Sentence examples for world instability from inspiring English sources

Instead of trying to beat back the New World instability of the Internet with an old playbook, American officials should embrace it.

Alas, it's all too likely that today's oil price plunge will set the stage for tomorrow's oil price surge, in a repeat of a cycle that has been a major source of world instability these past three decades.

She's considering selling her BU shares for fear of plummeting prices caused by terrorist attacks or world instability.

What began as a local conflict has become a major source of regional and even world instability.

National security: The nation's top-ranking defense and intelligence officials have warned for years that climate change multiplies the threats of terrorism, conflicts and world instability.

"We still have a large number of miserable, hungry people," Borlaug told an audience in Asia in 2006, "and this contributes to world instability.

Nor is it premised merely on fears in highly developed nations of new immigrants or of poor regions becoming so volatile as to pull the rest of the world into instability.

In recent years they have dealt with three international initiatives against them, starting with the OECD's campaign against harmful tax practices, and then with the Financial Stability Forum's investigation in 1999 into whether they contribute to world financial instability.

Noting that he had recently enjoyed a "period of reflection, enforced reflection," he argued that most of the problems facing the world — financial instability, recessions, trade disputes, environmental degradation — "cannot be addressed on an individual basis and can only be resolved by global coördination".

Although petroleum revenues continued to be a major source of income for Iran in the 1970s, world monetary instability and fluctuations in Western oil consumption seriously threatened the country's economy, which had been rapidly expanding since the early 1950s and was still directed in large part toward high-cost projects and programs.

The emergencies and extravaganzas mean the business is a rough-and-ready index of, variously, economic growth in the developing world, global instability and big-time fun.To judge by the company's fortunes since Rupert Soames took over as chief executive a decade ago, all three are on the up.