• Before 2000, the previous four presidential contests were marked by economic or political instability, or both.

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  • Traits on offer included some which a pilot study indicated people associate with a sense of psychological stability (such as being trustworthy or reliable), some that are associated with psychological instability (being spontaneous or adventurous, for example) and some with no real relevance to instability or stability (like being loving or funny).

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  • Today it is widely perceived as a medical problem, almost exclusively the result of mental or emotional instability.

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  • We continue to disagree with the U.S. slowdown forecasts based on rate hikes, expensive energy, a consumer slump, or broad instability related to a housing slowdown.

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  • Her career or higher income helps inspire me to do better myself, not bring about instability or unhappiness.

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  • Or credit tightening in China, political instability in Turkey or inflation in Brazil.

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  • Political instability or uncertainty in the euro-zone's third-largest economy will have negative systemic consequences for everyone else.

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  • Or perhaps political instability, a perennial wild card, will resurface and skew the economics of the industry once again.

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  • And, given that it's just slightly more compact width-wise than the GNote II, the G Pro actually feels better in the hand and doesn't confer a sense of instability or slipperiness so often encountered with Samsung's same-sized smartphone.

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  • But in the days and the months ahead, the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan will need to work together to prevent violence and ensure that any isolated incidents do not cause wider instability or threaten a peaceful future for the citizens of these new nations.

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  • Moreover, providing liquidity to financial institutions does not address directly instability or declining credit availability in critical nonbank markets, such as the commercial paper market or the market for asset-backed securities, both of which normally play major roles in the extension of credit in the United States.

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  • And unless or until that happens, instability is actually going to increase.

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  • What you would hear here is eight bright young people who are a generation or two removed from political instability and grinding poverty.

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  • Obama gave a major speech Thursday in which he said al-Qaida is "on the path to defeat" and he's signaling that he's reluctant to commit troops overseas to conflicts like Syria or other countries struggling with instability in the uncertain aftermath of the Arab Spring.

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  • Once, when there was instability in faraway regions or countries, we had a choice - to become involved or not.

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  • The central argument of the report is that economic development is imperiled, or even undermined, by political instability and conflict.

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  • The status quo (little consolidation) helps to prevent social instability that could result from closure or merger of less efficient players.

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  • If the car is anything other than that, if it suffers from any measure of instability at the rear under braking or into the corner, then he is not good at improvising a different style.

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  • After agonising whether it was worse to move my children to be with their father more than me, or to risk them being affected by my instability on bad days, I concluded that weekends would work best for us all.

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  • It is easy to imagine the United States wanting to counter instability in the neighbourhood with a military or intelligence presence.

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  • The fear is that a political instability could lead to another round of elections or weakening of the austerity measures that the country has promised to its European partners.

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  • Both countries are located thousands of miles away from the United States but still the U.S. government recognizes that a situation of anarchy or Taliban rule in both countries would lead to regional instability.

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  • The prime minister said all Europe's economies, whether in the euro or not, needed a swift resolution of the current instability, and the single currency area as a whole needed to act to demonstrate it could "live within its means".

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  • Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder that presents with recurrent episodes of mood instability of feeling 'high' (mania or hypomania) and 'low' (depression).

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  • Neither leading party in Bulgaria's election garnered a strong mandate to govern or build a lasting coalition, an outcome likely to prolong political instability in the EU's poorest country.

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  • Anarchy in Afghanistan, or a Taliban restoration, would leave it prey to permanent cross-border instability.

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  • Following the instability of the 1940s, all of the established foreign companies left China or moved to Hong Kong.

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  • Parts of Africa, Asia and South America risk long term instability as there is evidence of children moving from one armed group to another, or becoming part of criminal gangs.

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  • The result of this instability is that people make bad decisions, like selling when the market is down, or speculating on alternative investments that they perceive to be a safe-haven.

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  • Instability in Afghanistan and the West's distrust of Iran make foreign investment in a southern or south-eastern gas pipeline unlikely.

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