But then in the middle of the dark and cold winter of 2010 something happened.
Having stood watch in the dark and the cold and travelled through convoys surrounded by foreign nationals, any of whom may want to attack us, I can attest to the difficulty of judgment calls.
The festival links yin and yang, the qualities of light and dark or cold and warmth (among others) to the waxing and waning of the sun's light.
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What I can say for sure, however, is this: We cannot afford to be in the dark and the cold for too long.
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It was going dark and getting cold at the time.
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Boston (CNN) -- A monster blizzard has left at least one person dead and hundreds of thousands of New Englanders in the dark and in the cold Friday night, thanks to a storm that's already delivered whipping winds and more than a foot of snow in some parts, with prospects of even double that by the time it's done.
There is clear evidence that winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and the much more recent Little Ice Age than either now or other comparably warm periods.
Enthusing people, on a dark, cold and wet Thursday in November, to vote for someone for a position they may barely understand.
About 650, 000 homes and businesses were left without electricity, and some could be cold and dark for days.
If this thing gets ugly, with severe damage, lots of wires down, and people freezing in the cold and the dark, we can expect to hear the refrain for change to grow louder.
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And the only way they're going to protect themselves in the cold and the dark, when they're vulnerable, is with a firearm.
Or if anyone had told him that a great chunk of the north-east was cold, dark and soaking wet.
The night was so cold and dark that the snow made squeaking noises as it settled in drifts around the big, square yard.
It means strengthening power systems with smarter designs to prevent the multi-day outages that left hundreds of thousands in the cold and dark for days following the storm.
Before Saakashvili came to power, there were winters when Georgians stayed in the cold and dark due to lack of power and corruption among public servants but it rarely gets mentioned today.
The aggregated cost of being without electricity for the 655, 000 people plunged into the cold and dark by the so-called Nemo storm, are distributed among the sufferers, and thus that cost is invisible, as is everything if one closes one's eyes hard enough.
Several local arts groups are also campaigning to save the town's theatre and as many are expected to turn up, the council said it would open the reception area so "people don't have to wait in the cold and the dark".
Cold, dark, remote and with little physical or regulatory infrastructure to support an oil industry, it is the Arctic's wildcat energy frontier.
"It was May Fest 2010 and it was a cold, dark night, " she said.
The photographs and videos of Simpson wearing dark gloves at cold weather football games have circulated for months, but the prosecution did not try to introduce them into evidence.
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Even as the ice recedes, the Arctic will remain extraordinarily cold, dark, remote, expensive and difficult to operate in.
The whole ambience of the site reflects the TV show perfectly, with a dark blue background, cold silhouettes of the set and Anne.
Inside the sanctuary, the air was cold, dusty, and almost dark.
At once, millions of people held their collective breaths, and no doubt shared a moment of vertigo, and the Austrian stepped out into the dark, cold nothingness.
From there, it shifts into a metallic stomp, complete with swooping strings and Lanegan's dark-lord delivery, complete with elliptical references to suffering, "cold lips, " and "the devil's plaything" that hint at sex, death, and masochism.
The street vendors with their cold-dark faces stood by their merchandise and called out loud for customers.
Awfully hot sun in downtown New Orleans and it was only right that a cold, dark IMAX theatre was waiting for me.
It was cold in the fall in Milan, and the dark came very early.
Dark and cluttered inside, Vaughan's is a perfect place to nurse a cold beer in the afternoon.
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