Composed mostly of a carbohydrate called chitin, insect cuticle differs from keratin-based human cuticle, the tough skin at the base of our fingernails.
"He's the base of our franchise," Waddell said of Kovalchuk.
Second, we should widen the recruiting base of our intelligence services.
We continue to take action to control the cost base of our operations.
"Political change actually comes from the democratic base of our society".
Pity shouldn't be the only spur for us to remember our values, though pity, I recognise, is at the base of our morality.
We want our physical aggression to be the absolute base of our game, which is what England sides previously had in the 1990s and up to 2003.
"Rap is part of that spoken tradition," he said, "and representative of the spontaneity of invention, and is associated with the broad base of our democracy".
John S. Varley, Barclays' chief executive, said the effect of the sale "will be further to broaden the base of our share register".
"Do the British people see our leader as a potential prime minister and have we broadened the base of our project in the country ?
One of his early backers, Ray LaHood, the Illinois Republican congressman, told me bluntly, "To get the nomination, McCain had to appeal to the base of our party".
