• They are now having to re-lay the entire track again, and they need to wait for the ice to freeze down to -9C.

    BBC: As it happened - Winter Olympics day four

  • Uphill skiing exacts a punishing cardiovascular toll so much so that skiers have to be carefully manage their clothing to make sure they don't sweat too much on the ascent only to freeze while skiing down.

    WSJ: Ski Mountaineering: Now They're Racing Up the Hill

  • But now that you do have the ability to slow it down, freeze it, this that and the other, it's definitely something to look into.

    WSJ: MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014

  • While China is in a category separate from the Warsaw Pact, we believe it appropriate for the United States, together with its COCOM partners to freeze (if not down-grade), the level of Western dual-use technology currently available to the Chinese government.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: "US Relations With China"

  • So even a selective hiring freeze, not a total hiring, but a selective hiring freeze would shrink this bureaucracy down to a manageable size within four years.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Foxconn denied reports that the hiring freeze was caused by a slow down in production for the iPhone 5.

    FORBES: Was The Latest Apple Sell-Off Premature?

  • Not because the proposition is untrue, but because the "whole idea" of the freeze is to get councils' financial bases down.

    BBC: Council tax freeze splits Tories

  • The idea was to slim down by attrition and a hiring freeze.

    CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

  • The charges of sexual harassment and his brain freeze on Libyan policy may have brought him down, but the poll concluded this Monday still found him with a 70% favorable rating among primary voters.

    FORBES: Cautionary Tales Part 1: Herman Cain

  • Rep. Ryan is calling for a non-security discretionary spending freeze for 10 years, spending limits further down the road and major changes to current entitlement programs to prevent them from eating up an increasing part of the budget.

    FORBES: Is Rep. Ryan's Plan An Austerity Program? No Way, Spokesman Says

  • The move - which upped the ante from an earlier pay freeze announcement by the government - did not go down well with public sector workers.

    BBC: At-a-glance: Tory conference

  • "To put these numbers in perspective, the loss of work years from the furloughs and hiring freeze ... is the equivalent of shutting down three of the FBI's largest field offices Chicago, Miami and Baltimore, " the FBI director added.

    NPR: AG, FBI Warn Against Across-The-Board Spending Cut

  • There is speculation of a freeze in pensions and public sector pay, a clamp-down on early retirement and a cut in spending on infrastructure.

    BBC: Spain budget: Cutting back for growth tomorrow

  • Unlike those earlier tools, Nokia City Lens lets you freeze the view, so that you can put the camera down to choose your options without having to awkwardly hold your device in the air to continue seeing the overlaid information.

    BBC: Best travel tech in 2012

  • So if I were to take just Brazilian interests in consideration I would approve of the freeze to prevent Argentina from collapsing and bringing the rest of us down.

    BBC: NEWS | Talking Point | Argentina: Should people be given free access to their bank accounts?

  • Nellie negotiated that sum down a bit and forced the Athens Stock Exchange to freeze trading of Alumil stock so that the kidnappers couldn't force her to liquidate the family's 70% holding.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • NASA's scientists have designed a device that would be carefully sterilised, and would then melt its way down through the ice, allowing the melt-water to freeze behind it to prevent contamination.

    ECONOMIST: Planetary pretenders

  • Mr. Obama's public opinion ratings are worse among Palestinians, who were disappointed the president backed down from a bid to force Israel to agree to a settlement freeze early on in his presidency.

    WSJ: Obama to Visit Israel, West Bank

  • "On the face of it a 20p a day rise doesn't sound much, but we should remember NHS staff have had a pay freeze since 2010 and this means, in real terms, their pay is down by nearly 10% due to inflation and this creates more financial hardship, " he said.

    BBC: Ipswich Hospital

  • In fact, if Congress were to implement my proposal to freeze non-security discretionary spending for three years, it would bring this spending down to its lowest level as share of the economy in 50 years.

    WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Priorities on Taxes

  • But Paulson and other banking regulators sat tight until the subprime mortgage market imploded in the summer, bringing down with it a few hedge funds and, more significant, putting a virtual freeze on the fixed-income markets.

    FORBES: A Subprime Solution

  • To succeed, he will have to travel some 700 miles in temperatures cold enough to freeze the fluid in his nose and eyes, pulling the equivalent of two Sumo wrestlers up and down steep ridges while trying to avoid lethal gaps in the ice.

    BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Up the Pole

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