1.   While recycling dominated economic discussions, developments elsewhere were hardly comforting.

2.   All this splitting of legal hairs is hardly comforting to the parent of a child shot by a rampaging student.

3.   But his understanding of democracy is hardly comforting.

4.   Hardly comforting words to this GI mom.

5.   That is hardly comforting to beleaguered drivers.

6.   The result is hardly comforting for anyone favoring civilian or even central control over a military so divided, corrupted and fief-like.

7.   To be sure, the recent history of big media mergers is hardly comforting for shareholders in either AOL or Time Warner.

8.   But if some of these investments and spending look questionable, it is hardly comforting to the real shareholders -- the workers.

9.   While he did not detail the cases currently under investigation, the disclosure is hardly comforting.

10.   Hardly comforting words for long-suffering Welsh supporters, yet pragmatic in view of the current health of Welsh rugby.