This was an especially rapid change in what had appeared as a reasonably stable system.

IS the international economic system more stable than it looks?

Golf, they may say, presumes a stable economic and political system.

Robinson figures if he can persuade most of us to come along, he'll have a stable system.

This approach makes the system extremely stable, but quite slow.

Finally, one cannot say that Europe has a proper and stable financial system.

The process of building a stable political system must continue.

First and foremost, Russia needs a credible, stable political system.

He added: "No stable system of government can be established unless it is popular."

Yet it is a stable and robust system distributed as an open source program.