The man Tengo saw before him was nothing but an empty shell.
Whether a Landesbank could hive off its domestic activities into a private venture and leave the public part an empty shell is questionable.
Between a convoluted plot, boring missions, and unfulfilled promises, the first game played like an empty shell of what the audience was hoping for.
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Yukos officials are defiant, saying that, if the idea is to strip out the subsidiaries and leave an empty shell, their complex ownership structure will make it a tough legal battle.
But the problem is that as soon as fun becomes part of a corporate strategy it ceases to be fun and becomes its opposite at best an empty shell and at worst a tiresome imposition.
Sorry, bondholders, ABN Amro said, but your securities were issued by an empty corporate shell.
The IRS says it is little more than an avenue for owners of an empty corporate shell to avoid paying taxes.
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Worse, the bug disabled essential instructions that tell the PC how to start-up, effectively reducing machines to an unusable empty shell.
Gadwood, like 1, 200 researchers, was stranded like a shell on an empty beach.
"One minute Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, " it said.
Eduardo drove at the heart of the England defence and played a cute pass into the area for Olic, the Hamburg striker coolly dribbling round a shell-shocked Carson and rolling into an empty net.
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