But we are talking about people who have slept in their cold house for five nights in a row.
But modern Egypt is overwhelmingly Muslim, and many Christians are worried that under an Islamist government, the country will become for them an increasingly cold house.
Unionists formed the single group as they claimed the council had become a cold house for them and they were not getting their fair share of posts.
With four young children, my husband and I were worried about how cold our house was getting.
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The house, cold, empty and boarded up, was a wooden Dutch Colonial at the edge of the water.
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"I hired a well-known interior designer who made the house gray and cold, " said Mrs.
Now mold is growing upstairs because the house has been cold and damp for so long.
Although they now have a friend in the White House, the cold economy and cold winter will cool public ardor for global warming initiatives.
The family denied the house was dangerously cold, saying they had been burning trash but the fire had burned out overnight, according to Mr. Akimkin.
Many have a sheltered garden at the back and an external porch called a tambour that keeps the cold and snow from entering the house (they are 800 miles north of Boston).
Then comes a car chase through the foggy forest to which he has fled, and, lastly, a bizarre and moping chamber piece, with our hero holed up in a deserted house, lashings of cold rain, and a pair of useless police officers bickering over his doom.
Unlike most of lower Manhattan, we had running water, even if cold as the brook down from the house.
The streets of Glasgow weren't nearly as friendly 65 years ago when the young Billy Connolly arrived with a plop on the cold linoleum floor of his parents' tenement house.
Cavity wall insulation slows down the rate at which warm air escapes your property, keeping each room of your house warm even when it is bitterly cold outside.
But the current FEC chairman, David Mason, has been left out in the cold, his renomination dropped without explanation by the White House.
House textiles were the best-performing category, with the cold weather leading to a boom in duvet sales.
Taking the safe-house notion even further, a smattering of houses built during the Cold War sit atop fallout shelters, ready for use in the event of disaster.
When the weather is dreary and cold, there's nothing better than cooking something that heats up the house and fills it with fragrant aromas unless it's someone else doing the cooking.
Ah, but buy enough time, in the White House scenario, and we will have developed alternative fuels, "cold cracking" refineries and hydrogen cars.
But paramedics called to her house in Yeovil on the occasion of Michael's death found him cold with dilated eyes "like he had been dead some time".
If those in this house survived the Panic of 1893 or the Great Depression, or bathed with cold water and used an outhouse, then surely I know I can weather high gas prices.
If the house itself is devoted to the interwar era, the collection is all about the Cold War.
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White House officials are now offering a theory of summits that was heard occasionally during the cold war era.
At the time, some critics felt threatened by the design, calling it "cold" and "barren, " but most lauded this experiment in blurring the boundaries between house and nature.
"We have to continue managing our business as a business -- taking account of the cold realities of competition for customers, for revenues and for employees, " Liddy told a House Financial Services subcommittee.
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On just about every cold sidewalk in New Hampshire is someone with a clipboard, carrying campaign literature and peering up at house numbers.
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