Despite recent trends pointing to the rate of the price growth moderating, today's figures offer cold comfort to thousands of homeseekers. |
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I got an armchair and a desk and an electric fire, for the hibachi is cold comfort in the winter. |
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And after going down 1-0 in the most crucial series outside the World Cup, that was pretty cold comfort for Macqueen's men. |
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The strong words will come as cold comfort to the Prison Officers' Association and its 3,200 members. |
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These statistics are nonetheless cold comfort to friends and neighbors who have lost their jobs to overseas labor markets. |
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Unfortunately, it is very cold comfort for those of us who utilize airlines in this country. |
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As a result, incontestability clauses often provide cold comfort to most people. |
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Putting a wrongdoer out of the industry is cold comfort to the injured investor. |
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That is cold comfort to the people who are being thrown out of work across this country in forestry and manufacturing. |
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In the face of low pay and staff shortages, awards may seem cold comfort. |
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But that's cold comfort to the ratepayer if the project fails to meet its targets. |
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Whatever the case, it's cold comfort for those looking for some level of financial responsibility from their government. |
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It is cold comfort that the European Union is financing compensation for fishermen and shipowners. |
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But it offers cold comfort to say that we have been fighting early and hard for a just cause. |
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It is cold comfort that most of the developed world faces the same, or even worse grim prospects. |
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But that will be cold comfort to the millions of children who have been hit hard by these arbitrary policies, shamelessly justified in the name of school safety. |
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There was cold comfort for those left behind, forecasters predicting a distinctly wet festive period and motoring organisations warning of jams on the roads. |
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But that was cold comfort for the former Vermont governor, whose once promising campaign unravelled further when the head of a major union withdrew his support. |
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Problems such as the lack of car-parking were expected and are being addressed, though this is cold comfort to those forced to park off-site until next January. |
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Yet the fact that innovation is a wonderful, exciting thing is cold comfort to the man who feels he has become obsolete. |
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Yet this theoretical resolution is cold comfort to same-sex couples living in the many states that maintain marriage bans. |
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And if they lose this battle while aiming to win the larger war, it will be cold comfort on the morning of Nov. 7th. |
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It may be cold comfort for Irish policyholders who will lose up to 15 per cent of the value of their investments if they cash them in, but British policyholders are worse off. |
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That's a harsh truth, and cold comfort to be sure, but there it is. |
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So that gives us very cold comfort in a conference on disarmament. |
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Harlequin ducks leave behind the cold comfort of their winter homes off the East and West coasts and head inland to breed along rushing, tumbling mountain streams. |
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Satellite monitoring is cold comfort for the animals. |
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But statistics are cold comfort when the latest explosion has leveled a nearby building. |
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Treaties prohibiting torture are cold comfort to prisoners abused by their captors, particularly if the international human rights machinery enables those responsible to hide behind friends in high places. |
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This is cold comfort to those who can't even collect in the first place. |
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But income statistics alone make it clear that dependency on the state has offered cold comfort to the unemployed poor of the United States over this period. |
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Mr. Speaker, if there is not a green job for three, four or five years down the road, that is cold comfort for someone who is out of a job today and is trying to pay his family's bills. |
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These statements are rarely challenged today, although it is true that they are cold comfort to those who, in this shift towards specialisation driven by trade liberalisation, lose out in the short term. |
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With their dream of a visitors center now seemingly impossible, Sharpe and others said the buffer zones, open space zoning and conservation easements represent cold comfort. |
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At least I should not die alone. Human eyes would watch me end. It was cold comfort I presume, but yet I derived some slight peace of mind from the contemplation of it. |
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Cold comfort for the grieving Parks, who is now trying to solve the riddle of his granddaughter's death. |
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