(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Coulson leant heavily on his lobby team at the News of the World, and does not claim to be a deep political thinker.
(3) But her work "is constantly unstable, in flux; leant against a wall, hovering, or so fragile it might collapse.
(4) I leant forward to observe a white male of about 195lb having intercourse with a slight woman of Spanish descent with thick black pubic hair.
(5) Brazil’s players have leant on their spiritual beliefs in order to cope.
(6) "And then, as one of the nurses was leaving or passing by my bed, she leant over and said, 'the best you can do is stay in bed until he's gone and pretend to be asleep'," Owen said.
(7) Whether Ben Bernanke or Mario Draghi or Mervyn King , central bankers are being leant on by governments unwilling or unable to do their bit to boost the economy – either by spending more or by rethinking policy.
(8) "He leant on me to sort of be someone to talk to, to work things out, what he's going to do, what's going to happen to him," Obeid said of Macdonald, referring to the personal and political difficulties the minister experienced.
(9) If other companies aren't going to do it of their own volition, then maybe they should be leant on."
(10) With Salmond and Sturgeon posing for selfies and taking handshakes in a scrum of passersby, three young women leant out of the second-floor window of a nearby hairdressing salon yelled: "Go on yersel', Nicola", before starting up a chant of "Yes!
(11) We stand by this analysis and were not ‘leant on’.
(12) He says that he never meant either death to happen ('One died as a result of my inability to act and the other died as a direct result of my actions', was how he put it on the following day) and that afterwards, when he had pulled Holly from the bath and checked her pulse, which was still, leant his cheek to Jessica's mouth and felt for breath that wasn't there, he vomited in the hallway, and then sat huddled in the corner, in a kind of psychological freeze.
(13) We are a multicultural country and that means respecting culture in this question as much as in any other.” Morrison leant support to calls in some quarters for the proposal to be put to the public for a plebiscite.
(14) "When I tried to resolve the previous difficulties with Jo Dawson [HBOS group risk director 2004-2005 who eventually replaced Moore], she leant over the table – she stood up – pointed at me and said 'I'm warning you.
(15) In its successful effort to rebuff the "aiding the enemy" accusation, Manning's defence team leant heavily on web chats between the soldier and a transgender woman called Lauren McNamara, (who was at the time a man boing by the internet handle ZJ).
(16) The police leant on their patrol car, sweating in the noon heat.
(17) I and a few "riggers" were holding upright one of the four slabs of One Ton Prop (House of Cards) which leant against each other.
(18) He argued that while China did not officially have a preference - due to the country's doctrine of non-interference in other nations' domestic affairs - in reality it leant to Republicans.
(19) But the welcome given to the proposals by the industry and the outcry from reformers suggests the FCA has leant too far towards preserving access to short-term loans and not enough in the direction of vulnerable borrowers caught in a catastrophic spiral of debt.
(20) The ballerina-length hem was elegant – dressier than knee-length, more fashion-forward than a gown – while a diamond maple leaf brooch, leant by the Queen, added a diplomatic twinkle.
Leapt
Definition:
() of Leap
Example Sentences:
(1) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
(2) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
(3) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
(4) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(5) Questioner after questioner on the government benches leapt to defend Mr Hunt from a supposed rush to judgment.
(6) When it sounded the United goalkeeper leapt to his feet and grabbed Martin Skrtel, sparking a post-match melee, before collapsing in pain once again.
(7) This week, a new survey revealed that the number of packaged accounts available has leapt by 94% over the last four years, while the average monthly fee charged has jumped from just over £10 to almost £15 – or £178 a year.
(8) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.
(9) Hudson has always leapt about, working on titles from Fitness, to Company, to New Woman, to Maxim, to Eve.
(10) *applause* February 21, 2014 Reuters has more from the scene: After another open coffin was held aloft by the crowd, a protester wearing battle-fatigues leapt up to the microphone and triggered roars of approval as he declared: “By tomorrow we want him (Yanukovich) out!” Referring to the three opposition leaders, including boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, who were standing behind him, the man said: “My comrade was shot and our leaders shake the hand of a murderer.
(11) The only non-Kent town in the top five was Altrincham in Greater Manchester, where asking prices leapt by 21.9% to an average of £484,258.
(12) Critics of Peña Nieto leapt on Aristegui’s removal as evidence that the president was cracking down on a dissenting voice in a country where politicians enjoy considerable impunity and are rarely subject to serious scrutiny from much of the mainstream media.
(13) Wilfried Bony then leapt above John O’Shea to meet De Bruyne’s free kick.
(14) John Terry and Ledley King leapt to meet the rebound with the ball squirting away for Mata to volley from a tight angle into the mass of bodies in the goal-mouth.
(15) And the narrower claimant count measure leapt spectacularly through the 1 million barrier to 1.07 million in November, a rise of 75,700 from October - the biggest jump since March 1991 when the economy was also heading into a deep recession.
(16) They tell me I've earned it, to keep it, to squirrel it away – but if I was in it for the money I'd have leapt at the first advertising deal offered to me almost a year ago for an upmarket butter brand, and all the 50 or so since then.
(17) In the capital, prices leapt by 3.9% in January alone, to reach an average of £336,212.
(18) The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers , has leapt to the defence of Raheem Sterling, but insists there is no club versus country row between him and England’s manager, Roy Hodgson.
(19) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
(20) When the Ebola virus reached the US last year, the public health community leapt into action to address it.