Yet over time it has proved to be the cause of immense pain and instability.
In the slowly intensifying austerity battle of recent years, DSPs man the front lines -- an army of gatekeepers between the world at large and a world of immense privation and instability.
The challenges involved in staging a vote in the largest country in Africa – in the absence of basic infrastructure, and amid widespread instability – are immense.
Coupled with the political instability, it has led to immense migration of Malians living in the north over the past year.
"If we don't succeed, the dangers to the E.U. of instability or extremism on our frontiers are immense".
Since assuming power in October 2012, Zeidan has proven himself a staunch Western ally in the war on terror, as well as someone willing to take immense domestic political risks to rid Libya of tribal instability.
With 20 million people displaced from their homes, the Pakistani authorities are girding themselves for an immense migration to the major cities, which they fear could sow further instability.
An analytical study of supercritical flow instability in two horizontal parallel channels is reported herein a topic that would be of immense value to new reactor designs that propose to use supercritical light water on the primary side.
It is a transition "marked by immense autonomy, freedom of choice, lack of obligations and focus on the self," a time also characterized by instability and experimentation, when "hopes and exhilaration recurrently run up against confusion and frustration" and when "ties to the social institutions of civil society, including church, are often weak".
"Taylor's trial has immense significance for people in the West African sub-region who suffered as a consequence of the violence and instability he allegedly fomented in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire," the organisation said.
