The chancellor drew jeers from largely shell-shocked Labour MPs when he warned "the benefits system should not support lifestyles and rents that are not available to the taxpayers who pay for that system".
As a result of a withering campaign of U.S. drone strikes, Al Qaeda central is largely a shell of its former self in Afghanistan-Pakistan, and its local affiliate in Yemen is suffering.
After he was thawed — which took less than 24 hours because his internal organs had been removed during a necropsy, leaving a largely empty shell — the taxidermists took measurements using a cloth tape and calipers.
Situated in a French manor-style house that was once the home of a notorious Chinese mob boss, the Mansion Hotel has been rehabilitated from a largely abandoned shell that as recently as last spring had badly sagging wood floors.
Walking through the largely finished shell of the project — Miley Cyrus cavorting on a giant television screen as workers laid tiles below, multicolor LED lights above — is to be transported to the strangest dream world of them all, the vision of unlimited commercial merriment that was the world we lived in just a year ago.
The soil in the centre of the plain is shallow loam, whereas the rim is deeper and composed largely of shell fragments.
Mass parties and ideological movements survive largely as shells.
But it's largely an empty shell.
The doyen of scenario planning a widely used method for companies to think about the future, developed largely by the Shell oil company in the 1970s argues that the future is not as unknown as we think.
The last developers briefly proposed a biomass power station in part of the building's shell – largely, it seems, in order to generate some picturesque steam from the chimneys – but it was an idea more interesting than all the starchitect interventions proposed for the last 30 years.
This interpretation was revised upon molecular characterization of sampled snails by detection of B. choanomphala, as largely indistinguishable upon shell morphology with local B. stanleyi [ 2].
