That is not a recipe for long term stability.

Humiliation is not a firm basis for long term stability.

But, in each instance, Bush was limiting his short term gains in order to pursue long term stability.

At the same time, fiscal adjustment remains essential to Italy s short and long term stability.

After all, Asian countries are interested in global stability to underpin their own long term development.

Long term goals include working with partner nations to improve national and regional stability and security.

Iraq s militias will not go quietly, yet their dissolution is essential for long term stability, itself a sine qua non for stability in the region.

The country stands before two distinct paths uncontrolled and protracted civil violence, political crisis, and institutional collapse, or short term tension, medium term accommodation, and long term stability.

The G 20 will not achieve growth and stability without a renewed focus on long term debt reduction.

As China grows mightier economically and politically, how can long term stability in the Asia Pacific be ensured?

Isabella ensured long term political stability in Spain by arranging strategic marriages for each of her five children.

Regional integration is a recipe for long term stability in Asia, and a second line of engagement for the EU.

Allowing it to expire without progress toward permanent stability would expose Europe to disruptions that would diminish significantly its prospects for long term economic stability, growth and job creation.

The euro is not overvalued or poorly managed, which would undermine competitiveness and erode confidence in the currency s long term stability.

Ensuring long term stability will require poverty reduction, job creation, reduced income inequality, and the development of these countries human resources.

The cultivation, sale and trafficking of illegal drugs poses a significant threat to the long term security and stability of Afghanistan.

However, the trade in drugs remains the most significant challenge to the long term stability, security, development and governance of Afghanistan.

Investors come here because they link Ireland s eurozone membership to our long term economic stability and access to outside support if necessary.

The genius of modern Europe has consisted in linking long term stability to the pursuit of ever deeper economic and political integration.

Only a regional and global agreement to place Afghanistan s stability above other objectives can make long term stability possible by enabling Afghanistan to survive with security forces that it can afford.

There are many strands to an effective long term strategy to promote conditions for stability and broader political participation in the Arab world.

Short Term Talk, Long Term Cost

So good governance is the key to long term stability. But, like stability, good governance cannot be imposed from the outside rather, it must develop organically, supported by sturdy roots within a society.

At the same time, a peace process backed by elected and more legitimate Arab governments will actually help solidify long term peace and stability.

Indeed, the Middle East cannot achieve long term stability while Iran is excluded from negotiations and the Shia Sunni schism is allowed to deepen.

The consequences of these conflicts have seriously undermined Africa's efforts to ensure long term stability, prosperity, human rights and gender equality for its people.

Long term Recommendations

That is the key point the surge was supposed to provide space for a political settlement, which would provide the foundations of long term stability.

They also set targets for the environment, because they understood its centrality to long term economic growth, human development, and the stability of the planet.

But none of these attributes will lead to long term security, stability, and prosperity for the country unless the government plays a more constructive role.

Thus, left Confucians favor institutional reform, arguing that the long term stability and legitimacy of political institutions requires that they be founded on Chinese traditions.

The international community should focus more on African long term stability and development and offer targeted assistance to support the New Partnership for Africa's Development.

The overall political stability in the region allowed for a sustained shift of focus from crisis management to long term development and the HIV AIDS pandemic.

The shift is aimed at ensuring that the US plays a larger and long term role in shaping this region, where it has long helped to maintain stability and contributed to unprecedented economic growth.

(r) Long term contracts

Long term stockholders alone do not encourage a firm s managers to manage for the long term.

They fail to build long term markets and long term opportunities, the crux of business success.

Most importantly, they have to be long term, since reconstruction itself is a long term process.

The policy has short term and long term objectives.

But further trials alone are unlikely to bring about the long term settlements that the region s fragile states need in order to ensure stability and democratic development.

To create the conditions for long term stability, a negotiated separation may be needed, comparable to the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in former Yugoslavia.

Where progress towards peace and stability has been made, firm political and financial support must be forthcoming to ensure sustainability and long term development for the continent.

So the long term could be long in coming.

The problem is that such long term investments bring results only in the medium and long term.

The Long Term Investment Challenge