Sentence examples for leanings began from inspiring English sources

"I went to hardcore shows," said Shannon, the vocalist of the metal band Activator, whose punk leanings began during his childhood in Rockaway, Queens.

But then Jeopardy!'s socialist leanings began to show.

The political character of the O.C.'s sprawling suburbs have changed over the years as socially liberal voters abandoned the Republican Party and Asian-American families with more moderate political leanings began flowing in.

Mr. Ryan's remarkable rise from small-town prom king to the No. 2 on the Republican presidential ticket reflects a combination of sheer will and patience, with the ideological leanings that began in Janesville and were cultivated in Washington finally finding their moment on a raised platform in Norfolk, Va., on Saturday morning.

Fearing Mr. Ecevit was too weak to lead the party into early elections, members of his left-leaning party began to abandon ship.

The playwright Alan Bennett remembered dozing off during a rehearsal and waking suddenly when the fourth-story window he was leaning against began to give way.

So many people from so many left-leaning organizations began showing up that School of the Americas Watch, which runs the protest, rented the local convention center for seminars and concerts.

Then journalists from right-leaning newspapers began to seek details of the number of bedrooms in assorted bishops' palaces – a counter-attack after church leaders last year condemned the coalition's bedroom tax as unjust.

But Democrats running in tough races in conservative-leaning states began to lobby the White House to delay the move until after the November midterm election.

The Le Nouvel Observateur, a left-leaning magazine, began a petition in support of Enderlin that was signed by 300 French writers, accusing Karsenty of a seven-year hate-filled smear campaign.

Canada has also stepped up deportations of refugee candidates suspected of terrorist leanings and begun using fraud-resistant identity cards for foreign permanent residents.