chronic instability

collocation in English

meaningsofchronicandinstability

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chronic
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɒn.ɪk/us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪk/
(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a ...
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instability
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪn.stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/ˌɪn.stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
uncertainty caused by the possibility of a sudden change in the ...
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(Definition ofchronicandinstabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofchronic instability

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Where major ruling parties are incohesive and fluid, governments tend to experiencechronicinstabilityand frequent cabinet reshuffles.
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When it is achieved, it will be a powerful factor in ending the presentchronicinstability.
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The result is continuing inflation andchronicinstabilityin our balance of payments.
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Part of the problem was thechronicinstabilityof the bus network in the free market environment.
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The first is thechronicinstabilityof the aircraft programme over the years, and particularly over the last two and a half years.
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However, the time has been one of market instability—andchronicinstabilityat that.
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It is a country that has knownchronicinstabilityfor many years and that tried to take the road towards democracy at the beginning of the 1990s.
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Generational and political differences among officers and a scarcity of resources for the military led tochronicinstabilitythat culminated in military coups.
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Mounting nationalist sympathies led tochronicinstabilityin government.
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Thechronicinstabilityof the years after his reign undid many of his accomplishments and developed into a crisis that the country never recovered from.
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His six siblings also lived in and out of public homes and foster care throughout their early years due to their parents'chronicinstabilityand poverty.
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