(1) Once the profitable enterprises have been sold the unprofitable rump will be left

(2) Having been reduced to a rump of six seats in 1999, the Nationals have made a desperate bid for survival by refusing to sign a coalition agreement with the Liberals.

(3) Meanwhile he ruled over a French rump state based in the spa town of Vichy.

(4) He slapped the horse on the rump

(5) The new Liberal Unionist group he attached himself to never made it up with the rump of the Liberal Party, and eventually allied with the Conservatives.

(6) The party moved from a landslide majority with 400 seats in 1906 to a rump of 40 MPs just eighteen years later.

(7) Other mains - such as grilled marinated poussin with couscous, specialty bangers and mash, rump of lamb on a sweet-potato stack - are straightforward enough that I am confident they would be as good.

(8) The misnamed Moderates, the right wing union faction that has dominated civil service unions for decades, are reduced to a rump with only four seats.

(9) A rump force of 200 is holed up in a town near the Iranian border.

(10) All the men speak repeatedly of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia but only the Serbs continue to call their rump state by that name.

(11) This rump business is involved in a High Court case and is valued by stockbrokers at only 10 cent per share.

(12) Gerrard slapped the horse on the rump , sending Pride into a quick trot.

(13) The strong hand around his thick neck loosened and his rump landed on the ground.

(14) He vacillates between serving a rump nationalist constituency and seeking closer ties with the international community.

(15) The harrier is distinguished by its prominent white rump

(16) I had the rump of veal with garlic and almond crumb, truffle mash, crispy sweetbread and a Madeira sauce.

(17) We are reliably informed that the Senate may take up the bill in its rump session, scheduled to start Tuesday.

(18) The upshot will be a two-class university system, with elite institutions for those who can afford to pay, and poorly-funded rump universities for the rest.

(19) The rump was that part of the factory not modernised by new investment.

(20) He removed his hand from Shirley's rump