Remnants in example sentence

Lepper's supporters are not the poor and excluded, but are remnants of the lower Communist nomenclatura (the apparatchiks too stupid to steal as Communism collapsed) and those who made money during the grey period of 1989-1991, when state controls were practically nonexistent and when all that you needed to make money was a truck and enough petrol to drive to Berlin.

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Because it's so cold, the entire contents of that hut is still as they left it, with the remnants of the last meal they cooked still there.

There are always remnants of the perished ones that are more durable than their fragile bodies and our selective and fading memory of them.

In fact, if we could go back to our tranquil skies above Chile, and we allow time to move forward to see how the sky might change over the next year, the pulsations that you see are supernovae, the final remnants of a dying star exploding, brightening and then fading from view, each one of these supernovae five billion times the brightness of our sun, so we can see them to great distances but only for a short amount of time.

And buried deep underground, the remnants of cities built on floodplains have been preserved in time as a kind of technofossil.

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