lean forward

v. phr. to be proactive; to initiate a process or action. Subjects: English, Government

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Citations: 1995 Central Intelligence Agency Air War College (Australia) (Dec.) “A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes”: When seasoned and skeptical DI analysts believe they have made their case by a careful scrubbing of ample all-source information, they should lean forward in making their conclusions precise and clear to the policy officials responsible for management of the issue. 1997 Carole Landry (Agence France-Press) (Apr. 22) “US takes slow and steady approach to urge North Korea towards peace”: Snyder said South Korea should “lean forward just enough to get things started but without giving away leverage” on North Korea, which has in the past pocketed concessions without offering any of their own. 1999 Political Transcripts by Federal Document Clearing House (Feb. 24) “House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing On FY 2000 Defense Budget”: When we have a problem or a concern, he leans forward to address it but it’s done with integrity and in the scope of honor, one for which you’re proud of. 2000 Political Transcripts by Federal Document Clearing House (Oct. 19) “U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Holds A Hearing On The Recent Attack In Yemen On The USS Cole”: We took that a step further, and now we have cooperative targeting to begin with, what we call federated targeting. So I think the intelligence community has really leaned forward to help us. 2001 Fox News: Hannity & Colmes (May 15) “Are Senate Democrats Fighting Amongst Themselves?”: I am told that probably prices are not going to be as bad by August as people currently worry about, but I think the president ought to be leaning forward to help people have enough gasoline, not just cavalierly sort of shrug it off. 2006 Tom Kington, Gerard O’Dwyer Defense News (May 15) “JSF Partners Italy, Norway Reaffirm Support” p. 4: The green light from the U.S. government on a Final Assembly and Check Out line is an example that the U.S. government is leaning forward to address Italy’s aspirations for technology transfer. 2006 Bill Walsh Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) (June 18) “Chertoff cites gaps in storm preparation”: In the parlance of hurricane preparedness, Chertoff made clear in the letter that the federal government is “leaning forward” to assist Louisiana this hurricane season, something it was accused of failing to do last year. He said the federal government has prestaged an unprecedented amount of emergency supplies throughout the region. 2006 Lou Dobbs CNN (June 23) “Lou Dobbs Tonight”: It seems to me that the government should lean forward and it shouldn’t wait until these plots become operational. It should move in at the aspirational stage, and apparently that’s what the FBI did here.

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