There is regular allusion to a table which their Uncle Julian admits "is overlarge now for the pitiful remnant of our family".
Keeping the royal in the Royal Easter show happens a couple of times a decade and gives a lot of pleasure to the remnant grazier class who bring their sheep and cattle to town every Easter in the hope of ribbons.
They could team up with the remnant Liberal Democrats, Northern Ireland's DUP and a couple of Ukippers and still not reach the magic number.
When he finally slips away, a remnant of Italy's long-forgotten monarchy will be lost for ever.
Ironically, Hegarty and I get off to a shaky start, owing to my turning up to interview him with my own croaking voice, a remnant from a virus.
Where once it could claim to be a central part of rural life – hymned by writers as varied as RS Surtees, Anthony Trollope and Siegfried Sassoon – hunting now seems an add-on, a quaint remnant.
This indicates the degree to which the remnant led by al-Zawahiri have become, at best, only one player among many.
Together with the Citizens United decision of 2010, Mr Breyer charged, McCutcheon "eviscerates our Nation's campaign-finance laws, leaving a remnant incapable of dealing with the grave problems of democratic legitimacy that those laws were intended to resolve".
The result was that operating systems ended up being littered with depictions of things that had never existed inside a digital device; the on-screen "trash" icon is not the vestigial remnant of an actual trash can that was once part of the computer, which is why it is really a metaphor, not a skeumorph.
There is, for example, a huge area south of the last remnant of remaining natural marsh on the Iran-Iraq border, Hawizeh, which has been flooded for six months but where nothing grows.In this section One-third of paradise Oceans apart Are dogs people too?
A billion poor people depend on forests and remnant woodlands for their basic survival, according to the UN.So are forests doomed?
