The avid outdoorsman hacked down some cypress trees to make a lean-to.
Two tiny bedrooms, a lean-to kitchen, half a mile from the village.
Whether a lean-to on the side of the house, a garage, a repurposed laundry room or mudroom, an old shed or a new one, a potting room is the same for all gardeners a place of our own, to do what we love, where making a mess is just fine.
He would position his more than 6ft-tall frame practically chest-to-chest with someone he wanted to influence, and lean in nearly nose-to-nose as his quarry would try to squirm away.
First and foremost, however, we look closely at the balance sheet and make sure the company is fiscally sound, with a lean price-to-earnings ratio.
We typically bring in a team of experts to rework the development plan with a lean, fast-to-PoC project-financing mindset.
So they took a page out of the s0-called Lean Start-up methodology to do customer development, the practice of talking to potential customers.
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In this era of the lean, fast-to-market startup, the mobile app was developed in only one month and then tested for another month.
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Dickinson now eats 3, 000 calories a day -- mostly lean protein and vegetables -- to sustain his body-building lifestyle.
Had anyone seen the child during these two- and three-hour sessions, bringing his soles together and in to train the pectineus, bobbing slightly and then holding a deep cross-legged lean to work the great tight sheet of thoracolumbar fascia that connected his pelvis to his dorsal costae, he would have appeared to that person either prayerful or catatonic, or both.
Under pressure from the European Commission to eliminate state subsidies, and under pressure from governments to privatise, they have become lean and mean - and ready to compete with BA not only in their home markets, but also to challenge BA in its own heartland at Heathrow.
The 47-year-old has since come to lean on his mentor, 23-year-old Eric Leist, for guidance on everything from the latest smartphone apps to the layout for a new office.
"I tried to over-extend and lean, even though I didn't want to do that, " Fraser-Pryce said.
Essentially, Collison's tale tracks the scheming of the U.S., Soviet and Australian intelligence agencies as -- to the concern of all of them -- President Sukarno begins to lean toward China.
They both rely on lean direct-sales operations to sell their products to techies working deep in the bowels of large corporations.
PetSmart shares, which used to lean toward Target-level ( TGT) valuations, now trend closer to fast-growing companies like Chinese Internet provider Baidu ( BIDU), based in PE ratio.
Their meat is lower in saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories than grain-finished. (Because it is quite lean, cook rare to medium-rare for juiciness.) Grass-fed beef has a distinct flavor, often described as bold, complex, and gamy.
PetSmart shares, which used to lean toward Target-level valuations, now trend closer, in PE ratio, to those of diamond and Prada sellers.
And as I said, I think most economists -- even ones that tend to lean to the right or are more conservative -- would agree that that's not -- that's not the best way for us to approach deficit reduction and debt reduction.
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Startups are typically lean and even the well-funded ones are well-served to think like a lean companies to avoid squandering resources.
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To avoid that outcome, the diplomacy-firsters will have to lean a lot harder on Iraq.
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The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.
And they are furious with Mr Rumsfeld for risking the peace by sticking to his lean-warfare tactics.
But Motsepe's lean operating style--not to mention the sweet financing deal--made the shafts profitable in the first year, though the initial months were nerve-racking as gold continued to fall.
America will not sell Taiwan integrated air-defence and early-warning systems, though it did lean on Israel recently to cancel the sale of an early-warning radar to China.
Looking to stay lean, a growing number of start-ups and small firms are turning to crowdsourcing for a variety of one-off jobs, from simple data entry to software testing, Website design, advertising, marketing, or research and development.
Creating a low barrier to engagement, much like Twitter does, could create a third category to consider: lean-between.
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Engineering-first, hacker, lean-startup mentality is already beginning to disrupt traditional verticals.
Daimler has the technical know-how to develop lean and clean engines, but with the financials in such a weak state it cannot tie up the capital.
There's no getting around it: the Victory is a plump, weighty thing, and it doesn't even have a slide-out keyboard to lean on as an excuse.
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