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When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

My coverage of events at the Vitality Stadium has been temporarily disabled by the inclemency of the weather.

A newspaper article from 1862 describes how first class passengers would reach the Imperial Hotel: "On alighting from the railway carriage at the station the intending visitor will be directed to a covered way leading from the platform to the hotel. Unpleasant exposure to wind, rain, or other inclemency of weather will thus be prevented."

From BBC

“As a dad I want him to be rescued immediately but we can’t forget about the inclemency of the weather. And the foreign help just doesn’t come from one day to the next,” he said.

However, Morrissey concedes that the "full-on" humidity in Atlanta is "brutal", with "snakes and tics that bury themselves into you" - quite a contrast to shooting in Manchester where the weather has a different sort of inclemency.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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