To many, Thai Myanmar relations are too cozy.

Sami and Layla were taking their lunches at a cozy hotel.

In both cases, these cozy relationships were maintained for far too long.

His victory shattered a century and a half of cozy bipartisan misrule.

But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

As ever, change upsets the cozy status quo and the interests that benefit from it.

Public officials should hold private interests at arm s length and never cozy up to them.

This cozy relationship was supposedly dissolved when the traditional Sumo circle was modernized, becoming today s JSA.

That cozy culture ended soon after the thrusting, brash Americans, who worked even over breakfast, hit town.

The DPJ has vowed to shake up the cozy relations between Japan s bureaucrats, politicians, and big business.

By maintaining cozy relations with repressive regimes and protecting them from international sanctions, China risks being seen as their accomplice.

The Turks, they think, will fatalistically accept any snub. But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

No safe havens for tax evasion. No safe havens for money laundering and terrorism financing, and no safe havens for cozy financial regulation.

But this is best addressed in Copenhagen, in the presence of all world leaders, not in the cozy confines of the G 20.

Europe now gets 1 of its energy from wind less than before industrialization, when cozy windmills contributed about 2 (and ships sails provided another 1 ).

These shareholders are represented by institutional investors (pension funds, etc.) whose interests, agendas, and cozy relationships often align them more closely with firms CEOs and managers.

Pakistan s homegrown Islamist militias continue to operate openly, and the Pakistani army and intelligence remain loath to sever their cozy ties with extremist and terrorist elements.

Perhaps some European leaders really do believe that maintaining the Union s cozy prosperity justifies silencing ourselves on human rights and other issues that annoy the Kremlin.

In fact, Europe s much vaunted social model is more a dream than a reality, the dream of a cozy world in which a benevolent state looks after us.

They saved the banking systems, modernized telecommunications networks, rebuilt ailing industries, raised the quality of goods, and undermined the cozy vested interests that had robbed ordinary citizens for decades.

And the cozy candles that many participants will light, which seem so natural and environmentally friendly, are still fossil fuels and almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs.

And so does your bleep . These days, with a hair free back, well groomed shoulders and an extra optical inch on my bleep , well, let's just say life has gotten pretty darn cozy.

This new middle class is no longer constrained by the patronage systems of the village, but it also does not enjoy the cozy relationship that links the old middle class with the elite.

Instead of indirectly propping up Lukashenka s regime through such cozy deals, Europe s governments must begin to act in accordance with what Europe s parliament has long understood underwriting Lukashenka economically only prolongs his misrule.

To be sure, large swaths of Venezuelan society rightly felt excluded from the country s cozy elite consensus and insular governing arrangements, and resented it immensely but an aspiring middle class comprised roughly half the population.

Candles are cozy and seem oh so natural. Yet, when measured by the light they generate, candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights.

The biggest resentment among right wing voters in European countries is reserved for political elites, who, in the opinion of many, have been governing for too long in cozy coalitions, which appear to exist chiefly to protect vested interests.

And we will see increasingly that even we in the West will reach out, have to reach out, beyond the cozy circle of the Atlantic powers to make alliances with others if we want to get things done in the world.

The cozy relationships between government officials and the corporate world and not just in the case of TEPCO was reflected in the large number of retired bureaucrats who took jobs on the boards of companies that they had supposedly regulated.

I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against.