1.   At the least, a more relaxed political climate helps undermine left-wing opposition to their painful economic reforms.

2.   A warming climate may help account for the difference.

3.   Economists say a good business climate can help a little.

4.   Of course a puritan climate will help sustain that convention by directly inhibiting the press.

5.   She had been born in Austria but was sent to Holland by her family in the hope that the Dutch climate would help strengthen her weak lungs.

6.   That low inflation climate has helped bunds fare better than U.S. Treasuries and driven the gap between yields in the two countries further apart.

7.   The benign climate helped.

8.   The better industry climate should help boost the book-to-bill ratio.

9.   The cruel climate also helped make for a perverse night of baseball, particularly from the Cleveland Indians.

10.   The tough consumer climate will help Moebel Walther going forward, he said.