• He has also made good on his promise to leave Iraq, even if the place is hardly in a stable state.

    ECONOMIST: Mitt Romney abroad

  • The more that ecosystems become degraded, the UN says, the greater the risk that they will be pushed "over the edge" into a new stable state of much less utility to humankind.

    BBC: Nature loss 'to damage economies'

  • Perhaps the ecosystem here hasn't been pushed into an alternate stable state - but in other parts of the world it may still be happening, with jellyfish ruling where fish predators formerly reigned.

    BBC: Nature's spring: Cod bounce back

  • Although its war in Iraq serves their goal of preventing a post-Saddam Iraq from developing into a coherent, multi-ethnic, stable state governed by the rule of law, al-Qaida is not an Iranian (or Syrian) organization.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where America and Iraq converge

  • In a recent paper in Ecosystems, Robert Steneck and his colleagues at the University of Maine report that 4, 500 years of archaeological data from village middens along the coast, and also more recent fishing records, suggest that fishing pressures may have pushed the ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine into a new, less-stable state.

    ECONOMIST: Lobsters in Maine

  • The President also looks forward to discussing upcoming elections in Georgia and the reforms that will ensure Georgia's continuing transformation into a vibrant and stable democratic state.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And though perhaps the most domestically stable Gulf state, that is something that would interest Qatar at a time when the region has seen recent unrest and Gulf nations are spending lavishly to ensure their people are happy.

    BBC: Qatar turns to football for fame and fans

  • Russia is poor enough and has stable enough state finances, it has by a very wide margin the smallest sovereign debt burden of any large country, that a government that is truly committed to achieving 6% GDP growth should be able to achieve that goal, at least for a good 5 or 6 years.

    FORBES: Putin Pledges Pro-Growth Tax Cuts: Or, Why Today's Russia is Far More Flexible Than the Soviet Union

  • Bank of Cyprus and Laiki were seen as more financially stable than the state.

    WSJ: Raymond Zhong: Reflections on the Revolution in Cyprus

  • Pakistanis will support action against the militants if their politicians and generals explain that their country is now fighting to restore Pakistan to its rightful place as a stable, democratic state that is no longer the incubator of the most violent jihadist groups in the world.

    CNN: Commentary: Obama anti-terror plan could be doomed to fail

  • Second, let us accept, whatever our differences over the war, it is in all our interests and in the interests of the peaceful majority in the Muslim world that Iraq be helped to be a sovereign, independent, stable, democratic state, where there is religious tolerance, human rights and equality for all.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Blair's speech in Lisbon

  • At this point, Mr Bush turned briefly to the Israelis, pointing out that it was in their own security interests to support the emergence of a stable, peaceful Palestinian state.

    ECONOMIST: Mr Bush's conditions for progress towards peace

  • Hence, it is highly unlikely that an advanced sclerotic democracy such as the United States will be able to right itself and achieve a stable and efficient equilibrium state of freedom and prosperity.

    FORBES: The Myriad Infirmities of Democracy

  • That's because colleges and state governments offer stable employment--since they cannot or will not outsource jobs to India or China.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • At the very least, it seems unlikely they would support policies, such as the decimation of Israel now being pursued by the Bush administration in part in the hope that Saudi Arabia will play a moderating role in the region, helping to birth a peaceable Palestinian state and a stable, pro-U.S. Middle East.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A teaching moment

  • According to ICRA, the gross non performing assets ratios of state-run banks was stable at 2.4% for the first half of the fiscal year, while the same number for the State Bank of India Group rose to 4.3% from 4%.

    FORBES: Asset Quality Worsening At India Banks

  • Yet they point to the fact that enrolment of blacks and Latinos throughout the state system has remained stable since 1996.

    ECONOMIST: Affirmative action

  • In our state, physicians either decide to retire early or move to a state where premiums are more stable.

    FORBES: Head To Head: Small-Biz Health Care

  • The euro's success so far has suggested that a currency can be stable without the backing of a unitary state.

    ECONOMIST: The financial crisis has made the euro look more alluring

  • That is plenty of time for them to relax into their ground state, the most energetically stable condition they can be in.

    ECONOMIST: Are matter and antimatter truly opposites?

  • And I think if you look at them across the board, the state polls have been pretty stable for the past couple of weeks.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The animal reared and fell back while on its way to a racetrack stable -- a common occurrence in stable areas every year, according to a state racing board doctor.

    CNN: 'Luck' continues filming after third horse dies

  • But analysts see little hope of forming a stable coalition to lead the EU's poorest state.

    BBC: Main party in Bulgaria seeks to void election result

  • "The state plan president's role is very stable, " says Kenneth Goulet, president of commercial business and Guertin's boss.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr Putin's experiment does seem to have made the state a little stronger and quite a lot more stable, but not noticeably more efficient, and certainly no more accountable or transparent.

    ECONOMIST: Russia has changed since Soviet days, but not nearly enough

  • Another Chinese student from Boston University, Zhou Danling, was also injured in the bombing but was in stable condition after being treated at the Boston Medical Center, state media said on Wednesday.

    WSJ: China Mourns Boston Marathon Victim

  • Some German states had issued their own would-be stable currency: Baden's was secured on the revenue of state forests, Hanover's convertible into a given quantity of rye.

    ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: German hyperinflation

  • The People's Party, led by Andris Skele, a former prime minister, is now hoping to patch together a coalition with Latvia's Way, whose platform including support for a stable currency and the privatisation of the few firms that remain in state hands is virtually identical to its own.

    ECONOMIST: Latvia votes for Europe

  • In little over a decade, the microchip has replaced the oil derrick as the driving force behind the state's economy, making Texas far less dependent on stable commodity prices.

    ECONOMIST: Regional economies

  • "If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary, " says Andrew Small, a China expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American research institute.

    NPR: Eyeing Rich Bounty, China In Line For Afghan Role

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