Sentence examples for severe lean from inspiring English sources

"Internal food security analysis shows that South Sudan will face the most severe lean season in 2016 since its independence, driven by insecurity, poor harvests, and displacement in some areas of the country," said a UN World Food Programme WFPP) report published on Monday.

Thunder Horse subsequently developed a severe lean but was rescued and brought upright; this well may be another indication of the risks inherent in very large-size rigs.

His jaw muscles turn knotty, and if the problem is truly severe, he will lean heavily on the word "sir" as though it were his one good leg.

Critical illness induces a hypercatabolic response with severe wasting of lean tissue [1, 2].

Our team has shown that even a 9-month exposure to ADT leads to significant reductions in bone mass across different clinical sites concurrent with severe loss of lean mass and increased trunk and whole body fat mass, all surrogate indicators of osteoporosis/skeletal fractures and cardiovascular/metabolic complications [ 15].

Lean, severe-looking men, their tanned legs shrink-wrapped in biking shorts, stood beside graceful bikes with colored panniers that held their gear.

Art Deco is the dominant gene in Mr. Melbostad's inspirations, which fuses the utilitarian ur-sport of 1920s Chanel with a lean toward severe New York sophistication.

Excessive caloric intake in these patients translates into high plasma non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA), increased triglyceride storage in lean tissues, severe insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Women with very severe obesity (411) and lean women (138) at ~16 weeks' gestation were assessed and following exclusions, data on 190 very severely obese and 118 lean control women were analysed (ESM Fig.  1).

He entered the room to a remarkable lack of astonishment, a lean and rather severe figure, dressed in plain black but for a clerical collar and an unadorned silver pectoral cross.

Tall and lean, with a severe and narrow face and wire-frame glasses, Behzad is an impatient and anxious urban type who falls under the spell of the village, a pink stucco paradise of mazelike passageways, all of its mysteries imbued with a hidden erotic life and a fecundity that mock his restless professional existence.