The programme has a relatively lean organizational structure.

Lean, efficient things. Healthy products.

I lean toward accepting the proposal.

There are exceptions, but we lean towards being a nation of bullies.

But it meant a lot to have Global Voices as a network to lean on.

The main challenge is therefore to promote or strengthen lean but effective institutional frameworks that recognize the role and contribution of each stakeholder through a process of participation, empowerment and knowledge sharing at all levels.

One the one hand, I have a husband who's annoyingly lean and incredibly handsome.

This would explain the increase in lean body mass.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

About every 10 steps, they lean back and try to take a chunk out of your leg.

Women lean forward in their chairs, dabbing their eyes with tissues.

Lean against me, calm your fears, Count thy blessings, not thy years.

Europeans lean toward dialogue and incentives, the US toward isolation and penalties.

Someone who is not afraid of the Israelis and thus can lean on them and produce a settlement in Palestine.

Only central banks typically lenders of last resort lean against the hurricane strength winds.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

Particularly in an age of lean governments and public austerity, success in meeting such targets should become a key performance indicator.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Meanwhile, the emerging powers continue to lean toward bilateralism and are aligning themselves with other countries.

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine

The world remains in a very delicate transitional phase, and it is not clear yet in which direction the G 20 will lean.

There is an indication that gut flora in obese and lean individuals can affect the metabolic potential.

These arguments lean towards the nurture side of the argument that language is acquired through sensory experience.

If it does occur, Syria will push Lebanon into a peace treaty with Israel and lean on Hezbollah heavily to adjust to the new realities.

I lean slightly toward the optimistic scenario, but investors and policymakers alike need to understand the ramifications of a return to more normal volatility levels.

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Why not just, instead of pushing left and right with a mouse or with a joypad, why not use your body just to lean on the chair again, relaxed?

He's 29 years old, very well built, lean, he's six foot, five, weighs 265 lbs., and he is down.

Second, given their limited leverage, Afghanistan s neighbors must lean hard on countries that can influence any future Afghan government.

UNITAR should endeavour to maintain that level to guard against lean periods when funding may drop for various reasons.

Finally, due process is just that a process.

Quality, cost, delivery (QCD), sometimes expanded to QCDMS (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morale, Safety), as used in lean manufacturing measures a business' activity and develops Key performance indicators.

When I was 19, I wrote, I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

In 2007, researchers isolated the adipose gene, which those researchers hypothesize serves to keep animals lean during times of plenty.

While lending is progressively thinned out and retained only for the poorest countries, the Bank must adopt the lean hub and spoke structure of a strategic consultancy or a knowledge bank.

Nonetheless, Khamenei s invocation of the law echoes the demands of many conservative pragmatists who lean toward Mousavi, who is not in a position to challenge Khamenei s authority directly.

Smoking or salting meat of livestock butchered in autumn was a common household strategy to avoid having to feed more animals than necessary during the lean winter months.

And the king said Lo ! I saw in a dream seven fat kine which seven lean were eating , and seven green ears of corn and other ( seven ) dry .

The process capability is a measurable property of a process to the specification, expressed as a process capability index (e.g., Cpk or Cpm) or as a process performance index (e.g., Ppk or Ppm).

It can therefore be described as a process optimization process.

Besides this random process, there is a second random process.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

Yohei Sasakawa of the Nippon Foundation remembers eating rice shipped from the country in the lean years after the war in Japan.

European prosecutors tend to lean to the left, whereas their Latin American and Japanese counterparts tend to be conservative and pro establishment.