Sentence examples for ever leaner from inspiring English sources

On Wall Street, where shareholder "value" is vigorously pursued through ever leaner and meaner organizations, business as usual changed abruptly on September 11 , 2001

Perhaps it makes sense that his music seems to be getting ever leaner, as if searching for some nugget, some essence.

The risk-management budget should perhaps be seen as separate from the operating and capital budgets, he suggests, to allow risks and their potential costs to be dealt with more directly.The limits to leannessAre competitive pressures pushing companies towards running their logistics operations ever leaner?

Have they ever leaned away from you whilst looking at their phone?

I lean forward as hard as I've ever leaned, except on the corners, which are muddy, and look as if they could be slippy.

"I wish I could step free/of every weight I ever leaned my weight upon," he wrote in "Let the Good Things Come," which opens the tribute album in a version by David Gray that despairs of any such possibility.

Win or lose on Saturday afternoon – and the betting, as ever, leans strongly towards a win – Frankel's status as one of racing's greatest champions is already secure.

Raymond A. Firestone Stamford, Conn., July 25, 2010 To the Editor: My immediate reaction to your engaging and informative report was to wonder: Couldn't the framers of the Constitution have ensured that the Supreme Court would not ever lean dangerously too far right or left by limiting justices' tenure to two four-year terms?

The Mets, more than ever, leaned on Santana on Sunday night because the Phillies had dominated the first two games of this series, no doubt reminding fans of last September, when their weekend sweep at Shea helped them overcome a seven-game lead with 17 to play.

Mr. Weis must navigate these challenges with an ever-leaner department.

The market becomes ever freer, leaner and purer and wafts toward the empyrean, lifting us all skyward.