Having made his economic reputation in fair weather, Mr Brown must now cope with more troubled times.
Nothing builds a fair weather band wagon like a decade of dominance.
When he looks at the latency on an exchange, he wants to know more than how it functions in fair weather conditions, he wants to know how it works in something like the flash crash.
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Sure, we have a couple of months of fair weather yet, and several more weeks of summer, but Labor Day is the last major summer holiday when friends and family gather around the hibachi, kettle grill, or gas grill, or whatever it is you cook on.
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George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, clung for too long to his fair-weather formula about sharing the proceeds of non-existent growth.
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At the same time, Romney is a fair-weather friend of coal.
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But yes, some people who have been fair-weather friends, no doubt at those Krug and shepherd's pie parties, will steal away into the night.
If you hesitate before signing on to the idea of imported science, it could be because you are only a fair-weather believer in free trade.
Our plan was to take a six-day jaunt along the Har Ki Doon Trail, a 50-mile round-trip said to be ideally suited to the fair-weather trekker.
Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
If the weather is fair, request a table under magnolia trees in the intimate outdoor garden.
Meteorologists can tell you, about five days out, with fair certainty what the weather will be like in your city or town.
Dave Wheeler, a photographer and local weather forecaster on Fair Isle, in Shetland, was monitoring Monday's swell charts.
Fed with digitised topographical data and a weather forecast, it can make a fair stab at predicting the behaviour of a bush fire.
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The weather has been lovely and there has been a fair bit of wind, which is what the competitors need.
As for a funeral, it was hot weather and the crops were in the ground and the roads were dry and the fair was over.
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