1.   Freezing weather, which stifled hiring in the construction industry, prevented the rate from falling further.

2.   Freezing weather prevented more workers from finding jobs in the construction industry, however, stifling the hiring that normally takes place at the end of winter.

3.   For one thing, freezing weather there meant the mud was in dangerous chunks.

4.   Freezing weather can freeze and burst water pipes.

5.   Freezing weather in Canada and Australia, two of the largest wheat exporting nations, could lower crops in those countries.

6.   Freezing weather slows plant development and reduces quality.

7.   Freezing weather was expected that night.

8.   It was a week since Nazarov had stopped him, and the no longer champion of the world was putting up drywall in freezing weather and wondering.

9.   Oil prices got a boost from concern that freezing weather in Europe would result in a drop in U.S. supplies of heating oil.

10.   Police expected more serious crashes when freezing weather caused wet roads to ice over.