Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.
The Medicare fund could be bare by 1990 and draining reserves out of the other two.
So, for example, a bare patch of ground would be colonized by a succession of species annual weeds, then grasses, then shrubs, then trees until it reached its "climax" state.
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More to our point, it would crater the ETFs: Their complex network of custodians and subcustodians would be laid bare.
Tim Lamb of the Sport and Recreation Alliance said the two hours a week target should be the "bare minimum", adding that despite many outstanding initiatives school sport was "an issue still in need of a great deal of attention".
What our cloak accomplishes is that it reduces the mass of fluid that has to be displaced to a bare minimum .
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It is the bare bones of quantum mechanics that have proved to be consistent with what is presently known of the subatomic world.
That seems fitting enough, but we also get panel discussions in TV studios, video feeds, and a genuine British news anchor declaiming iambic pentameters as if from an autocue all a trifle forced, as if Fiennes were concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play.
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 not only devastated communities, it also laid bare the shortcomings of the armed forces, which proved to be ill-equipped and demoralised.
Rescuers digging with drills, shovels and their bare hands said many dead bodies were believed to still be under the wreckage of Rana Plaza, the eight-story building that collapsed Wednesday.
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Though others seemed to be enjoying this novel form of public grooming, seconds after I dipped my bare feet and felt the collective suction of the swarm, I yanked them back out.
At a bare minimum, the company could simply be firming up friendships and hedging its bets on the future of computing.
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What these exchanges laid bare was that the Curia is at the heart of the decision as to who will be the next pope.
Those of you who can't bare to go dock-free with the A5 and A7 will be pleased know the third-generation Zeppelin features a Lightning connector.
In Bosnia and Albania especially, the bare modicum of ethnic harmony that still exists and in Bosnia it is very bare can be sustained only by economic cushions provided from outside.
The new options that would be available through the merged companies, including the bare-bones plan, could significantly reduce churn, or the number of subscribers who ditch the service each year, said Tony Wible, an analyst at Citigroup.
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