(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.
Meant
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Mean
() imp. & p. p. of Mean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(3) At least any notion that this tournament had meant little to the European champions can be dispelled.
(4) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
(5) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(6) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(7) The model is meant to overcome the diffusional limitations, caused by a microcapsulated membrane.
(8) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(9) Today’s mortality statistics do not simply point to the death of disabled, poor, and ill people but of the system that was meant to protect them.
(10) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
(11) This meant Phil Jones was pressed into starting despite not being completely match-fit.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) "When someone else in the house said they knew what I meant about sleepless nights, or about my lack of sex drive, they really did understand," says Andy.
(14) A local resident, who did not give his name, said the site was only meant to hold a smaller structure and said officials turned a blind eye to the problem.
(15) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(16) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
(17) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
(18) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
(19) Or we publish only with decent publishers, who believe that books are meant to be read and not simply profited from.
(20) Eric Van der Kleij, Level39 puts this is down to the alignment of a few stars: The financial crisis meant that a few financial services giants stopped investing in R&D.