Remove the chicken with a slotted spoon and let cool, then remove the bones and shred the flesh.

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My strategy worked for more than two decades until you found the broken down, shadowy pile of virtual flesh and bones that is me on Facebook.

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Like thousands of robots deployed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, PackBot fulfilled a mission that flesh-and-bones soldiers, risking life and limb, used to do.

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He said his time in Sark had been spent "putting the flesh on the bones" of the Crowe Report and reviewing the response to an island-wide questionnaire.

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And it is certainly true that Mr Portillo has yet to put real flesh on the bones of his policies.

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