Instability Sentence Examples

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  • Think of the things she would miss and the instability of having no parents.

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  • A certain instability of character is revealed by the fact that he took up arms against Ramiro, having repented of his renunciation of the world.

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  • The protoplasm is in a condition of instability and is continually breaking down to a certain extent, giving rise to various substances of different degrees of complexity, some of which are again built up by it into its own substances, and others, more simple in composition, are given off.

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  • The instability hasn't impacted his finances at all.

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  • Starting from a widely diffused nebula, more or less uniform, we find that, in consequence of gravitational instability, it will tend to condense about a number of nuclei.

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  • Everything was vacillating and uncertain; and the general instability was reflected even in foreign affairs, now that the master-hand of Gustavus III.

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  • Had it not been for the political instability of the country, the effects of the diminution of expenditure on military and naval preparations would have effected a rapid improvement in its financial position.

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  • But The Truth Is That A Complete Solution Of The Statical Problem For All Forms Up To That At Which Instability Sets In, Would Not Suffice For The Present Purpose.

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  • This instability is shown in congressional and local rather than in general state elections.

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  • To re-open the Brussels ceiling now would be to create further instability in an already complex negotiation.

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  • Viking raids on the Welsh coast began in the mid 9th century, and the 10th century was characterized by dynastic instability.

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  • Structural problems in the labor market can play a less obvious, but nonetheless important role in macroeconomic instability.

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  • We are seeking to unravel the relationship between DNA damage, apoptosis and the genomic instability of cancer.

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  • Both waves propagate at the same speed and at the right wavelength for baroclinic instability to occur.

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  • In addition, Roundup Ready soybean itself should be reassessed in light of new scientific evidence raising questions about transgenic instability.

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  • The cells from the time point week 6 to week 8 were assessed for microsatellite instability with selected markers.

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  • If there is detrusor instability, inappropriate increases in bladder pressure will be observed.

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  • Most people with ankle instability will not need an operation.

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  • In young girls with recurrent infections, daytime urgency and wetting is not infrequently associated due to bladder instability.

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  • Mechanical instability is abnormal movement of the talus within the ankle mortise, usually demonstrated on stress radiography.

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  • How would the US respond to the considerable instability caused by a massive outflow of capital?

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  • A rock revetment was constructed in 1992 in an attempt to address the basic cause of slope instability, i.e. basal wave erosion.

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  • And developing nations that emphasize greater food self-reliance can retain precious foreign exchange and avoid the instability of international markets.

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  • The instability may also be noticed on external rotatory movements which cause posterior subluxation of the lateral tibial plateau.

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  • The dominant process is baroclinic instability which owes its existence to strong meridional temperature gradients.

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  • Attempts to keep up using old style trimmers can lead to bottle instability, says BMC.

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  • The structural instability of transgenic DNA its tendency to break and rejoin - is now undeniable.

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  • So great was Bismarcks distrust of Italian parliamentary instability, his doubts of Italian capacity for offensive warfare and his fear of the Francophil tendencies of Depretis, that fof many weeks the Italian ambassador at Berlin was unable te obtain audience of the chancellor.

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  • But the transgression is enough to explain the disfavour into which the Maccabees seem to fall in the judgment of later Judaism, as, in that judgment, it is enough to account for the instability of their dynasty.

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  • The education he received was comprehensive but unsystematic, and the want of definiteness in this early training doubtless tended to aggravate the peculiar instability of character which troubled Hamann's after life.

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  • This movement was termed posterolateral rotatory instability by Hughston et al.

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  • Also the system of Government and opposition and septennial elections almost ensured instability unless the Government had a huge majority.

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  • The concept of instability of a basic state is first introduced using models which yield simple ordinary differential equations.

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  • Recent evidence suggests that defects in DNA maintenance pathways and telomere dysfunction promote genomic instability and drives development of the disease.

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  • Throughout the first half of the 1990s, Bulgaria was wracked by political instability and strikes.

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  • It's been long proven that in times of great financial instability at home and abroad, precious metals usually remain quite stable.

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  • Inspect chair backs for instability by sitting and leaning against them and also from pushing up and down on them from behind.

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  • This is a sedative and can help you with many of your stress symptoms such as headaches, heart palpitations, insomnia, aches and pains and emotional instability.

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  • Borderline personality disorder (BPD)-A pattern of behavior characterized by impulsive acts, intense but chaotic relationships with others, identity problems, and emotional instability.

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  • A particular type of involuntary movement, coupled with emotional instability, occurs in about 10 percent of all RF patients.

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  • Short attention span, poor eye contact, delayed and disordered speech and language, emotional instability, and unusual hand mannerisms (hand flapping or hand biting) are also seen frequently.

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  • Symptoms include instability or obvious dislocation of a joint, pain, swelling, and weakness.

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  • With the instability of Florida’s housing market, this worksheet will guide you through the mortgage process.

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  • It is possible to meet people with malicious intentions over the Internet, though you can sometimes detect a degree of such instability through email correspondence.

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  • The only downside to eBay is the instability of stock--you never know what they'll have available because it's dependent on what people have in their throw-out pile at home.

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  • This sensation causes instability leading to activation of the muscles.

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  • This set the wheels in motion, and the concept of a shoe that replicates the instability of natural surfaces came to fruition.

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  • Special balance pods are worked into the shoe's design to provide a natural instability to help tone and sculpt the legs.

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  • Hypertension, thyroid problems, diabetes, and emotional instability are some of the conditions that would make it unsafe for a patient to use this drug.

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  • In fact, if you have a tendency toward shoulder instability, you might even consider performing rotator cuff injury exercises as a preventative measure.

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  • Missing screws, loose joints and instability are all signs that the equipment is in poor condition and will fall apart soon.

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  • Buffy's deaths and resurrection created an instability in the laws of magic binding the Slayer abilities.

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  • Political geography takes account of the partition of the earth amongst organized communities, dealing with the relation of races to regions, and of nations to countries, and considering the conditions of territorial equilibrium and instability.

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  • The Italian war of 1859 had The revealed its essential instability.

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  • In his religious policy Francis showed the same instability.

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  • These are cleverly employed in order to heighten the impression of its instability.

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  • When the velocity of the jet is gradually increased there is a certain range of velocity for which the jet is unstable, so that any deviation from the straight rush-out tends to increase as the jet moves up. If then the jet is just on the point of instability, and is subjected as its base to alternations of motion, the sinuosities impressed on the jet become larger and larger as it flows out, and the flame is as it were folded on itself.

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  • Above all he earned the contempt of Englishmen and foreigners alike by the instability of his purpose.

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  • The main point to observe in this connexion is that large tracts of land in many parts of the world were at a critical level as regards the sea, a condition highly favourable to frequent extensive incursions of marine waters over the low-lying areas in a period of extreme crustal instability.

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  • Dialectic is, therefore, a dislocating power; it shakes the solid structures of material thought, and exhibits the instability latent in such conceptions of the world.

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  • The driving circle is also much too small, so that a very slight mechanical freedom of the screw in the teeth involves a large angular freedom of the telescope in right ascension, while its position at the lower end of a too weak polar axis tends to create instability from torsion of that axis.

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  • Hence the maximum instability occurs when the wave-length of disturbance is about half as great again as that at which instability first commences.

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  • The pitch of the note, though not absolutely definite, cannot differ much from that which corresponds to the division of the jet into wave-lengths of maximum instability; and, in fact, Savart found that the frequency was directly as the square root of the head, inversely as the diameter of the orifice, and independent of the nature of the fluid - laws which follow immediately from Plateau's theory.

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  • If we suppose that upon the whole the air cannot be removed, so that the mean distance between the opposed surfaces remains constant, the electric attractions tend to produce an instability whereby the smaller intervals are diminished while the larger are increased.

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  • Instability, again, which lies at the root of Spencer's definition "continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations" is displayed by living matter in very varying degrees from the apparent absolute quiescence of frozen seeds to the activity of the central nervous system, whilst there is a similar range amongst inorganic substances.

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  • The confines of the sun are visibly in a state of turmoil, for which a sufficient cause can be assigned in the relative readiness with which the outer portions part with heat to space, and so condensing produce a state of static instability, so that the outer surface of the sun in place of being fixed is continually circulating, portions at high temperatures rising rapidly from the depths to positions where they will part rapidly with their heat, and then, whether perceived or not, descending again.

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  • The persecutions under Aurelian and Diocletian almost succeeded in accomplishing the former; the Christian churches were saved by the instability of the existing authorities, by military anarchy and by the incursions of the barbarians.

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  • The extreme instability of monarchical government showed itself afresh after Henry IV.s death.

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  • Amidst this extraordinary instability, when everything was at the mercy of a secret thought of the master, the mistress alone held lasting sway; in a reign of all-pervading satiety and tedium, she managed to remain indispensable and bewitching to the day of her death.

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  • Outcome of the modified Brostrom procedure for chronic lateral ankle instability using suture anchors.

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  • Thermal instability of the compounds with large anions is a function of the polarizing power of the cation.

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  • Lesser tuberosity fractures Acute injuries in athletes should be surgically repaired, to restore the subscapularis tendon and anterior capsule preventing shoulder instability.

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  • Serious financial instability could ensue as a result of uncertainty over the role of the ECB versus individual national central banks.

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  • Look for instability of the joint, leg length inequality, marked valgus or varus deformity.

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  • Factors include disrepair, instability, dampness, bathroom and kitchen facilities, water supply, heating, lighting, ventilation and drainage.

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  • All working party members should be aware of, or be informed of, the instability of ` skip dumpers ' .

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  • Glenoid rim Up to half the patients with glenohumeral instability have an osseous avulsion of the glenoid rim Up to half the patients with glenohumeral instability have an osseous avulsion of the glenoid rim, a bony Bankart lesion.

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  • It is possible also that gas release and earthquake activity may have acted together to induce sea floor instability.

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  • Perry says it would take disruption of Persian Gulf supplies to cause instability in the oil market.

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  • Chromosomal instability is thought to occur in 85 per cent of all colorectal cancer cases.

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  • Dissolution, and finally reaches the statement of the Law of Evolution as" an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from a an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."This process of evolution is due to" the instability of the homogeneous,"the" multiplication of effects "and their" segregation,"continuing until it ceases in complete" equilibration."Sooner or later, however, the reverse process of Dissolution, with its absorption of motion and disintegration of matter, which indeed has always been going on to some extent, must prevail, and these oscillations of the cosmic process will continue without end.

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  • Despite the instability, members cling to these alliances because they can't imagine their lives without them.

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  • Extreme joint instability and scoliosis may limit a person's mobility.

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  • However, the lack of a second parent often has a less negative impact on children than family instability, lack of structure, and inconsistent enforcement of parental standards.

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  • The problem may appear as clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.

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  • Congenital hip dysplasia is a condition of abnormal development of the hip, resulting in hip joint instability and potential dislocation of the thigh bone from the socket in the pelvis.

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  • If symptoms are present with a noted increase in abduction, the test is considered positive for hip joint instability.

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  • Should nervousness, agitation, irritability, mood instability, or sleeplessness emerge or worsen during treatment with SSRIs, parents should obtain a prompt evaluation by their doctor.

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  • Secure styles show a child consistently connected to the primary caregiver, with a firmly established sense of trust and a nurturing response; however, insecure styles of attachment have features of instability.

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  • This is due in large part to the political instability the country has suffered since it gained independence from England in 1960.

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  • Due to ongoing political instability, your safety while working in Nigeria can be a concern.

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  • B aeyer has suggested that his hypothesis may also be applied to explain the instability of acetylene and its derivatives, and the still greater instability of the polyacetylene compounds.

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  • Augustus set himself against the undue multiplication of manumissions, probably considering the rapid succession of new citizens a source of social instability, and recommended a similar policy to his successor.

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  • An effect of the greater tide-generating force will also be instability of the liquid magmas underlying volcanic areas, leading to violent eruptions and earthquakes.

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  • The tragedians used her story to point the moral of the instability of human happiness; Niobe became the representative of human nature, liable to pride in prosperity and forgetfulness of the respect and submission due to the gods.

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  • Cellulose sulphates are one, and possibly the main, cause of instability in guncotton, and it is highly desirable that they should be completely hydrolysed and removed in the washing process.

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  • He had various proofs of the instability of his hold on the king during 1747 and in 1748.

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  • A certain number of the most promising of these, from the purely optical point of view, had unfortunately to be abandoned for practical use owing to their chemical instability, and the problem of Fraunhofer, viz.

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  • Spencer appeals alternately to the" instability of the homogeneous "and the impossibility of complete equilibration to keep up the cosmic see-saw, but he can do so only by confining himself to a part of the universe.

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  • On both sides in Mexico there was an element consisting of honest doctrinaires; but rival military leaders exploited the struggles in their own interest, sometimes taking each side successively; and the instability was intensified by the extreme poverty of the peasantry, which made the soldiery reluctant to return to civil life, by the absence of a regular middle class, and by the concentration of wealth in a few hands, so that a revolutionary chief was generally sure both of money and of men.

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  • In wintertime, the cyclonic and anticyclonic areas are of increased frequency and intensity; and it is partly for this reason that many meteorologists have been disposed to regard them as chiefly driven by the irregular flow of the westerly winds, rather than as due to convectional instability, which should have a maximum effect in summer.

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  • The Pricke of Conscience is a long religious poem, in rhyming couplets, dealing with the beginning of man's life, the instability of the world, why death is to be dreaded, of doomsday, of the pains of hell, and the joys of heaven, the two latter subjects being treated with uncompromising realism.

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  • If the initial disturbances are small enough, that one is ultimately preponderant for which the measure of instability is greatest.

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  • Certain toxins resemble enzymes as regards their conditions of precipitation and relative instability, and the fact that in most cases a considerable period intervenes between the time of injection and the occurrence of symptoms has been adduced in support of the view that enzymes are present.

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  • The author contends that the existence of evil is best explained by assuming that God is confronted with Satan, who in the process of evolution interferes with the divine designs, an interference which the instability of such an evolving process makes not incredible.

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  • Frederick II., conscious of the instability of his French ally, was now eager to contract an offensive alliance with Russia; and the first step to its realization was the overthrow of Bestuzhev, "upon whom," he wrote to his minister Axel von Mardefeld, "the fate of Prussia and my own house depends."

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  • Unlike Australia, its geological structure is unusually varied, and owing to its instability, it includes, for its size, an unusually complete series of marine sedimentary rocks.

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  • They have, however, never been a stable source of revenue, even during periods when the tariff was constant; and compared with th steady returns shown by the selected articles of the British tariff list this instability has been most extraordinary.

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  • The instability of Charles II., who sold himself to Louis by the treaty of Dover (1670), speedily rendered it of no effect, and left the the United Provinces and by several German states.

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  • This explains a good deal of the possible instability; and, from a practical point of view, it coincides with the fact that such a large amount of energy can be stored in our most intense explosives such as dynamite, the explanation being that hydrogen is attached to carbon distant from oxygen in the same molecule, and that only the characteristic resistance of the carbon linkage prevents the hydrogen from burning, which is the main occurrence in the explosion of dynamite.

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  • Since the only cause for these convection currents is the statical instability produced by radiation, and the rapid stifling of radiations within the body produces there a temperature gradient falling very slowly, they would be for the most part extremely slight.

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  • He had found out the instability of the coalition and the power of France.

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  • When the strong magnetizing field is gradually diminished to zero and then reversed, the needles pass from one stable position of rest to another through a condition of instability; and if the field is once more reversed, so that the cycle is completed, the needles again pass through a condition of instability before a position of stable equilibrium is regained.

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  • The last apparent anomaly, and the last threat of instability, thus disappeared from the solar system.

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  • But Griffenfeldt's difficulties, always serious, were increased by the instability of the European situation, depending as it did on the ambition of Louis XIV.

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  • The Magnitude Of A Drop Delivered From A Tube, Even When The Formation Up To The Phase Of Instability Is Infinitely Slow, Cannot Be Calculated A Priori.

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  • The degree of instability, as measured by q, is not to be determined from statical considerations only; otherwise there would be no limit to the increasing efficiency of the longer wavelengths.

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  • Spencer's " instability of the homogeneous " is perhaps an attempt to perform the impossible (First Principles, chap. xix.).

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  • The capillary tension endeavours to contract the surface of the fluid; so that the stability, or instability, of the cylindrical form of equilibrium depends upon whether the surface (enclosing a given volume) be greater or less respectively after the displacement than before.

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