General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. occupying force decided Hirohito would be useful alive, on the throne and with his reputation intact in maintaining stability as Japan came to terms with living under the control of its enemy.

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South Africa's stability, some argue, depends on the party staying intact.

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This decade's reform drive, impressive as it has sometimes been, has left intact practices that keep unemployment high and threaten the Nordics' hard-won budgetary stability.

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And we're going to keep working for a Syria that is free from Assad's tyranny, that is intact and inclusive of all ethnic and religious groups, and that's a source of stability, not extremism, because it's in the profound interest of all our nations, especially Turkey.

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