While the policy was once bi-partisan, it is no longer, with senior Liberal government figures calling for it to be frozen, wound back or abolished.
It's the opposite of the archetypal Scottish fish supper, eaten post-pub, semi-drunk, freezing wind blowing against the chip grease smeared across your face.
The headmaster stood and led us in a last storm of applause and then we filed out of the chapel into a hard, freezing wind.
Bitterly cold weather hampered the snowstorm recovery effort in north-east US on Wednesday as freezing wind gusts saw temperatures dip below 0F (-18C) in parts of the region.
Sergei had told her that it was warm in London, but the weather had turned foul, with sleet and freezing wind, so later we went together to buy a pair of boots.
On Sunday afternoon, five young Hasidic men stood in freezing wind outside the Gretsch Building, a 10-story, 200,000-square-foot former musical instrument factory that is being converted to luxury condominiums selling for about $550 per square foot.
On Feb. 10, 1943, all the inmates were marshaled out into the prison yard at 3 in the morning, then required to stand — their prison-issue rags useless against the snow, ice and freezing wind — until day broke, and night fell.
The answers range from a kind of "bootie" for wings to a freezing wind tunnel where Nasa engineers blast model planes with icy air.
In years prior, the marathon has been marked by freezing rain, heat and humidity, below freezing wind chills, snow and death.
Or until you've turned the corner of a Manhattan avenue, only to be knocked over by a gust of freezing wind.
