Sentence examples for us shell from inspiring English sources
Investors lost millions in hundreds of Chinese companies that listed by the back door, through the perfectly legal practice of buying traded US shell companies, thus avoiding the initial scrutiny that accompanies an IPO.
While there are ways to use US shell companies fraudulently, most of us would have a hard time doing it without paying big bucks for the assistance of high-priced attorneys.
Is the Civil List really there to save us shelling out for psychiatrists for our prime ministers?
Predicting how events will turn out in only a few months can leave us shell-shocked.
"They silenced us by shelling us," said Bin Ahmed, wearing a blue T-shirt and sports shoes.
"The tanks and artillery are important in our fight because they enable us to shell the regime from a distance".
And maybe some of us have shell shock, too -- albeit cases so widely distributed and electronically filtered and mediated that they hover beneath perception, a muffled hum rather than a sharp ringing in the ears.
Secrets of how they get us to shell out billions of dollars annually for products that really don't serve our best interests.
The university was fantastic, in that they gave us the shell, and made a major financial contribution with lots of 'in-kind' support as well.
"The regime is killing us with shelling," said a top aide to the council's president, declining to use his name because he still returns to government-controlled areas.
