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.
This led to work with legendary British director David Lean on the Oscar-winning Ryan's Daughter, and at around the same time he also worked with two 20th Century icons in Sinatra and Elvis.
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.
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.
Lean on the side of over-communicating to teams and customers.
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The three-generation Gloer family says families need to remember to lean on each other during the hard times.
The 40-year-old has endured some lean years following a knee injury but two wins on the PGA Tour this season suggest he may yet add to his major tally.
Look, obviously if you -- I think the President would always lean on the American people knowing as much as they possibly can.
Overall, this fitness site is lean on graphics but the editors promise to work on that and add new features including a Spanish-language version in the near future.
More and more companies have started paying out in past years a way to reward investors for the lean years during the financial crisis and scant potential among fixed-income products drove up the valuation on those stocks.
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In other cases, the involvement was indirect and open-ended: in South Korea, for instance, the government leaned and continues to lean on commercial banks to finance the move into chip making by the country's family-controlled conglomerates.
To avoid that outcome, the diplomacy-firsters will have to lean a lot harder on Iraq.
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The plunge-pool-equipped Windward Pavilions are the largest (1, 291 square feet) of Qualia's 60 accommodations, and also lean heavily on views for decoration--floor-to-ceiling windows bring the blue sea in, with a counterpoint of contemporary furniture in similar shades.
But the cure that doctors lean on most heavily mood-altering drugs works only when pills are taken regularly for long periods.
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We wouldn't lean on earlier versions of Android, regardless of what features you like -- the interface rewrite cuts off support for OS releases before Android 3.2.
They both rely on lean direct-sales operations to sell their products to techies working deep in the bowels of large corporations.
Volkswagen, a much larger company that can lean on its higher-margin luxury brands and strong global operations, has been able to weather the storm more easily by cutting prices and taking market share from weaker rivals like Fiat, Peugeot, Ford Motor and General Motors.
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The image of the lean, lanky, leather jacket-clad figure with the pale skin and mop of white hair was splashed on television screens and websites.
The uncertainty of the past half-decade leaves businesses with lean work forces and aging capital and leaves households sitting on too much cash.
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Today, Barbee is focused on what she describes as a "lean and mean" seven-episode arc, which will begin with the finale's battle before jumping ahead a couple of weeks.
The same cannot, however, be said of the illustrations, which lean heavily on pop culture and advertising imagery from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and have a late-20th-century art director's fingerprints all over them.
That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
Where his predecessor Finck made plans for an elaborate headquarters campus and even put down a deposit on a 727 jet--the deal was never consummated--Musselman has kept headquarters staff lean.
In case you missed the 43-year-old Facebook executive speaking with Oprah or on the cover of Time, the thesis of her "Lean In" book is this: We have educated a generation of women well, but too few make it to the top rungs.
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