Collocations withinstability
These are words often used in combination withinstability.
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chronic instability
Where major ruling parties are incohesive and fluid, governments tend to experience chronic instability and frequent cabinet reshuffles.
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dynamic instability
These difficulties can be overcome through consistently defining the structure of the continuous medium and the characteristics of dynamic instability of motion of particles.
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economic instability
The children of the daughters grew up in an era of increased western influence and consumerism but also economic instability.
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emotional instability
The degree of disorder, it is proposed, is a function of rapidity of ovarian decline, susceptibility of the autonomic nervous system and pre-existing emotional instability.
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financial instability
So far as financial instability was concerned, the main need was for regulation of capital movements.
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global instability
These studies focus on local instability however, whereas we have focused on global instability.
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gravitational instability
The effects of various dampings on the threshold of the gravitational instability can be deduced by numerical solutions of (26) and (27).
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great instability
In addition, this was a period which, especially until the end of the 1830s, was characterised by great instability.
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inherent instability
It adapted itself to inherent instability and building fluctuations by an immense number of organizational permutations fitting themselves to a great variety of circumstances.
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internal instability
The system cannot get absolute equilibrium between the forces as well, because many accidental changes at the bifurcation point persistently generate internal instability.
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mental instability
Nevertheless, the term has come to be associated with permanent mental instability.
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period of instability
Mariscal's data suggest a period of instability in gender assignment when the child begins to use determiners and adjectives productively.
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political instability
He manoeuvred adroitly throughout to secure and improve his position in an era of political instability.
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potential instability
In condoning such measures, the ministry avoided potential instability in the system.
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regional instability
These include whether a proposed transfer would be likely to increase tension in the region or contribute to regional instability.
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social instability
Other contemporary analysts also stress the importance of focusing on the marginalised as a source of social instability.
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source of instability
Their findings, however, do not condition upon an economic model, and hence cannot isolate the source of instability to be within the economy.
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structural instability
Their structural instability suggests that they are broken by most perturbations of the steady basic flow in which they arise.
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