However, Total, the French national champion, could see a takeover of Shell as a fitting encore to its well-executed acquisition of Elf.
His war was brought to an end when he was wounded by shrapnel from a German shell as he returned from the front line.
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On the first night of the February summit, Ultra Light Startups will host one of its Future Energy events sponsored by a variety of entities, including Shell as the Platinum Sponsor.
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These include some of the world's leading companies, such as BMW, Lloyds, Nestle, Philips and Shell, as well as US government departments and the UK's Parliament.
Malaga, which was making its debut in the competition, was left shell shocked as it suffered a heartbreaking exit.
Others, such as Shell and ConocoPhillips, are accused of unwittingly handling the contraband.
They point to BP and Royal Dutch Shell in particular as having bred a culture of denial about the problem.
On 22 September a light shell, known as a Whizz Bang, exploded above his head killing three members of his team.
Then there were years of delays as Shell made improvements to the Kulluk rig to meet draconian EPA regulations on diesel emissions.
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But as Shell has shown in spades, the operational risks are enormous.
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Australia had 45 minutes to survive before the close, but were left shell-shocked as Edwards and Powell wreaked havoc with the new ball.
The battery is located within a carbon-fibre monocoque which forms an integral part of the body shell and acts as the gullwing model's "spine".
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As Shell is still in the early stages of developing some of these U.S. assets, it will take time and money to convert them into meaningful cashflow.
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Or alternatively, Apple could have set up a new shell company, as they did when buying the iPad name off Proview, not that that worked out entirely wonderfully.
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If your part-time delivery man hits a pedestrian, then a corporate shell, such as a limited liability company, can provide an extra layer of protection for your personal assets.
During the good years of booming equity markets and low inflation, such schemes did so well that some companies, such as Shell and Philips, made a profit with their workers' pension arrangements.
His Conoil Producing, which was founded as Shell Company of Nigeria in 1927 and privatized in 2000, is one of Nigeria's largest independent oil companies, with a production capacity of 100, 000 barrels per day.
Two dot balls followed before Bilal Shafayat was caught at short fine-leg, Kevin O'Brien walked in front of a straight one and Jake Ball, on his one-day debut, looked shell-shocked as Smith trimmed his off bail.
The first thing you'll notice, once you get past the space-age design, is the fact that the camera really does feel like a rebranded Sony NEX device slipped into a new shell, and as such, it takes those Sony e-mount lenses.
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Second, as Shell President John Hofmeister pointed out in his testimony, prices are shooting skyward in part because of rising demand in China and India, the rising cost of materials and labor, and international events, such as supply disruptions in the Niger Delta.
The banks that will be allowed to bid are those that are small, such as Virgin Money or the shell company NBNK, or foreign, such as National Australia Bank.
The commercial players are companies like Shell and Marathon, as well as users like Southwest Airlines.
This can be awkward inside complicated structures such as the shell of a car.
And as the economy changed, a lot of people wrote off Cleveland as a shell of its former self.
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Mr van de Veer will remain on Shell's board as a non-executive director.
The turtle's empty carapace, or shell, is used as decorative pieces in their homes, or as containers for holding water and food.
Continuing the theme of found food, a soft-shell crab is presented as an edible beach treasure, surrounded by amaranth grains for sand and brown-butter sauce for seawater.
This fact is extremely obvious when you compare the materials used in all the Big Agnes models as the shell of the Horsethief was decidedly more breathable than its counterparts.
Glossy products are legendary for attracting fingerprint smears, and this device's shell made it look as if we suffered from a sweating condition even after we'd dried our hands to the bone.
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He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.
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