Last Monday at 6pm, Cruddas and most of the other remaining 231 Labour MPs (26 fewer than a week before) crammed into committee room 14 in the House of Commons to hear Harriet Harman, the acting leader, attempt to lift the depleted, demoralised parliamentary party off the floor.
Guts, sinew, spleen, backbone, heart: frankly, given their depleted physique it is a miracle England's players can even drag themselves off the team bus.
We do not have to look hard for examples of man's arrogance, ignorance or ineptitude, his evidence of destruction; the fossil fuels burned, the seas and lands depleted, the habitats and ecosystems disturbed.
Fast forward to Wednesday night and the Quakes-killer Mike Magee "assisted" in driving in the final nail (or goal) in the Chicago Fire's 3-2 win over a very depleted Quakes side.
And thank goodness somebody has turned up because it's not looking good up there – Mance was clearly telling the truth when he told Jon "we're here to hide behind your wall" while the Night Watch are severely depleted.
BG It would have been nice if the unlikely League One table-toppers, Leyton Orient, were not so depleted as they head to Championship strugglers Yeovil Town, especially as Russell Slade would no doubt savour a win at a club where he achieved feats similar to the one he is enacting at Orient before being sacked amid acrimony in 2009.
She didn't just see Baghdad but found a way to Fallujah, and witnessed the disturbing sign of birth defects likely caused by US-fired depleted uranium.
In the same press conference room where he had on Saturday faced down questions over Fifa's culture of corruption and his knowledge of a $10m bribe alleged by US prosecutors to have been routed to the former Concacaf president Jack Warner, Blatter cut a depleted figure.
Even those that remain from that team have been depleted by the experience.
The prospect of power shortages is likely to alarm ministers, who are concerned that an already depleted system could be exposed by a small number of temporary shutdowns at crucial plants.
As we deplete our ability to denote and figure particular aspects of our places, so our competence for understanding and imagining possible relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.
