This was relatively reassuring stability coming out of the "omnishambles" period in 2012, but increasingly frustrating in recent months as strengthening economic recovery has failed to convert into improved poll numbers.
Now the Rugby Football League is back in the black, providing a reassuring stability that underpinned a successful application for almost £30m of UK Sport funding last year, mostly for grassroots development that should consolidate the genuine national expansion of the game at amateur levels through the summer Conference.
The late-day decline echoed other final-hour moves in the market in recent weeks, indicating to investors that the combination of forced selling, profit taking and fear that has kept the market on edge since the start of the financial crisis had not yet resolved into a more reassuring stability.
Salman's first public remarks as monarch, even before Abdullah's burial, were designed to send a bland and reassuring message of stability.
These familiar political ceremonies broadcast a reassuring continuity and stability even as candidates promise change, and partisans warn of disaster if they lose.
The bank had a fine partners' room, Mount writes, "where the partners sat opposite each other at huge mahogany desks smoking fat cigars although it was only nine o'clock in the morning … It was a scene of deeply reassuring affluence and stability". This was in the mid-1980s, the same decade in which the author also had a job advising Mrs Thatcher.
The bank had a fine partners' room, Mount writes, "where the partners sat opposite each other at huge mahogany desks smoking fat cigars although it was only nine o'clock in the morning … It was a scene of deeply reassuring affluence and stability".
But by naming Mr. Powell as his first cabinet choice and showcasing him alone, Mr. Bush sought to send several signals, reassuring allies of stability in foreign policy, and emphasizing to the black voters who had overwhelmingly voted against him in November that he intended to reach out.
"It's reassuring news for the stability of the company, for its shareholders and for its future".
The lack of a surprising estimate should be reassuring for maintaining financial stability, but the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned about a 1970s style shock.
But while the package was branded as an effort to "enhance regional stability" by reassuring Persian Gulf states of the United States' commitment to their security, the State Department broke its own longstanding protocol and used provocative, ethnically divisive language when announcing the deal.
