There is regular allusion to a table which their Uncle Julian admits "is overlarge now for the pitiful remnant of our family".
Keeping the royal in the Royal Easter show happens a couple of times a decade and gives a lot of pleasure to the remnant grazier class who bring their sheep and cattle to town every Easter in the hope of ribbons.
They could team up with the remnant Liberal Democrats, Northern Ireland's DUP and a couple of Ukippers and still not reach the magic number.
When he finally slips away, a remnant of Italy's long-forgotten monarchy will be lost for ever.
Ironically, Hegarty and I get off to a shaky start, owing to my turning up to interview him with my own croaking voice, a remnant from a virus.
Where once it could claim to be a central part of rural life – hymned by writers as varied as RS Surtees, Anthony Trollope and Siegfried Sassoon – hunting now seems an add-on, a quaint remnant.
This indicates the degree to which the remnant led by al-Zawahiri have become, at best, only one player among many.
Together with the Citizens United decision of 2010, Mr Breyer charged, McCutcheon "eviscerates our Nation's campaign-finance laws, leaving a remnant incapable of dealing with the grave problems of democratic legitimacy that those laws were intended to resolve".
