Many workers seem dissatisfied (See Bartleby: "Hot desk, cold comfort").
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Some pen lines on a cocktail napkin are cold comfort.
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But if that's the case, it is pretty cold comfort.
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That may come as cold comfort for the nation's capital.
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That is cold comfort for firms whose technology has been stolen.
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That's cold comfort for issuers attempting to navigate new legal territory.
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Cold comfort, for the love of stuff can't replace love itself.
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Big-picture trends are cold comfort for those affected by violence.
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Even the 14.2 percent undecided should be cold comfort for the establishment.
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Like the bleak Russian winter, "Loveless" offers cold comfort for the soul.
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It may be cold comfort for many people who owe federal loans today.
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The argument that "post-election pain" is good for art is cold comfort.
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In time, the benefits should materialise but for now that's ice-cold comfort.
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But that is cold comfort given the brisk decline in Iran's exports to date.
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But that will likely be cold comfort to families struggling with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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Yet that is cold comfort to the residents of El Salvador, Honduras and Venezuela.
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" The last book that purposely made me laugh was Stella Gibbons's "Cold Comfort Farm.
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If my nerves are frayed, I take cold comfort in knowing I'm not alone.
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In such circumstances, "we have everything we need except political will" is cold comfort.
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But that will provide cold comfort to the majority of the electorate that supported her.
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A reading above zero indicates improvement, but a number that's barely positive is cold comfort.
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ADRIAN ROBSONLondon How wonderful to see an article on wild swimming ("Cold comfort", December 22nd).
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This, to most conservationists, comes as something between cold comfort and insult added to injury.
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Such historical analysis likely offered cold comfort to the animals left off of Noah's Ark.
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That's good news if you care about clean sport, but it's cold comfort for Cormier.
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That's some cold comfort in this disheartening moment for the state of America's healthcare system.
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To say this is cold comfort is not to pine for mythical good old days.
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But that's a cold comfort for fans of her work who happen to be transgender.
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Cold comfort for those living in the northern hemisphere as various cold snaps start to bite.
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Perhaps that is cold comfort, but there is growing evidence Republicans' comfort could be much warmer.
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That may be a cold comfort to the families still hoping, two years later, for answers.
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Winning the popular vote is cold comfort in a race that should never have been close.
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Still, it's likely cold comfort for Sedol, knowing he was up against many TPUs at once. 5.
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Please stretch to consider another equally diverting novel, "Cold Comfort Farm," Stella Gibbons's gleeful satire from 1932.
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He is full of shame, indignation, and self-loathing—all the cold comfort of the recently rejected.
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Hanging on to the bromide that Trump's base hasn't deserted him in wholesale fashion is cold comfort.
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This is cold comfort to those losing tax dollars to existing URAs (thus the fire district lawsuit).
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The $22004,21997 in compensation she received from the state of Illinois has proven to be cold comfort.
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That's cold comfort when it comes to seeing my own community commit the same infractions against others.
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But we end a crazy year huddled in the cold comfort of petrified division, united in helplessness.
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It's a largely symbolic gesture, and cold comfort to the 20163 reporters and editors who were laid off.
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Meanwhile, the expanded cash-counting capability at two IRS offices this tax season is "cold comfort," DeAngelo said.
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Confining the suffering to 18 plaintiff states would give cold comfort to veterans who live in those states.
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As the artist Brad Troemel sarcastically states, this type of narrative provides "cold comfort for the unwashed masses."
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It's cold comfort, I know, but as with all ultra-conservative positions, this one has a short shelf life.
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But for the Googlers who have been asked to work on the project, that has come as cold comfort.
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This is the cold comfort of reason: Perish if you must, my friends, for I am safe and sound.
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That's all great, but it's cold comfort for anyone new who wants to buy the game after October 1.
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Trump's flimsy paid family-leave policy would be cold comfort to families devastated by the rest of his budget.
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Even the vaunted "C-suite" job is cold comfort when it cost you hours with a lost loved one.
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That is cold comfort for other countries, especially commodity producers, which had come to count on ever-stronger Chinese demand.
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But for car owners like Mr. Osborn, automakers' outreach efforts are a cold comfort until parts for fixes are available.
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Those protesters can take only cold comfort that the same policies are now slowly suffocating the industry. Economist.com/blogs/buttonwood
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It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room.
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On the other hand, that fact is cold comfort to victims who find themselves the unwitting participants of a secret tape.
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It will be cold comfort to M&S to know that it is not the only high-street giant in trouble.
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Cold comfort from Europe Turkey does not enjoy a warm reception with Europe either, despite negotiations over the Syrian migration crisis.
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The fact that Upside Down Town Funk has finally entered my life at this late date is a cold, cold comfort.
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But that's cold comfort to people who can't afford not to work or those, like Ms. Bigbee, who are near retirement.
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Yet he told CNBC that Melwani's mea culpa was cold comfort for the problems he endured ahead of a milestone occasion.
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It is cold comfort that we have no evidence so far that Moscow actually manipulated vote tallies to change the election's outcome.
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But even if this occurs, it will be cold comfort to chronically jobless and underemployed on the fringes of the labor market.
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For the migrant workers CNN spoke to, the government's assurances fall on deaf ears and the middle-class sympathy is cold comfort.
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But this is cold comfort: The N.S.A. didn't need to prevent Microsoft patching the problem because Microsoft didn't even know it existed.
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A six-figure check to cover the loss of a beloved piece of art is cold comfort when the wall is bare.
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But if you believe that the problems of American politics have passed from the personal to the structural, this is cold comfort.
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"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room," the author wrote.
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But that is cold comfort for Mr Zhang: for its new production lines, the company wants younger workers, especially those with university degrees.
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But that's cold comfort when every other change seems tailor-made to smother the joyful collecting and experimenting that Destiny's original customization fostered.
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"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room," the official wrote.
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The weight of the data on the economy suggests people feel better about it, but that may prove cold comfort for the GOP.
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But this is cold comfort to federal workers who, according to one recent study, make 27 percent less than their private sector counterparts.
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Job creation and destruction may balance out in aggregate, but that is cold comfort for people who come out on the losing side.
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All of this is cold comfort to a buyer who laid out a large sum in good faith that the deal would happen.
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This may be cold comfort to non-superhero fans, but it's worth noting that each of these films remains remarkably distinctive from the others.
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That's true, but cold comfort to people who could have done better by paying less, and often done so while taking considerably less risk.
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" The writer went on: "It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room.
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That's cold comfort to the families of the 34 people and counting who died on Puerto Rico, a figure that is expected to rise.
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That may be cold comfort for some Republicans come the 2018 midterms, or Trump himself when he faces re-election in four years, however.
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While it is true (and quite fortunate) that these factors reduce at least the present risk of a biological attack, it is cold comfort.
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But that's cold comfort for the oil producers, however, which have seen prices fall from $114 a barrel in June 2014 to current levels.
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If so, it's cold comfort that Hunt and Kenney are making music amidst the madness, blowing us all sonic kisses through the horrid strife.
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But, assuming he's inclined to interpret the results more rationally than the president, that claim must be cold comfort for the Senate majority leader.
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There is some cold comfort: Ratiu expects the decline in affordability will moderate if home prices rise at lower rates and incomes continue to rise.
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For sex workers targeted by #ThotAudit, however, the knowledge that the harassment campaign was unlikely to end in action from the IRS was cold comfort.
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Though blood tests have shown she had elevated lead levels, the girl so far has no clear signs of injury - cold comfort for her father.
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But that's cold comfort to the Denims and the Vejonicas of this world, who may need to look to their own pantries for nomenclatural inspiration.
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Still, efforts to improve market regulations may be cold comfort for ordinary Chinese investors who are still nursing losses from last year's stock market fallout.
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But that's cold comfort for those writing a weekly column or those likely to meet that 35-submission cap in a month rather than a year.
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Cold comfort—the mouse, who has witnessed it all, escapes: The Owl, a Bird of Few Words, cursed the Pigeon for depriving him of a meal . . .
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But if a store closes in your neighborhood, it is cold comfort that the store that replaced it statistically is across town or in another borough.
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But it was cold comfort to think the order was triggered by legitimate concerns about a terrorist attack against an airplane on which I was a passenger.
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The real point, says Venter, is that actuarial arguments about efficient screening campaigns are cold comfort for those unfortunate enough to develop serious diseases early in life.
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"It may give Iranians cold comfort, in the end it may not be that big a distinction, but what Iran is doing is a bit more sophisticated."
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For the Thunder, his performance was cold comfort; for the Blazers (the, um, 27-35 Blazers), it provided an opportunity to lob passive-aggressive shots about teamwork.
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But "usually" will be cold comfort to Democrats, who have now won the popular vote and lost the Electoral College in two of the past five elections.
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But that is cold comfort in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, one that over the years has made a strong commitment to child welfare.
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The White House maintains it doesn't have any intention to use the census to crack down on non-citizens in the U.S. but that is cold comfort.
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Apple told The Guardian that less than 1% of daily queries are sent, cold comfort when the company is also constantly talking up the volume of Siri queries.
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Twitter's announcements today will likely come as cold comfort to the users who have been terrorized on the platform and had their abuse reports fall on deaf ears.
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It is cold comfort to Mr Zuckerberg that should his defences fail, Big Tech's critics will have to concede that digital monopolies are not that invincible after all.
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Low oil prices reflect both a weak global economy and clobber a critical sector of the domestic economy, against which lower gasoline prices at home are cold comfort.
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But that will be cold comfort to Democrats if 2020 proves to be a more normal year and artfully drawn maps come back to bite with a vengeance.
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That fact is probably cold comfort for Mr. Joyce, who disputes the New Zealand government's finding and said he was leaving it for the Australian courts to decide.
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It would probably have come as cold comfort to Keats to know that a couple centuries after his death, he'd be revered as one of our greatest poets.
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China and Indonesia clash from time to time over maritime territory and fishing rights; that Jakarta has no mutual defense pact with Washington is cold comfort for Beijing.
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For the politically concerned citizen, Untitled 2016 offers cold comfort, but three booths stand out for their focus on human narratives and how they can be processed through art.
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But you know that's pretty cold comfort for the women of Alabama right now who need reproductive health and don't have the ability to be able to get it.
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"Shrugging and saying data breaches happen is cold comfort for Americans who could have their information spilled out to hackers without their consent or knowledge," he told BuzzFeed News.
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"Promises centered on present circumstances provide cold comfort, particularly in the context of an impeachment inquiry that provides new and often unpredictable revelations on a daily basis," Cooper adds.
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"The argument that currencies will adjust will be cold comfort and probably not fly with Middle American consumers who are concerned about having to pay more for products," he said.
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For the 21,225 fans who paid to sit there on a wintry afternoon, and millions tuning in via TV in some 210 countries worldwide, van Gaal's words carried cold comfort.
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Yet the explanation of the USO's poor performance is likely cold comfort to those who have done so badly on a trade they may have thought was a home run.
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Of course, the knowledge that the total gains exceed the total losses is cold comfort to factory workers in Ohio or Pennsylvania who have lost their jobs to foreign competition.
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" But the remaining customers seemed cold comfort to Mr. Eberle, of the Dolphin Gift Shop, who was wearing a black tank top that read, "I survived Tropical Storm Hermine 2016.
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But as the original chart at the top of this column showed, being eventually right is cold comfort if you&aposve been badly wrong for a long stretch of time.
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For that reason, Jeffries said that solutions such as free college offered by Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders are cold comfort to needy students ill-prepared for the rigors of college.
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When, after investing a great deal of time and emotional energy trying to solve a family mystery, the narrator of "Little Rooster" finally unearths the truth, the discovery brings cold comfort.
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But that will be cold comfort as the party remains in the minority despite the existence of a vacancy on the Supreme Court and what looks increasingly like a Republican presidency.
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They'd likely have a hard time hitting the US if they did have a big H-bomb, but that's a cold comfort if they just want to nuke Seoul or Tokyo.
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"Being a subject is better than being a target of criminal investigation by a federal grand jury, but it is cold comfort," said Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School.
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This piece offers little more than hollow reassurances that there are adults in the room, cold comfort for a nation whose democratic norms are under assault and weakening by the day.
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But that historical knowledge may be cold comfort for a chief justice who is more accustomed to drawing conclusions on critical issues only after thorough deliberation and outside of public view.
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In a state Trump won by more than 20 points, Tester's slim lead in recent polls is likely cold comfort for Democrats fighting to preserve their hopes of retaking the Senate.
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But that's cold comfort for people whose futures, or the futures of their friends or family, depend on having champions in Washington — and who saw Democrats fail, once again, to hold firm.
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It works almost instantly but during this brief period of cold comfort I fret about how I'm going to get through the rest of today and a second treatment in the future.
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The poet's publisher reassures the Mother that her hard work was "worth it," but it feels like cold comfort when her husband can barely be bothered to look her in the eye.
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In Monday trading, Weight Watchers rose about 65 cents, but that is cold comfort to those who owned the stock before its earnings report, when it was trading at $15 to $16.
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Unemployment in the 19-country euro zone fell slightly in January but the figures will be cold comfort for a region seeing slowing growth, business activity and exports and dismal inflation data.
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He enjoyed the power, while I enjoyed the cold comfort of knowing that I could burst his bubble by telling him who my dad was, but a good actor never breaks character.
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Bloomberg may actually have the worst foreign policy views of the field, but that's cold comfort when you consider the power that the military industrial complex will have over any incoming president.
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All of the scheming was cold comfort to the handful of fans of the Chargers, the Raiders and the Rams who traveled to Houston and were left to mill around outside the hotel.
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That is probably cold comfort for any actors who were tortured by Weinstein, but it is a sliver of redemption — and proof that male allies are crucial to the #MeToo movement as well.
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Better late than never is pretty cold comfort when you consider the ugly social divisions that malicious entities have fueled by being so freely able to misappropriate the amplification power of social media.
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Compared with the potentially game-changing strides forward promised by the Clinton campaign, this is cold comfort — but it is something we can cling to as we prepare for the fights to come.
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Stella Gibbons's gloriously satirized Cold Comfort Farm, home to the doom-laden Starkadders, and Mervyn Peake's gloriously morose Gormenghast, ancestral seat of the hapless Earls of Groan, provide a welcome touch of novelty.
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I want those in each political party who take cold comfort in the anti-Semitism or opposition to Israel in the opposing party to realize they do no service to Jews in America.
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And Google says LG's upcoming V20 smartphone will be the first new smartphone to ship with Nougat when it's introduced next month, but that's cold comfort for anyone specifically wanting Samsung's flagship device.
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The victory of the suffragettes is cold comfort for women fighting for equal pay; claiming that liberalism abolished Jim Crow does nothing to tell us how it will fix the new Jim Crow.
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But Jordan (Gideon Glick, in an expert performance) isn't even allowed the cold comfort of walking down the aisle — in hideous pastels and clutching a bouquet — behind his soon-to-be-wedded bestie.
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While this was still triple Amazon's closing price on its IPO, it was cold comfort for investors who had been up more than 50 times on their money as recently as two years prior.
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So would the tariffs that Northern Irish firms would need to pay on British imports (the fact that they could claim rebates if the imports were destined for the local market is cold comfort).
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Thankfully Pegglecrew claim their malware has "zero effect other than overwriting the MBR," which might be cold comfort to the hundreds of peeved users trying to figure out why their computers won't start up.
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Yes, but: This will be cold comfort to the uninsured and people with high deductibles, for whom rising list prices matter a great deal, especially for a drug people depend on to stay alive.
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For whatever reason, Democratic voters who backed Obama simply didn't come out for Clinton — and it is cold comfort that she is set to defeat Trump by a small margin in the popular vote.
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Prices are still well below those seen in 103 — the year the oil market crashed — but that's likely cold comfort to drivers watching the figures on gas station signs tick higher day after day.
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But that is cold comfort to the more than half of workers — roughly 103 million — who don't have access to a retirement plan on the job or the people who can't afford financial advice.
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Which is perhaps rather cold comfort when you consider that Facebook had — apparently — zero suspicious about all the Kremlin propaganda violently coursing across its platform in 2016 and generating hundreds of millions of views.
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And his victory in the territory of American Samoa was cold comfort when faced with that stark reality -- and Bloomberg announced his exit from the 2020 race the morning after his Super Tuesday performance.
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But it was quite literally cold comfort, with Thursday's storm expected to drop 10 to 14 inches of snow or more on the city and potentially create blizzard conditions along the New England coast.
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I think in an app world we will delude ourselves into this cold comfort that unemployment will be low, but will arbitrage people down from middle-class jobs to part-time temporary TaskRabbit jobs.
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That may be cold comfort to you, but I think it's important to recognize that any parent who would say something so undermining to a child is clearly struggling with their own self-worth.
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An HBO spokesperson did tell Motherboard that the fight will be available at select bars, restaurants, and movie theaters, but that's cold comfort for anyone who isn't lucky enough to live near a participating venue.
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Chicago's 5.83 consecutive days below 20 degrees Fahrenheit tied a record seen only twice before in 1895 and 1936 The study's findings are likely cold comfort to the millions who just experienced bone-chilling conditions, though.
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It is a cold comfort, but at least when Daenerys inevitably becomes the Queen of Ashes, it seems she might finally be able to rest with the love that was ripped away from her years ago.
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"Whatever word games they want to play will be a cold comfort to the victims of the crimes that these felons are going to be commit," Cotton told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt before the meeting.
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It is cold comfort that most of the country now believes that Trump isn't a steady or moral or compassionate leader and half believe he isn't honest, according to a Fox News Poll released last week.
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" He's right, but that would be cold comfort for the 80 people who die so the politicians can avoid making a decision that—according to Rickman—"is obvious to anyone not trying to avoid making a decision.
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Last month's small bounce is cold comfort for TIPS investors smarting from a 1.44 percent loss in the sector in 2015, when regular government debt eked out a 0.84 percent return, according to indexes compiled by Barclays.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Roger Federer has given cold comfort to the next generation of men's players hoping for Grand Slam glory, saying he, Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal are still deserving favorites to claim the game's biggest trophies.
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The determination that Trump is a weak president, struggling to assert power — and indeed on the brink of a failed presidency — ought to be cold comfort to Democrats and liberals, because weak presidents can be dangerous leaders.
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These damaged crops can sometimes be salvaged for juice, but that's a cold comfort to growers, because fruit loses as much as eighty to ninety per cent of its value when it's downgraded from produce to processing.
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"Of course, the courage and common sense of a minority of senators will be cold comfort to the millions of Yemenis struggling to survive without adequate food or health services amidst daily bombing and shelling," he said.
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Apple stresses that your recorded utterances are not associated with your Apple account, but that is cold comfort if you're truly worried about a human contractor potentially hearing private information the HomePod accidentally heard in your house.
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The magazine reports that Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Andrew Lincoln (Rick) were in attendance, which should bring cold comfort to fans who couldn't bear the thought of Daryl and Rick seeing their long-time comrade's head bashed in.
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Find the tracks, like "Cold Comfort", "Cardinal Dancer", "DOH-T" and "Cairodrome" on YouTube, and you'll read comments like "this track is perfection", "this is so fucking timeless", "the only reason I got a PlayStation", and "best soundtrack ever".
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The state of North Korea's missile program means they'd likely have a hard time hitting the US if they did have a big H-bomb, but that's a cold comfort if they just want to nuke Seoul or Tokyo.
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And even if their appeal is approved, McSherry said it can take two weeks until that content restores, and "if you are commenting on something that is happening in real time," that amount of time "is really cold comfort."
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Still, even some Democrats who supported the legislation couched it as cold comfort as the Trump administration prepares to argue before a federal appeals court next month that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional.
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Some of Mr. Trump's critics, alarmed by his mix of brash tactics, bullying speeches and casual relationship with the truth, have found a measure of cold comfort of late across the Atlantic in Britain's vote to exit the European Union.
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The families of those who died in this obscure war -- in which perhaps 100,000 perished -- will take cold comfort from knowing their loved ones were the victims of what may have been the most violent family squabble in Africa's history.
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"The potential benevolence of individual line-agents is cold comfort from the standpoint of those persons who are located far from the border and are now in the agency's crosshairs, when, prior to the New Designation, they were not," Jackson wrote.
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This is cold comfort for steel makers, who face a scramble for immediate cargoes, but it does mean the Debbie-related price surge is likely to come and go within a matter of weeks, rather than months as occurred when Yasi struck.
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Related:Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks Election Night and What Hamilton Would Think of Today's 'Mudslinging' Hamilton is actually Ontario's oldest musical theater company, which is a distinction that probably came as a cold comfort to Leonard as she waded through the vitriol on Twitter.
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This is obviously cold comfort in an era defined by both the reification of the Internet as a font for all knowledge (correct or incorrect) and the genesis of an web-based political cobra that whips back to bite its handlers with regularity.
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"This wishful gesture was the only way I could get myself a car—cold comfort for the current impossibility of my dream that I, as an independent person, can drive myself to work one day," states the artists about her performance piece.
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While he's glad President Donald Trump and Congress will ensure these employees get back pay when the shutdown is over, he knows that's cold comfort for lower-paid employees who either don't have a lot in savings or are living paycheck to paycheck.
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In these past few harassment-story-saturated weeks, women have appeared in caches of 10 and 20, finally sheltered by the weight of their own numbers and the relative, if cold, comfort of corroboration, telling story after story of intimidation and predation.
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It seems like we'll be waiting a little while longer before any BokuMono title leaves room for relationships outside of rigid heteronormativity—the ability to dance with members of the same sex at the occasional seasonal festival is cold comfort until then.
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For the refugees who are actually affected, this is cold comfort: "There is nothing 'temporary' about leaving innocent families stranded and at grave risk while their government-issued security clearances expire," Mark Hetfield, the executive director of HIAS, said in response to the new order.
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Furthermore, while it may make the non-Uighurs among us feel better that we were not the targets of this campaign, it's cold comfort as the targeted demographic could just as easily have been a political or religious institution we do take part in.
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Assurances from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the Republican-controlled Senate will not convict him in a trial early next year were something of a cold comfort for Trump, who has frequently complained the "nasty" word of impeachment was being associated with him.
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While it's conceivable that the two countries may build on this effort in the future, and move toward some kind of more lasting agreement, that's cold comfort for the Aleppo residents who are currently living through what Selmo calls "the end of the world."
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Although the $7.2 billion payment is far from negligible, investors may take some cold comfort from the fact it is less than $20.93 billion that Bank of America was required to stump up in August 2014 and the $9.0 billion charged to JPMorgan Chase in November 2013.
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Not that Heathcliff would dare to set foot in the 19th-century parsonage inhabited by the forbidding Agatha (a deliciously stern Linda Powell), her giddy sister, Huldey (Birgit Huppuch), and their rustic scullery maid, Marjory (Hannah Cabell, who might have stepped out of "Cold Comfort Farm").
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The hallmark has been a relentless dichotomy that has provided cold comfort to the workforce, weighing on the minds of those whose wages have barely kept pace with inflation, manifesting in a wave of anger that has created a political climate perhaps unlike any the nation has ever seen.
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In the end the issue is whether we are willing to jeopardize our liberty in exchange for the cold comfort that comes from the belief that the government, like an ageless parent, will look after us and that we will be relieved of any personal responsibility for our own welfare.
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It's not a dairy cow's fault that it was bred to produce a nigh-ungodly amount of milk (the Holstein Association promises approximately nine gallons a day) that needs to be drained twice a day, but this will be cold comfort if it gets annoyed during milking and kicks your head in.
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For his part, Barr has indicated a willingness to provide a summary of the report's highlights, but that's cold comfort for those wanting to know more than just whether Mueller found evidence sufficient to charge and convict individuals with a crime (Mueller has already answered that in the affirmative via dozens of indictments to date).
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This is cold comfort at best, since the main reason the rate increase has slowed is because more workers are moving to high-deductible plans, in which the insurer requires members to spend a higher amount of their own money out of pocket — even for doctor's visits and prescriptions — before it starts to pay for anything.
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The cold comfort of Dada Africa is that it straightforwardly presents Dada paintings, sculptures, collages, photo-collages, letters, sound pieces, and photographs cheek by jowl with non-Western cultural objects, like the stunning "Masculine Figure" (late-19th century) from the Baoulé tribe of the artistically rich Ivory Coast once in the collection of Parisian art dealer Paul Guillaume.
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The NCAA claims that the vote to restore games to North Carolina was a "reluctant" one, but that is cold comfort to the trans people in the state who are once again placed in untenable positions, who are once again told they are unworthy of protection, who are once again sent the message that it really doesn't matter to the powerful, moneyed interests whether we live or die.
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Reality for those of us on the ground is different: My industry alone lost over 500,85033 direct manufacturing jobs and another million-and-a-half indirect jobs, and thousands of business owners in other industries struggled through sleepless nights, knowing only too well that while the narrative coming from the Ivory Tower offered protection to the political class, it was cold comfort to those on the front line — those who knew, such as economist Susan Houseman at the Upjohn Institute, that automation actually had very little to do with the job losses.
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