Sentence examples for both leaner from inspiring English sources

After a bailout that has made the British government its largest and most influential shareholder, the bank's once cosseted executives are adjusting to a life that is both leaner and meaner.

One commentator asked if this might be Citi's "Howard Stern hire", a reference to the enormous pay package the shock-jock negotiated with Sirius, a satellite-radio broadcaster.The bank admits that overall headcount and expenses will grow as it tries to pull off the trick of becoming both leaner and bigger.

With respect to Mr. Scorsese, the original Chinese film on which it was based, 2002's "Infernal Affairs", was both leaner and meaner, with no hammy Jack Nicholson performance to distract you.

They both leaned back, imagining it.

(They were both lean, fair Midwesterners with winning smiles).

Both lean backward and try to stop as the big door comes closer and closer.

You can both lean from and prop a basket on the Niwaki ladder.

(As the good and evil brothers Edgar and Edmund, Gwilym Lee and Alec Newman both lean toward hysteria).

The orchestra was both lean and vivid; the silvery metallic color of period stringed instruments shone with a warm vitality.

But they are obvious Beatles fans, slipping harmonic twists and chiseled lyrics behind graceful melodies, and both lean toward ballads.

Colorado and Washington, whose regimes took effect last year, both lean Democratic, as does Oregon, where legalisation will begin on July 1st.