only movement in the room, and it leant an improbable earthliness.
He drew a chair up to her desk and leant on the corner of it.
A gaunt man leant over a friend's face, helping him plunge a needle into his neck.
Republicans leant heavily on slogans that lauded hard-working, taxpaying "makers" and scorning welfare-collecting "takers".
True, she is who is she is because of her husband -- their marriage leant her stature.
What I leant this year is that we need to take a broader view of responsibility.
He leant down to pick up his chair when he felt Linda's hand on his shoulder.
The guy leant forward, over extended and fell short, McGregor stepped back and threw the straight right.
Another senior official said Washington, which has imposed sanctions on the Maduro government, had leant on Lisbon.
A new watchdog lacks a clear mandate and is leant on by ministers, says Ali Malik, a criminologist.
Although the elderly have long leant Conservative, in recent years their support for the Tories has become entrenched.
So, I undid my flies (sure), leant back on the sofa, and got stuck into the penultimate round.
What set Marshall apart as an individual was a certain panache she leant to all of her work.
However, compared with the New York appeals court and much other legal opinion, it leant heavily towards the administration.
In retrospect, the gaffe leant a meaningful insight into the candidate's character, and in its strange way, was ennobling.
"The Duchess just leant over and said to me "I've got to give you a hug as a mum.
Xavier is leant over Gaspard's plate, helping him mould his steak tartare into the shape of the Justice crucifix.
Alsatia felt her stomach for the equivalent socket before the doctor leant in and smoothed the plastiskin back over.
Barack Obama, then America's president, opposed the takeover and leant on Mr Morsi to make concessions to save his skin.
Conservative HQ has leant on local associations to back its preferred candidates, most notably under David Cameron in 2005-16.
A lot of neighborhoods smelled really bad, which leant credence to the widely-held theory for how cholera spread: miasmas.
German exporters have already leant on you to keep tariffs in whatever post-Brexit settlement emerges as low as possible.
It also became an urban landscape that leant itself to the style, technicality, and commingling that birthed a timeless aesthetic.
A surprised Noble leant across and did as he was told, pinching the youngster's wrist, at which point Warholm concurred.
The group, which advocates on behalf of small businesses, leant its support to a bill introduced earlier this year by Rep.
In the referendum Scotland turned out to be very pro-EU, whereas most of the rest of Britain leant towards Brexit.
The money was leant for periods ranging from 17 to 95 days, with A$5.6 billion going at the longest date.
Gwen Stefani's sons leant a helping hand over the weekend, serving in the wedding party for the the singer's close friend Zelva.
They had previously made a YouTube series together, but felt the content of "My Dad Wrote a Porno" leant itself to audio.
Historical analyses have leant support to the idea that the longer a club spends in exile, the harder it is to return.
China, Cambodia's largest aid donor, has leant its support to Hun Sen, saying it respects Cambodia's right to defend its national security.
Light as a Feather creator Lee Fleming believes Aarsen's story leant itself easily to adaptation because of its roots as a Wattpad story.
And some reflect bad faith: politicians in the previous government leant shamelessly on public banks to supply money to their cronies in business.
Strongholds of political centralism (Castile in Spain), prosperous borderlands (Skane in Sweden) or regions with a self-sufficient spirit (Bavaria in Germany) leant right.
U.S. Treasury yields were down 1.7 basis points at 2.03 percent, as the fall in oil prices leant some support to safe-haven debt.
They tend to be seniors, traveling alone, leant right back into the worn patterns of the chair, a permanent smile pointed at the nearby window.
Mr Kagame no longer meddles as much abroad, partly because donors leant on him but mostly because he has wiped out his greatest external threats.
As I sipped my first coffee of the day, I leant across and told my new housemate something I'd told other friends just days previous.
"Instead of holding my hips up, I leant forward," Lapierre said of his error in flight, which he estimated cost him up to 30 centimeters.
News on Tuesday meanwhile that North Korea has test-launched what it said was a new intercontinental ballistic missile leant safe-haven bonds markets some support.
""He shot this lady once and then he shot her again, he fell to the floor, leant over, shot her once more in the face area.
The system leant itself to corruption, with positions given to people who weren't qualified for their jobs — but who were loyal to the party in power.
The recovery in risk appetite globally leant some support to a battered Italian debt market, where yields were 3 to 5 basis points lower in early trade.
The same large banks that leant billions during the boom have now pulled out of coal, wary of the sector's commercial outlook and contribution to climate change.
His picks for top cabinet positions and senior advisers have leant more heavily on former businessmen than those of former administrations, which relied more on professional bureaucrats.
Fugro's controlled glide hypothesis is also the first time officials have leant some support to contested theories that someone was in control during the flight's final moments.
When Countrywide, an American mortgage broker, leant on its staff to commit fraud by passing on defective loans to the government, it fired those who spoke out.
We've all smoked banana skins, put on The Doors, and leant back on a purple beanbag to stare at our mate's wicked Magic Eye painting of Jupiter.
Ma's China-friendly Nationalists lost landslide elections in January to President Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has traditionally leant towards independence from China.
With the Serb standing well behind the baseline, Kyrgios leant over the ball, bounced it a few times and without looking up, flicked it just over the net.
I asked if I could use his Union Jack for a picture, he kindly leant it to me and I could feel how special this was to him.
After several years of splashy overseas acquisitions, China has tightened the screws on deals abroad and has leant on banks to reduce lending that helped fuel the buying spree.
Rubin leant the name to the software startup he founded in 2003, which was later acquired by Google and formed the basis for the world's largest mobile operating system.
After several years of splashy overseas acquisitions, China has tightened the screws on deals abroad and has leant on banks to reduce lending that helped fuel the shopping spree.
Nor has it helped that President Erdogan has leant heavily on the central bank to refrain from raising interest rates to stem the currency's slide and to curb inflation.
But the idea in Stories Untold, that you're digging through memories and trying to make sense of things, leant itself perfectly to systems like, for example, a microfilm reader.
Whatever the reason for their association with him, the problem is that the proximity and connection of so many well regarded scientists to Epstein leant him an aura of legitimacy.
Last March Anna Kinberg Batra, Mr Reinfeldt's successor as leader, leant towards co-option, announcing that after next September's election she might try to form a government with SD support.
Mr Tavares concedes that making 10m cars is useful for spreading the industry's high costs but is less certain that suppliers can be leant upon indefinitely without going bust themselves.
" For this edition of American Gods in particular, McKean "felt the other-world passages of the book leant themselves to illustration, so the images become a doorway into that other realm.
The news agency adds: Fugro's controlled glide hypothesis is also the first time officials have leant some support to contested theories that someone was in control during the flight's final moments.
Don't be surprised if a friend comes banging on your door about money they leant you or if you start getting very annoyed that you're always covering the bill for someone.
In a chilly, utilitarian service lift on the way to one of many inaugural balls, the president put his jacket around the first lady's bare shoulders and leant in, almost touching foreheads.
The only legitimate source of new capital was the family, and David Astor himself ploughed at least £1.25m (in late 1960s money) into the paper and leant on his siblings for more.
Ryan has largely stayed out of the fray, at least publicly, but he has leant his weight to efforts by GOP lawmakers to wrest access to documents related to the ongoing investigation.
The global stock market rally, which led to gains of over 270 percent in 183, also leant support, with equities making up around 218-212 percent of SWF and pension fund portfolios.
Others simply sat with their eyes closed, their faces turned towards the light as they leant against or placed their hands on the huge, weathered stones which make up the circular monument.
He performed the role with great—some might say excessive—enthusiasm: he is said to have bribed and leant on William Chaloner's associates and mistresses to secure the conviction of the counterfeiting kingpin.
About half would go on exchanges, and the rest was spread in small bets across his network of accounts set up with the personal details of friends who had leant him their identity.
A spokesman for Rothermere declined to confirm or deny the BBC report, but said the Mail's proprietor had been "leant on by more than one prime minister" to remove editors over the years.
I was disappointed by Mizuguchi's last major work, Child of Eden, which had a similar interstellar-hippy-rave aesthetic to Tetris Effect, but leant a little too heavily on earnest J-pop for my taste.
Senate President Marti Batres excoriated colleague Ricardo Monreal for "stabbing him in the back", claiming the head of MORENA's Senate parliamentary group leant on lawmakers to ensure Batres lost his re-election bid to another MORENA senator.
As local musicians harmonised over civil-rights hymns such as "We Shall Overcome", Sanders leant into the microphone, earphones positioned like a rock star, decrying "war, starvation, the degradation of our environment" in a pronounced Brooklyn accent.
And if they're being leant on to build and test backdoors to afford UK intelligence agencies access to their systems we may never know as there's no legal route for them to tell their users what's happening.
The PBOC has been trying to reform the way it manages the yuan by making it more market-driven and transparent, apparently having leant lessons from policy missteps in the past, including the criticism of its August devaluation.
Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics said the PBOC's reluctance to use its FX reserves to support the yuan showed it had leant a lesson from 2015-16, when its interventions failed to stem rapid falls in reserves.
The polling company also said that when it asked undecided voters which direction they leant, this time there was a 36 percent to 33 percent split in favor of "Remain", while two weeks ago it was 47/32.
That's what Dick Boak, the director of the Martin Guitar Museum, reportedly thought when he was told a priceless, 145-years-old guitar – which his museum leant to be used in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight – had been destroyed.
A hefty list of artists and celebrities leant their time to the cause including Dustin Yellin, Zoe Buckman, Julian Schnabel, Keith Richards, Slash, Rita Ora, Jason deCaires Taylor, Liu Bolin, PEJAC, Baron von Fancy, Michael DeFeo, and Bruce Weber.
Beijing has increased restrictions on overseas acquisitions in recent months and has leant on domestic banks to reduce lending that helped fuel the shopping spree and saw local firms spending a record $221 billion on assets overseas in 2016.
I was trying a handplant, 180 kind of thing, into the small bowl, but I leant too far back, fell off, looked around to see where my board went and—BAM, it came down and hit me in the head. Chyzzz.
Like trying to make out with a high school crush, Jones suddenly went silent and leant in for a kiss towards Judd, which ended in her yelping "ooh!" as an indication that nope, nope, nope, she did not want to go there.
So Phil just sat down at this trestle table with all their food and I looked over to him and I went "by the way, we're all tripping" and then I leant on the table so all the food went in their laps.
I was trying to decide whether or not to spend money fixing it up when the good folks at Electra Bicycle Co. leant me one of theirs to use for a few weeks, on the one condition that I wear a helmet (done).
And while Italian bank Intesa SanPaolo leant the Singapore vehicle 5.2 billion euros to fund the deal, and Qatar put in 2.5 billion, the sources of funding for nearly a quarter of the purchase price have not been disclosed by any of the parties.
"We used to roll the skulls down the hill to see who could get theirs furthest," said one elderly man with a chuckle as he leant on his staff-like walking stick and gestured up at the cave from the doorstep of his hillside house.
And while Italian bank Intesa SanPaolo leant the Singapore vehicle 21 billion euros to fund the deal, and Qatar put in 259.2518 billion, the sources of funding for nearly a quarter of the purchase price have not been disclosed by any of the parties.
Upstart, a nearly five-year-old online lending company that prides itself on quickly identifying people who are less likely to default on money leant them, has raised $32.5 million in fresh funding that brings its total funding to date to around $85 million.
He saved five break points in the eighth game of the final set before serving it out and he was greeted by near delirium on Court 17 before being swallowed up by the hugs of friends and family as he leant over the barriers.
When I was a lad, slurping soda through a straw in the local social club of a Sunday lunchtime, only one thing had my absolute attention: said smoky den's sole arcade cabinet, leant against a wall, almost in the way of the pool table.
"There were at least four live ones on my shirt, another two crushed on my shoulder, and a blood stain on the back of my shirt where I must have leant back on a full-size (and full-stomached) one," Zane Selkirk wrote at the time.
AMID a frenzy of honking, a young woman leant out of the window of a car, one of the hundreds that besieged the headquarters of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party in Ankara, making an Islamist salute with her left hand and an ultranationalist one with her right.
On the Rue Montmartre, the Deliveroo riders leant toward the view of Macron - a former banker who tried to push through liberal reforms as economy minister from 2014-16 - even though they work as self-employed contractors without protections such as accident insurance that salaried staff automatically enjoy.
That reliance on minor notes (ie: the sad-sounding ones), and a key change between the verse and the following song segment is also what leant "Un-Break My Heart" its "I feel like shit but also don't you sort of feel like you're flying while listening to this" vibe.
Together they formed a broad coalition that successfully ended the ten-year rule of Mr Rajapaksa, under whom the army brutally crushed a quarter-century rebellion by minority Tamils, but whose government also leant towards nepotism, repression and cronyism, and towards China rather than such traditional partners as India and the West.
Though his first EP Dear Daisy carried a style that initially leant more toward open-mic nights, inspired by Breaks, his second EP, 23 Winters—an intense exploration on love, self-worth and the African immigrants' experience in the UK—moved him beyond the realms of poetry and toward exquisitely produced, high end musical art.
It would have been nice if more of the people who leant their support online to make the summit happen had shown up to experience the conversation, and it will certainly be a long road to significant change if the only people in the room continue to be the women who are already excruciatingly aware of the problem.
Perhaps that's partly due to an element of mistrust around mainstream platforms controlled by tech giants who might be leant on by states to block content (Tsunami Democràtic has said it doesn't yet have an iOS version of its app, despite many requests for one, because the 'politics of the App Store is very restrictive' — making a direct reference to Apple pulling the HKmaps app from its store).
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads     Fungal vein of lightning you crept inside my father twice through his umbrella to the ground quickly as a more serious sleep and preparation for cancer's end That a day could copy like graphite's rub over engraved symbols this quiet which is his but leant and to us left unfixed this onward slipping An onward in him fixed What else could I do but burn         A dark rag like an animal on a rural highway twists with a fear of being Picking it up I have to imagine the future of the person who dropped it Lessons a silent father might share as if giving more to carry with the ways to carry   *   *   *   Daniel Moysaenko, a Ukrainian-American poet, is the author of the chapbook New Animal (H_NGM_N Books, 2015).

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