(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.
Levant
Definition:
(a.) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
(n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
(n.) A levanter (the wind so called).
(a.) Eastern.
(v. i.) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(2) President Obama announced on Friday that in the "days ahead" he will decide on a package of military and diplomatic options to halt the rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) , as the jihadist army's march from Syria through Sunni Iraq has upended Obama's achievement of extricating the US military from the Iraq conflict.
(3) The troops, drawn from US special operations forces, will assist the Iraqi military to develop and execute a counter-offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
(4) Searches of their homes revealed images of Islamic propaganda on both of their computers, including images of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) flags and martyr literature.
(5) Western officials fear JFS will not only dominate the jihadi landscape in the Levant following the defeat of Isis, but may also provide a springboard for al-Qaida to launch strikes into Europe, should the group change its current strategy.
(6) With a better head-to-head record against Madrid, Atlético can now clinch the domestic crown by winning two of their remaining three games at Levante, at home against Málaga, and then at Barcelona on the last day of the season, 18 May.
(7) "In reality, the invasion and occupation of Iraq had been a disaster long before the recent gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
(8) Supporters of the Islamic State (Isis), previously known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, dismissed the story as propaganda based on a fake document – though residents of Mosul, as well as Kurdish officials, insisted it was true.
(9) "Isil members managed to kidnap the Turkish consul and 24 of his guards and assistants," a police colonel told AFP, referring to the jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as Isis .
(10) The players know each other, they’re two teams with a special rivalry but that rivalry has to remain positive.” But Diop, who launched into a dance routine in May 2014 when playing for Levante in response to racist chanting from Atlético Madrid fans, insisted Suárez should have been sent off as well.
(11) Shiraz Maher, a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which monitors overseas fighters, said the two had been members of the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant which has been involved with clashes with the al-Nusra Front.
(12) Navas joined Madrid in a £7m move from Levante last year and is regarded as a fine shot-stopper but vulnerable to crosses and, at 6ft, shorter than most of the goalkeepers in the Premier League.
(13) Analysts say JAN now appears to be in competition with the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," which controls parts of northern Syria.
(14) Results: [Celta 1 - 3 Atlético], [Real Madrid 6 - 2 Málaga], Getafe 0-1 Valencia, Granada 3-0 Osasuna, Sevilla 1-2 Real Sociedad, Levante 2-3 Rayo, Deportivo 2-0 Espanyol, Zaragoza 1-2 Athletic, Barcelona 2-1 Valladolid, Mallorca v Betis tonight Latest La Liga table .
(15) Khan, with school friend Nasser Muthana and a third man named as Abdul Raqib Amin, from Aberdeen, appear in a recruitment video for the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
(16) As it stands, Atletico are still top despite their defeat at Levante last week after they were let off the hook by Barcelona and Real Madrid, who also dropped points last week.
(17) But while his team-mates were largely scattered around the top flight, he was exiled to Levante.
(18) There was fighting with militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant along the road to Latakia, the Syrians said, and it was too dangerous to travel.
(19) The 25-year-old was an unused substitute in Saturday’s Primera Division win over Levante on his return from international duty, while reports in Spain said he also sat out training on Monday.
(20) Marcelo fired Real ahead in the 27th minute at the Bernabéu when he exchanged passes with Ronaldo and blasted the ball past Rubén in the Levante goal.