Sentence examples for attempting to lean from inspiring English sources

When you wear a camera on your lapel, you find that you're always conscious of the thing, ever adjusting it and attempting to lean into potential photo experiences.

It would be a grave error to attempt to "lean on Russia" without taking into account the current mood in Russian society and arrogantly disregarding the opinion of millions of Russian voters.

France's CGT trade union has been accused of a "scandalous" attempt to lean on the press after it prevented almost all of Thursday's French national newspapers from being printed, as part of escalating nationwide strike action against the government's changes to labour laws.

The UN has attempted to lean hard on North Korea in recent months, with a rounds of sanctions aimed at preventing the country pursuing its nuclear program.

When the President considered striking Syria in 2013, he made no attempt to lean on the 2001 law, and was prepared to seek a new congressional authorization.

Of course, at that point the investigation wasn't into Trump's alleged attempt to lean on Comey to curtail the investigation into Michael Flynn.

The protests were sparked by Mr Compaoré's attempts to lean on the parliament to lift a two-term limit on his time in office that he had rashly written into the constitution.

With Ted Chaough in California, she's an underling all over again, humiliated despite her hard work and brassy attempts to lean in ("I guess I'm immune to your charms," her boss tells her).

The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanöe, a Socialist, said, "If the facts are verified, it would be a huge state scandal because it would mean there had been an attempt to lean on the judges".

"These seem to be examples of an attempt to lean on a newspaper and prevent it going about its legitimate business," Mr Gallagher said.

"This morning we learn of a wholly improper attempt to lean on members of an independent select committee of this House by Mr Duncan Smith and his parliamentary team to try to put the blame on the permanent secretary".