Dubai's stable politics and business-friendly culture, along with rampant property speculation, helped fuel growth of as much as 13% in the years before it came to a screeching halt in 2009.

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Her world revolved around the stable datum of her Polish-Catholic culture.

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Stable agricultural communities are the prerequisite for the development of advanced culture and any kind of large-scale human endeavor, right?

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He said that Labour's ambition for a second term was to entrench a long-term culture of stability in the economy, with low inflation and stable growth the priority.

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The only states that have successfully replaced it since then have been the city states of Venice, Florence and elsewhere, which produced great riches and even the Renaissance of art, science, humanism and culture of the 15th century, but never achieved a set of stable, respected, still-less national institutions.

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