The domestic dominance of Lyon, a club that previously had limited success playing in a provincial French city, found stability not with short-term coaches, but with a long-term sporting director, Bernard Lacombe.
The model implicitly assumed stability of intra-provincial flows by incorporating a single (controllable) variable for addition to the workforce supply: the graduation rate.
The provincial officials "created the basic conditions for stability and harmony" in Wukan, the newspaper said.
Over and over, however, the article places all the chips for coherence, stability and political order on the provincial elections scheduled for this October.
Fears of tribal and provincial rivalries and looted arms depots threaten internal and regional stability.
But those plans, later tempered by provincial leaders, now seem derailed as officials are focused on maintaining social stability.
Just think about what that does for perceptions of (in)stability in months leading up to Afghanistan's Presidential and provincial elections.
Neglecting a lifeline as vital as agriculture has been dangerous for stability in Afghanistan, as people are unable to feed themselves, several provincial governors said in interviews.
Gen. Khalilullah Ziayee, the provincial police chief, said they were abducted "by the enemies of peace and stability in the country," the government's catch-all term for insurgents.
Mr. Goran, who has led the boycott of the provincial council, blames the governor and his party for the increasing bitterness, saying stability in Nineveh will come only with respect for minority parties, like his.
These arrangements represent a form of "conditional autonomy" that allows provincial leaders to take whatever measures they feel appropriate to promote growth and maintain political stability as long as the legitimacy of the regime is not threatened.
