It is hard to draw any firm conclusions from the scene that we find: one man grapples a paramedic trying to remove him from the aftermath of a fight while a group of girls with their heels in their hands are huddling around a friend being sick.
Other politicians retreat from the people huddling for "corner meetings" indoors, phoning speeches to small gatherings of voters and relying on television and social media.
But recently, reports have surfaced in the American press accusing Pakistan of assisting North Korea's illicit nuclear programme and of continuing to back some pro-Taliban groups in Afghanistan.Mexico and Chile are huddling together, hoping not to be forced to choose between their traditional anti-war stance and their relationship with their most important trading partner, America.
But then he made an ill-judged quip that those huddling in tent cities should think of themselves as being on a "weekend of camping".
Farmers and residents of Gorakhpur, a scruffy, fast-growing market town in eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP), have waited for hours in a wintry wind to hear him, weather-beaten old men huddling for warmth at the front.
Treasury officials huddling over the bids trickling in from private-equity firms and others for Northern Rock, the stricken mortgage lender, would do well to read it before blithely signing a deal.
Some poor people still spend the winter nights beneath the streets (open manholes are a pedestrian hazard), huddling near the pipes for warmth.
Japan's past hardly seems relevant any more, except for the memory that it is the only nation to have suffered nuclear attack.Beyond pity at seeing residents of a rich, proud country scavenging for food, hoarding bottled water and huddling for shelter on schoolroom floors, it was hard not to feel admiration as well.
That will leave it with €19 billion of cash reserves, sufficient to cover the government's needs for 2014.In this section Edifice complex Hope springs eternal Year of the lawyer Banking on the ummah Huddling for comfort Fitter yet fragile Stoneless rivers ReprintsThere are stirrings of life in the battered Irish economy.
Its fine came six months after an earlier settlement and admission by Barclays that its traders, too, had tried to rig LIBOR.In this section Edifice complex Hope springs eternal Year of the lawyer Banking on the ummah Huddling for comfort Fitter yet fragile Stoneless rivers ReprintsThe UBS case marked an escalation of the risk faced by big banks in two respects.
If computing used to be mainly about defending the citadel, it is now more about huddling with partners.In which case, you would expect more high-tech companies to appoint leaders like Ms Greene.
