And in juggling his cabinet and choosing hard, stability-oriented measures to keep Spain's finances afloat, Mr. Zapatero (after regular socialism-solves-everything sound bites over six years in power) hardly seemed to challenge the idea that the European left has failed to come up with anything resembling a novel strategy to turn the economic switch back to full speed.
So I want to explain to you today the policy we - and the Bank of England - will continue to pursue to ensure the British economy entrenches our new won and hard won stability and continues to grow – ensuring we take no risks with inflation or stability generally, or with the fiscal position".
If you push too hard the stability control steps in, thankfully, like an electronic nanny.
A new won and hard won stability which Britain must not take for granted but must entrench.
Such is our determination to lock in our hard won stability that looking forward we can, and will, take nothing for granted.
While shaking it up worked for O'Neill, Ukraine have been searching hard for stability, even outside the country's political situation.
And building on our hard won stability, our mission now and for the years ahead is to make Britain the dynamic and competitive enterprise economy we all want it to be".
April 21 2004, remarks at the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference: "Now, by working together, we can see a Britain that has a new found and hard won stability with: the lowest inflation for thirty years; and the lowest interest rates for forty years; the lowest unemployment for a generation; and a Britain that is seen today as the most stable of all the major economies.
"We've just got to roll our sleeves up and work hard and stability is the biggest thing.
"Blackburn need to look very hard into stability, they need to look at communication with the fans and they need to look very hard into how they can invest in personnel, look medium term.
But the country does risk losing its hard-won stability.
