1.   But reducing punishment at any level will be tough for any politician in the current climate.

2.   Change will be hard to achieve in the current climate.

3.   Delegates in Jakarta were urged to get full value out of every penny spent, especially in the current economic climate.

4.   Especially today, in the current volatile climate, it is vital that leaders steer a clear and consistent course.

5.   Fifth, it offered targets, such as the minimum wage, that were impossible to defend in the current climate.

6.   Funding will depend on the sale of extraneous plots for other developments, not an easy matter in the current climate.

7.   However it, like others, is suffering in the current recessionary climate.

8.   In the current climate the referendum has created a dangerous precedent.

9.   In the current climate, any smooth and unambiguous unity of theory is likely to arouse suspicion.