1.   Asean is a cozy club of mainly authoritarian leaders whose human rights policies benefit themselves at the expense of their people.

2.   Outside the cozy Senate club, however, her reputation for serious, hard work has yet to register.

3.   The best solution to this problem is to restructure how corporate boards are chosen, so they cease to be cozy clubs of deferential rich people.

4.   The cozy club, whose walls are decorated with old masks and posters, is located on a deserted street in a once-fashionable neighborhood.

5.   Even in periods of democratic competition, Colombian politics has maintained the appearance of cozy club.

6.   It has now become the first former Soviet republic to request membership of what used to be considered as a cozy club of rich industrial nations.