Word: leans
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...challenge now is to persuade Shi'ite and Kurdish parties that he will serve their interests better than al-Maliki did. If history is any judge, he'll have an easier time with the Kurds, who lean toward secularism, than the Shi'ites...
...muscled body of a boa constrictor. But Pacquiao came into his training camp in great shape, and his sparring at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood has been crisp and lively; Roach predicts a knockout. Still, it could be a tactically riveting duel, because Clottey likes to lean on the ropes, while Pacquiao will probably try to dive in close, hit him with combinations and then get out of the way of Clottey's uppercuts. (See a profile of Manny Pacquiao in the 2009 TIME...
Outside we lean against the railing, as high up as we can go, Boston’s lights laid out in front of us. Right here, says Dave, this is where we should...
...Roger Casement rarely failed to make a deep, lasting, highly favourable impression,” Goodman tells us. He quotes a fellow activist, Edmund Morel, recalling his first impressions of Casement: “I saw before me a man, my own height, very lithe and sinewy... A long lean, swarthy Vandyke type of face, graven with power and withal of great gentleness.” Casement emerges as a brave and sensitive campaigner with a strong sense of moral purpose, dogged in his pursuit of Arana, who, having driven out all competition for rubber-production in Iquitos...
...legs don't quite match their tanned, toned ones, even after weeks of training. But as Khan runs, arms and legs pumping, his body seems to rejuvenate with the effort. He can't manage more than one take, but it's enough, and the camera captures the moment - the lean lines of a born runner, angling into the bend...