21.   While former Chancellor Helmut Kohl championed the project, the new government leans toward scrapping it in favor of better preserving existing memorials, such as former concentration camps.

22.   Western diplomats say the government is leaning on them to influence the Croats to do more.

23.   With the failure of an attempt at negotiations to end the crisis, the government has increasingly leaned on the press to help turn the tide.

24.   Economic experts here said the government was leaning toward ending free services or taxing some public services such as health care, education, water and electricity.

25.   On the eve of the EU summit, the conservative The Times and Daily Telegraph quoted ministers as saying the government was leaning towards Santer despite his federalist tendences.