Sentence examples for run a lean from inspiring English sources
How could such a man not run a lean government operation?
All this overlooks the fact that Carroll's CV hints that she brings the prime quality Anglo needs - an ability to run a lean operation.
As a budget official in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he developed a reputation as a pragmatic thinker on fiscal matters, inclined to run a lean and efficient government, but skeptical of ideological extremes.
Some companies, however, continue to run a lean business and even increase efficiency as they grow.
For the cynic, there is logic at work here: let the administrator do the nasty culling, then come back to run a leaner, debt-free operation.
The Post's executive editor, Marcus W. Brauchli, above, said that the change reflected "the increasing overlap of political and economic events" and allows The Post "to run a leaner, better-organized newspaper".
Mozilo's secret is to run a leaner shop than the others and work the housing cycles better, gambling when he senses a boom coming.
The move was part of an effort to run a leaner operation that focused primarily on hunkering down in the early states a feat that John McCain's high-flying turned shoestring operation pulled off successfully in 2008.
Just as important, though, is running a lean business.
