Cold comfort to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a BP gadfly since the blowout began.
The only cold comfort in all of this is that the Republicans are over-reaching.
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This is cold comfort for Mr Bradley, because Mr Gore is doing something just as important.
For the 116 million Americans who live within 50 miles of a nuclear plant, that's cold comfort.
This "statistical recovery, " however, is cold comfort for the millions of Americans who have lost their job.
But that will be cold comfort to firms and consumers anticipating another tight winter in six months' time.
But that would be cold comfort for a politician who's just watched his signature achievement gutted or destroyed.
In any case the new protection offers cold comfort for the people we had met on the pensions march.
That is cold comfort in the face of a frightening and little-understood infection.
Now, I recognize, though, if you've already graduated that that may not -- that will be cold comfort for you.
Nexavar is still a breakthrough medicine for liver and kidney cancer, but that will be cold comfort for Onyx shareholders.
Some Guadalajarans find cold comfort by looking north, to Monterrey, where security has been in free fall for the past two years.
And the fact that Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) will appeal is cold comfort to many.
And the fact that Merck will appeal is cold comfort to many.
Many of these triggers are confidential, which is cold comfort for bondholders.
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It is cold comfort to taxpayers that the first week of the New Year passed without any bank failures, as SNL Financial reported on Jan. 10.
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Back in Barnsley and York that undoubted success story is cold comfort to two cash-strapped local councils paying millions for property they thought the taxpayer had already bought.
Such explanations likely would have been of cold comfort to the crowd of hot, thirsty, bedraggled people outside the convention center, even if they could have heard them.
That's cold comfort to companies that have lost once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
The Balkanisation of America has long been predicted by pessimistic conservatives, but they can take cold comfort in the probability that it will strike first in the Democratic Party.
But how much this would cheer the industry would depend on the price: it would be cold comfort if the price just balanced the expected value of future profits.
While the news comes as cold comfort for the 9.6% of Americans that are unemployed, it helped U.S. stocks extend their gains Monday as the major indexes push toward a fourth-straight positive week.
Still, that is cold comfort for the backers of products such as the iCache Geode, a strange and ambitious iPhone contraption combining NFC and e-paper with a reprogrammable credit card that was floated last April.
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The possibility that such mistakes are common will be cold comfort to the girl who lost a critical reproductive part, or to the family of the woman who died after being mistakenly transfused with oxygen.
This is cold comfort to the families of the elderly who died unnecessarily from the forcible evacuation from hospitals and care homes during the accident, something recently admitted by the Japanese government ( NYTimes Asia Pacific).
But that is cold comfort for managers that see tens of billions of dollars in sales going to their competitor each year mainly because it is not subject to the same constraints in developing and marketing its products.
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By and large, the benefit and tax changes announced on Wednesday will not do that, though that will be cold comfort for the 400, 000 extra people who will now hit the higher rate income tax threshold in 2014.
One encouraging sign is NFIP recently won approval to raise premiums 25 percent a year over the next five years, but rising costs for consumers are certainly cold comfort, and critics say far more still needs to be done.
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