Reflecting how overpowering bureaucracy in Brazil can be, the client is stunned when told of a raft of inexplicable charges, suddenly producing an unpayable debt on an account that had shown a comfortable balance a day earlier.
Polling showing a comfortable Conservative lead could encourage such defections, if Conservatives think their candidate is likely to win anyway, or discourage them if local voters feel Ukip have no chance of winning.
India's general elections, described as the world's biggest democratic exercise, have come to a close with results showing a comfortable win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Opinion polls showed a comfortable Conservative lead, and local council election results had also been successful, prompting Thatcher to call a general election for 11 June that year, despite the deadline for an election still being 12 months away.
The study results show that a comfortable microclimate can be provided by roadside trees in heavily built-up urban environments in subtropical cities for nearly 70% of the summer.
And if the floral prints and polka-dot fabric showed a designer comfortable with his feminine side, then it makes perfect sense that almost the entire menswear collection could also be ordered for women.
By the fall of 1951, Lindbergh felt sufficiently comfortable to show a version to his first reader — his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by then a best-selling writer of memoirs and diaries in her own right.
As a ritual meal, the yazna followed the established rules of hospitality: the guest was sent an invitation; on his arrival from afar he was greeted, shown to a comfortable seat, given meat and a refreshing and invigorating drink, and entertained with song extolling his great deeds and virtues.
The scene shows a couple in comfortable clothes and bare feet, talking casually in their kitchen.
While public opinion is shifting rapidly across the country and same-sex marriage continues to achieve legal recognition state by state, polls in North Carolina before the vote showed a narrowing but comfortable margin for passage.
