Sentence examples for veneer of stability from inspiring English sources
Beneath a veneer of stability, family relationships may actually have changed very little.
But beneath the veneer of stability and consensus, the House of Saud is facing problems that neither the princes nor the international community are paying much attention to.
That veneer of stability — broken only rarely, for instance right after Lehman collapsed in 2008 — is one feature that can make investors complacent.
But that is a riskier, more fraught policy in Damascus because it is such a symbolic prize and the government has tried to use the veneer of stability there to project the impression of nationwide control.
For her and others aboard the boat, the end of the war, celebrated so rapturously by the government, has brought little improvement to their lives – rather, the victory over the LTTE has been used by the government to project a veneer of stability to other countries, Australia included.
The question is whether this will lead to greater political openness, an authoritarian clampdown to restore the veneer of stability, or social turmoil — all possibilities that could have hard-to-predict consequences for the country's economic expansion, and for the world's.
The mounting protests threaten not only to overturn a close United States ally in the fight against terrorism but also to pull back the veneer of tranquil stability that draws legions of Western tourists to Tunisia's coastal resorts.
BEIJING — Few nations today stand as more of a challenge to the democratic model of governance than China, where an 89-year-old Communist Party has managed to quash political movements while creating a roaring, quasi-market economy and enforcing a veneer of social stability.
Predictability under a veneer of democracy has given three decades of stability to the most populous and politically pivotal Arab state.
The veneer of due process.
