Instead of just a humdrum pie shell that serves as a container for the filling, Tosi dreamed up a shell that begins with a homemade oat cookie blended with a bit more butter, sugar and a healthy dash of salt.
These composite shells are formed by pouring concrete on a thin stiffened steel base shell that serves as both the permanent formwork and the tensile steel reinforcement.
The Republican Party of New York City may be an empty shell, but it's a shell that serves an important function -- giving people a choice.
It's hard to believe, but 10 years ago the 100-room Governor Hotel, 611 Southwest 10th Avenue, (800) 554-3456, fax (503) 241-2122, www.govhotel.com, was a dilapidated shell that served as a set for Gus Van Sant's film "My Own Private Idaho".
Up ahead, on an island off Beacon, stood a crumbling castle bearing the words "Bannerman's Island Arsenal," a five-story brick shell that served as a munitions warehouse from 1908 until a fire gutted it in the 1960s.
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) from the surface of a protein can generate remarkably dense polymer shells that serve as armor and rationally tune protein function.
Today parties are mostly empty shells that serve as vehicles for strong personalities.
As I was seated facing south, in the direction of the town closest to me, Damascus, I tried to guess where on the horizon I'd see the first stray green or red or blue shell -- the one that serves as a five-minute warning that the show's about to start.
Here, the independent parts are merged to a very thin and light-weight but solid concrete shell having a highly precise inner surface that serves as substrate for mirror elements.
The soldiers lift weights when they can, although incoming mortar shells have had an uncanny attraction for the weight room and the plywood hut that serves as the latrine.
Manafort was even tied to the same Belize shell company that served as a conduit for illicit funds from corrupt leaders in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.
