Sentences with phrase «acts as a shell»

These gluten - free crepes act as a shell for any filling you like.

These third - parties act as shells and generally hold little or no financial resources, with only a postal address to substantiate their business activities.

The corporation acts as a shell for the investors» accounts, shielding them from the higher tax burden that would be incurred in their home country.

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During his tenure as Chief of OMI, Mr. Martinez oversaw efforts to remove dormant shell companies from the market, support an enforcement sweep of violations of Regulation M Rule 105, and identify broker - dealers not in compliance with their Bank Secrecy Act obligations.

In Europe this is symbolized by the churches «having become empty shells, visited only as objects of architectual interest, and in the United States by the growing chasm between what churchgoers profess and how they act.

Sea shells on mountain tops do act as evidence of a great upheaval, but the orderly arrangement of shells by type and age is not indicative of a violent flood.

Though the mollusks and shellfish are prepared on a grill, the cooking method actually is a steaming process, since the flames and hot coals cause them to steam in their own juices, with their shells acting as miniature pans.

She didn't care if he got shelled for six runs, so longas he didn't act as if he couldn't take the bad with the good.

The Topeak Baby Seat is designed with a cocoon - like structure which acts as a protective shell for a safe and secure ride.

This is a shell designed car seat which acts as a protective barrier around your child to help keep them cushioned and safe.

The foam also acts as a barrier between your child and the rigid seat shell and any other intruding objects such as the vehicle door or window.

Furthermore, residents of Dawaki suburb in the FCT were saved the orgy of armed robbers attack last week when the police acting on a tip - off, swooped on a gang of robbers, arrested them and recovered 3 double barrel guns, 1 pump action gun, 50 live cartridges and 41 pieces of empty shell cartridges, as they had mobilized and were about to proceed to unleash terror on innocent residents of the community.

I have no hard evidence of that fact such as a written contract, but it seems that the circumstantial evidence would be enough to lead any reasonable person to conclude that you have the Rockland GOP acting as the CIA with certain individuals in the role of a shell company handler.

Named P2, this iteration of the X-Prize concept rover has vertical solar panels to absorb energy even at sunrise and sunset and sports a white band around its shell that will act as a radiator during the intense heat of lunar midday.

Forams form their shells in concert with ocean temperatures and chemistry, acting as miniscule time capsules, each containing a precise record of the temperature and ocean chemistry during its lifetime.

This chemical composition acts as a «fingerprint» of the water that the shells were formed in.

The chemistry in the growth rings in the shells of the clam — which occur much like the annual growth rings in the centre of trees — can act as a proxy for the chemical make - up of the oceans, enabling researchers to reconstruct a history of how the oceans have changed over the past 1000 years with unprecedented dating precision.

On the other hand, thicker shells can act as buffers, preventing nanorods from bunching closely together and shielding them from their environment.

«As the authors point out, parasitoid venoms act in a much subtler, more fine - tuned manner than the better known predatory or defensive venoms of things like snakes, spiders or cone shells.»

Some of the electronic charge on the chloride ion (Cl --RRB- ends up on the water molecules in the first solvation shells around the chloride and sodium ions, with the waters around sodium being the most negative — the waters effectively act as an electronic sink.

They also suggest that the image of discarded pistachio shells may have also acted as visual cue to stop eating.

The bride and her mom collected everything, from the mussel shells that acted as a table runner to the brass candlesticks and navy taper candles.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Turtles Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Turtles which are reptiles of the order Chelonii or Testudines and are characterised by a special bony shell which is developed from their ribs and acts as a shield against predators.

Boric acid dries up the moisture in fleas and other insects and acts as an abrasive to rub off the insects» protective shell.

Elsewhere, a squadron of the Italian Arditi («The Daring Ones») assaults a mountainside base, while the Australian special forces act as runners through the artillery shelled coast of Gallipoli.

As Michael Auping, chief curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth writes: «the paintings represent a delicate balancing act in which presence and absence play a subtle shell game».

Within a brilliant architectural shell by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the real - estate magnate's mega-sized collection acts as a Disneyland for contemporary art fans.

While «painting as object» has often been a formalist issue, the works in this exhibition gather their identity through the subversion of formalism — scrambling and reassembling themselves in an aesthetic shell game where the act of painting is always an investigation of a painting's ability to push into objecthood.

Nine non-human characters such as Kettle, Pickax, Central - Control - System, Mountain, Turbo - Sazae (turban shell), Helmet, Water, Decorative - Paper - Ball, and Crystal act as gods narrating the storyline in which animals are struggling for a dream project.

Into the shell I was able to fit the Lidar - lite, the microcontroller, and a little strip of Neopixel RGB LEDs that act as a warning display, with room for a uniform 6 - millimeter layer of padding.

If the U.S. joins in, cap - and - trade could explode to a $ 3 trillion market... Yet Schapiro describes it as an «elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments, but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.»

Shipping containers can be stacked empty up to 16 containers high because the corner castings and corner posts are so strong; everything else is much lighter, and the corrugated sides act as a monocoque shell to hold up the top.

There are many natural causes for fluctuations in CO2 levels: volcanoes produce both ash (which acts as a temporary coolant) and CO2; marine organisms fix CO2 in their shells which fall to the ocean floor and in the right setting get turned into limestone or other carbonate rocks, ditto coral reefs.

Can we design building materials that, like shells, absorb CO2 from their surroundings and when saturated, simply continue to act as building materials, holding on to the carbon long term?

The chemical makeup of the shells of these organisms acts like a time capsule of the environmental conditions they lived in, as changes in the isotopes in their shells paints a picture of the changing pH levels of the ocean.

Trip delay, trip cancellation, loss of checked - in baggage, delay of checked - in baggage, medical emergency treatment, passport loss etc. are some of the possible situations that can act as hurdles in your travel plan and will leave you with no choice but to shell out from your pocket.

The spiritual and intellectual godfather of the patent trolls is Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive who launched Intellectual Ventures, a giant patent - holding company that has spawned at least 1,300 shell companies that act as parasitic vectors for the corporate mothership.

The Gear VR is more or less a shell for the Note 4, which acts as the display and the brains of the assembly.

A large tortoise shell is mounted above a bamboo - framed mirror, and a large clamshell acts as a decorative piece on the side table.