The phrase "a stable functioning" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to describe a system or process that operates reliably and consistently.
Example: "The project requires a stable functioning of all components to ensure success."
Alternatives: "a stable operation" or "a reliable performance".
Although these successes are important, they will not transform Yemen into a stable, functioning nation.
In both places, the long-term U.S. goal is to leave behind a stable, functioning state that is accepted as legitimate by its citizens and is capable of preventing terrorist groups from operating domestically or abroad.
Because of this, criteria and indicators have to be developed describing the necessary conditions of technologies to come into a stable functioning.
Despite the offensiveness of Suharto's painless exit, Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic nation, has emerged as a relatively stable, functioning democracy.
Unilineal kinship systems were seen by British anthropologists of this period as providing a basis for the stable functioning of societies in the absence of state institutions.
Epistasis was suggested to contribute to viral robustness, the ability of a virus to maintain stable functioning despite genetic and environmental perturbations [1], [25].
The reason for modelling on the log cumulative excess hazard scale instead of the log excess hazard scale is because the log cumulative excess hazard is a relatively stable function, and it is easier to capture its shape.
We calculate the mean time of the standard operation for a flexural nanotube with likely noise-induced buckling and analyze the mean time of the stable functioning for a gyroscope subjected to random and dissipation torques.
Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, also called for Italy to swiftly form a "stable and functioning government," stressing its importance for the rest of Europe.
First, the country is a stable and functioning democracy, as shown by the smooth transfer of power after last autumn's presidential and parliamentary elections.
Perhaps if we hadn't pulled so many troops and so much in the way of resources out of Afghanistan prematurely (before even capturing or killing Osama bin Laden) in order to charge into Iraq, we'd be further along toward rebuilding a stable, economically functioning nation in Afghanistan.
