It was not very comfortable.

Not surprisingly, that prospect offers scant comfort to China.

But it is an uneasy calm that probably will not last.

And ambiguity, to me, is very uncomfortable in my life, and I have it. Moral ambiguity.

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value.

Sit comfortably.

By contrast, today s road transportation system is inconvenient, unsustainable, and dangerous.

The hotel at which we stayed was very comfortable.

Patient capital is uncomfortable for people searching for simple solutions, easy categories, because we don't see profit as a blunt instrument.

While the snow may have been unexpected, it does herald the start of an uncomfortable season in Japan winter.

But there do seem to be an uncomfortable number of similarities between the political economy of cyberspace regulation and of financial regulation.

Edward II had allowed the Tower of London to fall into a state of disrepair, and by the reign of Edward III the castle was an uncomfortable place.

In a very short period of time, completely changed the atmosphere and character with loud voices and large bodies and such, and we had to get up and leave it was just that uncomfortable.

Raising this long list of shortcomings puts Western critics in an uncomfortable position with their pro European Turkish interlocutors.

Each of those Governments cooperated with the Mission, accepting the sometimes uncomfortable degree of scrutiny that comes with international verification.

But, for a country that has had little faith in deterrence when it comes to existential nuclear threats, relying on it now would mark a new, uncomfortable bet.

The outcome of that election is increasingly uncertain, and Merkel is now in a very uncomfortable position, which could grow into a real predicament.

Japan would therefore be placed in an uncomfortable position if it transpired that the Secretary General was assuming that such support from the regular budget was a given.

This bench, although it was uncomfortable for my mom she didn't like sitting on it, so she went and bought these cushions for me from a local jumble sale reusing, a job that was pretty good.

The rise of extreme nationalists in places like Greece and Finland has reinforced the belief that talking about immigration, except to argue against it, is politically fraught.

Several studies show that between 50 and 73 of women who have used this type of condoms during intercourse find them as or more comfortable than male condoms.

I finally got around to calculus as a 32 year old tenured professor at Harvard, where I sat uncomfortably in classes with undergraduate students, little more than half my age.

Sure, I had wanted to get outside of my comfort zone, but what I'd sort of failed to notice was that getting out of your comfort zone is, by definition, extremely uncomfortable.

Flags may be a more inspiring symbol of common destiny, but most of us do not carry them around, and many people never display them, except perhaps at major sports events their origin, rooted in battle standards, can seem uncomfortably aggressive.

Protesters vividly express widespread frustration with deepening inequality, and condemnation of privileges of a global financial elite comes uncomfortably close to implicating government.

Parameters become variables balance sheet repairs proceed in a slow and uneven fashion and policymakers experience an uncomfortable shift in the balance of benefits, costs, and risks.

But not too uncomfortable, because there's something unthreatening about seeing a political perspective, versus being told or forced to listen to one.

So all you do is it's a very kind of provocative statement this old bicycle tube and this old plastic unclear This filling cap will go very snugly into an old bicycle tube.

And we find that when we do that, we can, in fact, have a few places that are really hyper dense within a wider fabric of places that are perhaps a little more comfortable and achieve the same results.

One of the most interesting and most important concepts is the idea of scale. We change scale very often we change resolution of screens, and we're not really fazed by it, we do it very comfortably.

Although the conflict between Iran and its Sunni rivals and the Syrian civil war forced it to loosen ties with Iran and Syria and move into the Sunni fold, in many respects this has been a comfortable shift.

And I have a tip for you. If you have to work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong.

And most importantly, what we do is we use a rigorous, and often uncomfortable, process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system to respond normally to the activities and sensory experiences that are part of everyday life.

In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.

The reality is more complex.

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value. It was inconvenient because gold was awkward for everyday transactions, and silver had too little value for major transfers.

It is difficult to judge who is right, and there are important experts on both sides of the debate. But there do seem to be an uncomfortable number of similarities between the political economy of cyberspace regulation and of financial regulation.

As millions go online to buy train tickets home for Chinese New Year, which falls on Jan 30 this year, users are shocked again at how inconvenient and inefficient the site is.

There is also the convenience factor dollars are widely used in a variety of other transactions.

It is not known which approach is more effective.

But Blair, beset by controversy over the unpopular and possibly illegal war in Iraq, thought he could avoid trouble at Westminster by postponing ratification until 2006 (that is, a comfortably long time in the future), and proposing that it be carried out by popular referendum.

But this trip will be trickier.

Yet the reality is more prosaic for both.

The representatives of about a dozen NGOs were present.

Every year the family seems to get bigger, and noisier, and with that Eid becomes an unpleasant experience.