| The smallness of the hotel makes it difficult to run as a commercial venture even though it has a skeleton staff. |
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| The strike hit most public services, forcing hospitals to stay open with skeleton staff and closing down schools. |
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| Council offices reduced to skeleton staff manning because most of the people are sleeping off the previous night's counting. |
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| Hospital services were disrupted and a skeleton staff left to operate the casualty and emergency departments. |
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| Many schools in major centres were either closed, virtually deserted or operating on skeleton staff. |
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| It is in the municipalities and corporations the health service finds it difficult to operate with skeleton staff. |
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| Non-essential High Commission workers are leaving, with just a skeleton staff of 40 left to man Britain's biggest overseas mission. |
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| There are some paid positions, but at levels below what any mainstream publication would consider a skeleton staff. |
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| The service never shuts down, and even on Christmas Day a skeleton staff is on duty. |
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| The intention of the Department to maintain a skeleton staff of graders at beef factories is not a solution. |
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| The US company seems to have a skeleton staff at the moment. |
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| A skeleton staff comprising 9 MINURCAT and 11 United Nations country team personnel remained in N'Djamena. |
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| Essential service employees may strike provided a skeleton staff is left in place. |
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| I believe these subsidised organisations should work with a skeleton staff and outsource as much work as possible to local capacity builders. |
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| At BG and bde level, there are insufficient staff and CIS to man an alternate HQ with anything more than a skeleton staff. |
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| With extended hours and coverage for coffee breaks and lunch hours, the skeleton staff size is around ten. |
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| We hope to get another basic funding, to maintain a skeleton staff and resources, sanctioned from the Government shortly. |
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| A skeleton staff held the fort during the industrial action, which followed two months of inconclusive pay talks and a failure last week to negotiate a deal. |
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| Some 60 jobs are reported to be axed although a skeleton staff will be retained to supply European-based content for The Standard's US publication and Web site. |
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| Operations are still being run by a skeleton staff of six, but many other employees have already found new jobs with the support of Appleby Heritage Centre. |
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| But since Deja had bumped along with a skeleton staff for several months, and functioned fine, we wondered if this would really have hurt Google financially. |
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| Now Newmarket's skeleton staff is struggling to cope with the film's expanding release pattern. |
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| When we were working there, they had a skeleton staff of two, which is not normal. |
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| A skeleton staff answered the phones, following a hypnotically consistent script. |
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| Although a skeleton staff will remain in London, the magazine will cease publication. |
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| Operating with just a skeleton staff, even some of its most prestigious exhibits were off limits. |
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| We will likely maintain a small skeleton staff at the embassy for the duration. |
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| In addition, salaries for basic skeleton staff, with a maximum number of three employees, are included as eligible. |
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| Impact on the procurement process: Many key vendors reduce to a skeleton staff during the summer holiday period. |
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| Both schools have remained open, operating with skeleton staff. |
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| Jobcentres and benefit offices in York were operating with a skeleton staff today as workers began 48-hour strike action in an increasingly bitter pay dispute. |
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| Samwu said that it had a local agreement in place for a skeleton staff to maintain essential services, but this had not been ratified at a national level. |
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| Five landfill sites will be open, but with skeleton staff only. |
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| Following the first round of evacuation on 2 February, a small skeleton staff of MINURCAT, comprising about 33 personnel, remained and relocated to a hotel, where French forces provided protection. |
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| Programs are written so that roughing operations are completed during the day shift and the long finishing operations overnight and at weekends, when the factory operates on a skeleton staff. |
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| But you must keep skeleton staff on duty at all car parks while the event is still open. |
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| If it proves impossible to redeploy all the desired human resources by the scheduled dates, some actions, including the opening of delegations, may be implemented using a skeleton staff. |
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| We have a board, which is made up of 14 members, and a skeleton staff of five people. The five genomics centres that we mentioned earlier are responsible for operations at Genome Canada. |
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| All of those organizations run on a shoestring, with skeleton staff. |
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