By using residents, some public institutions are able to function with a skeleton staff of fully certified physicians, often using part-time attending physicians hired on contract.
There is currently a skeleton staff on site supervising routine maintenance work.
Nor can the projects be run with a skeleton staff.
At night there is a skeleton staff and everybody is locked up.
A skeleton staff of 12 people are now working on the project, which will take years to revive.
It will have a skeleton staff and meet probably no more than once a month.
With a skeleton staff they would undoubtedly be vulnerable to pre-emptive attack, in a way that our present bases are not.
That is a prototype colliery which is running on a skeleton staff at the moment for development purposes.