Inflation there is already too high for comfort.

The 1950s June Cleever in the original comfort show, Leave it to Beaver.

Within Lebanon itself, Hezbollah is still strong, but its comfort level has declined.

This stance conveniently avoided rows with oil dictators.

It is right and refreshing that Obama has made clear that America s aspiration is to lead, not dominate.

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

The comfortable role of criticizing the government fell into the hands of leftist populists, for a change.

The comforting thing about the kind of data that Facebook primarily deals with is that it s public.

The conventional narrative comforting to the big banks and their friends in the Obama administration is that the Treasury has done everything within its power to reform the system.

We need to think about how to uncompress this curriculum if we can, trying to bring boys back into a space that is comfortable for them.

Nearly three years ago, I decided to leave my comfortable job as a World Bank senior economist in Washington and come back to my country of birth, Ethiopia, after nearly 30 years abroad.

In spite of their desire not to raise them, European leaders face the uncomfortable prospect of having to answer them and without much delay.

The EU cannot let Cyprus stew in its own juice, not least because as a member state the island is proving an uncomfortable bedfellow.

With no significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, it was convenient to take for granted that the financial plumbing worked in the background.

Location and size Penthouse apartments have not only the advantages of a regular apartment such as security and convenient location but also all those of a house such as size and design.

Number one If the universe lasts for 10 to the 10 to the 120 years, why are we born in the first 14 billion years of it, in the warm, comfortable afterglow of the Big Bang?

Look, listen, probe, ask some hard questions, get out of that very comfortable mode of knowing, walk into curiosity mode, ask more questions, have a little dignity, treat the person you're talking to with rapport.

I so miss family and friends, and music and all that, and the exchanging of a few thoughtful gifts, but I must admit it is a bit of a relief not to have all the advertising etc. in my face.

At the extreme end of the spectrum are terrorists, but the worldview goes deeper and wider than it is comfortable for us to admit. So, by and large, we don t admit it.

A bird that survives, despite inconvenient plumage that slows it down or makes it visible to predators, must be fit, and will likely sire a healthy progeny.

Within each region, factors such as convenient and accessible air transportation, good communication capacity, low security risk, political stability and acceptable infrastructure and amenities should be considered in locating regional and subregional centres.

It is often forgotten that US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld emerged from a comfortable retirement to reorganize the American military into a smaller, more agile force, using some of these same insights.

They each smoked two packs a day, each, nonfiltered, and by the time I was six, I could order a Southern Comfort Manhattan, dry with a twist, rocks on the side, the ice on the side so you could fit more liquor in the drink.

In recent days, Putin decided to reaffirm the Russian Syrian geopolitical marriage of convenience by following through on a sale of deadly arms to Bashar al Assad s regime, enabling Assad s army to slay his opponents with greater precision and resolve.

It has brought to the fore commitment to peace agreements by parties to the conflicts, a number of whom have found it convenient to take up their arms again to fight for causes that they believe could only be won on the battlefield.

These questions are vital for the future of the common European currency. In spite of their desire not to raise them, European leaders face the uncomfortable prospect of having to answer them and without much delay.

But, while it is comfortable to live in the social democratic world of Scandinavia, Germany, and other European countries, many of them have purchased their equality on credit from future generations.

The defensiveness of Jews and the uneasy silence of their friends mean that the stage of public debate is open for those who actually are anti Semitic, though they confine themselves to anti Israel language.

As a result, competitive displays have been interpreted as a way to demonstrate fitness to a potential mate. A bird that survives, despite inconvenient plumage that slows it down or makes it visible to predators, must be fit, and will likely sire a healthy progeny.

Perhaps it will be possible to persuade the Germans if the alternative is eurozone collapse, which would put the Deutschemark, or a Northern Euro, in the uncomfortable position that the Swiss franc occupies today too strong for its own good.

The comforting thing about the kind of data that Facebook primarily deals with is that it s public. If your friends and other people can see it, so can you.