When Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain both died by suicide this summer, it felt like the entire internet was blanketed with messages of support for anyone contemplating self harm: call suicide hotlines, reach out to friends and family members, don't be afraid to seek professional help.
A cohort of young progressive lawmakers have been openly critical of the Israeli government, in a break from a tradition of blanket support from both sides of the US political divide.
ISDS replaces this impetus of capitalism with the comfort blanket of permanent society support.
We could enclose them in a blanket of love, care, support, hugs, even gifts, long after the funeral is over, long after people go on their way to live their lives and leave the grieving person to navigate their grief alone.
But the Tory position falls far short of blanket support for the government.
And yesterday's statement of blanket support for same-sex marriage by Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Russ Feingold has the blogosphere speculating on fallout.
Bollettieri says the academy covered everything from omelets to orthodontia in its blanket financial support of the four-member Seles family.
This practice of blanket bereavement support contradicts findings showing grief intervention may be ineffective, or even harmful, for the majority who manage to integrate the loss into their lives [ 2, 26].
Governments of astonishing incompetence had for many years no policy other than the blanket support of a rapacious forestry industry run on scandalous subsidies.
Rob James-Collier, who plays Thomas the footman in Downton Abbey, aired similar concerns in an interview earlier in the year with the Radio Times in which he claimed that working-class performers were being squeezed aside because they did not have the "comfort blanket" of a wealthy family to support them.
