The branch bent but did not break.

The branch broke under the weight of the snow.

It's a sharp axe, but the branch is not yielding.

Tom has a steady job.

Tom was killed when a tree limb fell on him.

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Tom has a steady job.

The branch began to bend as I climbed along it.

Russia needs a strong and stable Ukraine.

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In Berlin, the term for this is a Europe of stability and solidity.

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We must not delude ourselves that this situation is stable.

At home, a stable democracy based on the rule of law quickly emerged.

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Malaysia, a successful and stable moderate Muslim country, has put the issue just right. Rather than defending the truly heroic work of the UN, Malaysia's Government correctly called on the US to leave Iraq.

Malaysia, a successful and stable moderate Muslim country, has put the issue just right.

So, if inflation is low and stable, central banks cannot be blamed for low long term rates.

Under any plausible scenario, a restrained and stable Chinese foreign policy may become more difficult.

A strong and stable India, on the other hand, will always be a status quo power.

The absence of wars on the European continent and the relatively stable situation in the Middle East were proof of this.

Costa Rica is the region s most stable democracy, a place where peace, nature, and education are valued above all.

A stable currency and sound public finances are two sides of the same coin that s just how it is.

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Today the situation on the ground is more stable and secure thanks to progress made in combating terrorism, he said.

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of an era of mistrust and division, and opened the way for cooperation aimed at a peaceful and stable Europe.

If those agreements have widespread acceptance and mutual consistency, the result will be a stable international monetary system.

The most stable form of financing, foreign direct investment, has the additional benefit of bringing in new technologies and methods.

Stable economic policy and rapid growth, in turn, enabled Blair s government to pour extra money into education and the National Health Service.

But for Haiti, it is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, and it is even less stable, with a history of more than two hundred coups since independence.

There are three prominent hypotheses on nonbaryonic dark matter, called cold dark matter (CDM), warm dark matter (WDM), and hot dark matter (HDM) some combination of these is also possible.

China has now rejoined the world community as a cooperative, stable, and powerful sovereign nation, which will be one of the leading trading countries in the years ahead.

It seems a safe bet that the stable politics of the post WWII era owe a great deal to the coexistence of rapidly growing, dynamic market economies and social democratic policies.

Each time you reach beyond the next degree of contacts, you have access to three more people, like a tree that branches out three times per node, so you can look beyond your closest circles.

Arcelor, one of the oldest steel manufacturers in the world, depends very little on the highly speculative world market for raw steel, and its workforce is (on average) highly qualified and stable.

A return to that original dynamic would be good for everyone, from creditor countries (which would benefit from a more stable global system) to borrowers (whose economies would enjoy faster growth and poverty reduction).

On one side of the border is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, a place where 56 of the population survives on less than one dollar a day. On the other side of the island stands a stable democracy with a promising outlook for a reasonably prosperous future.