Sentences with phrase «than a shell of»

When the passion for worship and service is gone, the church loses its soul and is no more than a shell of former life.

Before Torres, Liverpool were nothing more than a shell of the team they are today.

Tbh it'll be hard pressed to have less content than shell of thieves.

The Gram's full - metal body is made of nano carbon magnesium that LG says is tougher than the shell of conventional laptops.

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Given a choice between shortage and rationing that comes with it, and shelling out less than the cost of a cup of Starbucks every week, most people are unlikely to object.

It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling of an ally's capital, which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.»

For example, you could lease a photocopier for several hundred dollars a month rather than financing the entire $ 3,000 purchase price, or you could lease your automobile or van instead of shelling out $ 25,000 or more for the full purchase price of the car.

Last summer Electronic Arts shelled out upwards of $ 1.3 billion for PopCap Games, which had its game apps downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide, thanks to mobile hits like Plants vs. Zombies.

After living in New York City for the past three years, I've figured out how to navigate the city on the cheap, but I've also shelled out more than I'm proud of on omelettes and mimosas.

GM also purchased the assets of the defunct Sidecar, and last week shelled out more than $ 1 billion for self - driving tech startup Cruise Automation.

Even though there would be more phones coming, many customers simply preferred to shell out the cash and put forth more than the average effort to get one of the first ones.

I shelled out more than $ 40,000 of my hard earned cash developing an idea that I believed -LSB-...]

Ray Ferrara, the former chairman of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards who's chairman and CEO of dually registered ProVise Management Group in Clearwater, Florida, noted on a panel discussion at the event that he expects his firm to shell out «less than $ 10,000 in our hard costs» to comply with the fiduciary rule, but didn't anticipate «any significant ongoing [compliance] costs.»

Microsoft plans to spend $ 5 billion on the internet of things, and it's more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements.

That led to a kind of crowdsourced research project on Reddit, but other than names of various shells connected to the same inventors, like Kolomoki Mounds LLC, not much was discovered.

As of the moment, the company's popularity rests largely on hype fueled by celebrities such as Katy Perry and Ashton Kutcher shelling out the money for tickets on its first flight, rather than on actual achievement.

VICTORIA — More than 500,000 B.C. families will see one of the largest ever medical services premium (MSP) tax hikes on January 1, thanks to Christy Clark's MSP shell game, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

Greater than anticipated revenue from the sale of First Solar's Moapa project in Nevada didn't hurt any, and it is less clear when exactly when First Solar is going to be shelling out the roughly one billion dollars that it will take to retool to its large format Series 6.

Dell lost billions of dollars over the next few years on the puts — they had to shell out over $ 1.2 billion in one year alone to buy back millions of shares of stock that had lost half their value in the previous year — this was more than they made selling computers that year.

Turtles have hard shells too, so a statue (which would of course be of a hard material) makes more sense than using a manatee with its soft flesh.

At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — a cicada shell, one...

I do not know who these rather shell - shocked former practitioners of identity politics might be or what makes them into people who could be receptive to the lessons embedded in Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of religion and who could apply them to religions other than Judaism.

For the Jeffersonians and evangelicals a constitution too quickly becomes cold and external, a shell for the pursuit of self - interest rather than a space for the exercise of free initiative in the public interest.

A prince of the Church with the courage to abandon the shell of the institution and fight on principle, I thought, would have done better than Pius XII.

We ought to recognize that a «shell game» is being played on us by the defenders of the «neutral» state, but the stakes are much higher than in any ordinary game of three - card Monte.

CNN: On holiday of sacrifice, many Syrians can not celebrate Artillery shelling, water outages and food shortages, rather than presents and sweets, greeted many Syrians on the most important Muslim holiday of the year.

In The Humanity of God, Barth stated — with a curious reference to his former characterization of God as the «wholly other» — that his eyes had been opened «to the fact that God might actually be wholly other than the God confined to the musty shell of the Christian religious self - consciousness.»

If, for any reason, the distance between the two iodine - atom nuclei should be less than that distance, there will be an unbalanced force (mainly arising from interactions of the filled shells) which will tend to increase the distance between the atomic centers.

We also provided links to recipes using nuts other than almonds, piping guides, a troubleshooting guide, and links to making eggless vegan macaron shells using aquafaba (aka, the liquid from a can of chickpeas)!

Some varieties of pumpkins have a thicker shell or rind on them than others so this may be easy to do and it might be tough.

If you want to remove the shells from unshelled sunflower seeds, there are easier ways to remove the shell than by hand, which requires a lot of diligence and time.

Organic dry roasted peanuts out of the shell are smaller than the traditional Virginia peanuts, but pack a much sweeter taste.

Rather than saying a «large» egg, I always refer to eggs by weight, as measured out of the shell, to accommodate readers who are using nonstandard eggs (maybe from backyard chickens).

Nothing is worse than ripping off big chunks of white with the shell.

Other than shrimp and prawns, which lots of people do grill, there are many critters wearing shells that are usually consigned to the kitchen oven.

To break out of the hard shell of the kernel, the shoot begins to digest some of the starch inside the seed — a development that gives sprouted grains nutritional benefits such as lower starch levels and higher proportions of vitamins and minerals than conventional grains.

Buy shelled almonds — which aren't dirt cheap, by any means, but usually run cheaper than almond meal — dump»em in with the S - blade in place, and run till you've got something the texture of corn meal.

Nothing feels more decadent than giant shells of pasta filled with creamy mozzarella, Parmesan, and ricotta.

I used Better than eggs instead of eggs in a shell and mixed it up in my kitchen aid mixer.

Last year, Madre de Dios community enterprises exported more than 4,000 metric tons of shelled Brazil nuts, representing a value of nearly US$ 31 million.

Fry three tortillas per person in a couple of inches of oil until they are slightly harder than taco shells.

If we had more than four minutes to enjoy our lead, Hull would have had to come out of their shells more and we could have used our pace and the ability of players like Welbeck and Alexis to exploit the extra space.

Post your reasons on why Wenger is unarguably better than Klopp and Simeone and why Klopp and Simeone where cappable of building a ultra high perfomance team with a small budget achieving major trophies in the process and why Wenger in the last decade couldn't and even with a good amount of money still can't win anything important or even make arsenal look like a strong side (FA cup and community shell are not major trophies)

Now more than halfway through the Serie A season, Gagliardini looks like a shell of his former self.

Rather than going into their shell after scoring, Arsenal are looking to take advantage of the other team being vulnerable by pushing to increase the lead and make the game more comfortable.

When Caroline Fink turned and fired for the insurance goal, that evened the match at six shots a piece, and you can't fault Marquette for going into a little bit of a defensive shell and allowing more shots than they took in the final 42 minutes.

«If Liverpool score first at Old Trafford, they could run out comfortable winners because you can see them picking United apart if they are forced to come out of their shell and chase the game, but I also feel United could be better than they are in the final third.»

Although the tactic's effectiveness in the modern game is making it more of a necessity than an option, there's an obvious risk a team takes when pressing as opposed to dropping into a defensive shell.

Rather than constructing the core of the side and then experimenting around it, they've constructed the shell, but are struggling to fill it.

It is almost impossible to put in a tackle when the ball is passed quickly around the field with minimal touches.In - fact Barca would want nothing more than Stoke's defense to come out of its shell, so to speak, just so that they can find space behind them.