Sentence examples for a skeletal crew from inspiring English sources

As a result, most of the Russian subs sit in port on a short fuse, ready to launch on warning, with a skeletal crew dockside ready to fire a missile within 10 minutes.

"We have a skeletal crew ready to be here 24/7 if we need to".

The benefit, part of the administration's job-creating stimulus, failed to prevent the company from shuttering its doors and laying off 1,100 people, excluding a skeletal crew that includes Miller.

The only city employees scheduled to work those traditionally high-absenteeism days will be police officers, firefighters, 911 center employees and a skeletal crew in departments like Streets and Sanitation, Water, Aviation and Family Services.

Bypass was shot last year on location in Gateshead, the working class town on the southern bank of the River Tyne, over the course of nine weeks with a skeletal crew and a budget of around £1 million ($1.6 million).

Bypass was shot last year on location in Gateshead, the working class town on the southern bank of the River Tyne, over the course of nine weeks with a skeletal crew and a budget of around £1 million.

With an increasingly skeletal crew (300 and falling), Mr. Diggins, a quiet, blunt 47-year-old seasoned by years of opprobrium and protest toward the place in which he will spend the bulk of his career, will be, in essence, the city's last man at Fresh Kills.

I was about to become an Architecture Manager (a sort of business development specialist) and join the skeletal crew at Intel's newly opened Budapest office.

"If anything can be taken from the case it's that we can't ratchet down budgets and streamline staff down to skeletal crews and expect everything to go smoothly all the time," said Pearson.

The reception was a reunion of the skeletal movie crew and the producers, plus a sold-out crowd of 225, many of them friends of those involved.

Work crews were erecting a huge tent by inserting a skeletal structure of bamboo poles into the ground.