You're lucky your children are all settled.

If the weak force had been a little bit different, then carbon and oxygen wouldn't be stable inside the hearts of stars, and there would be none of that in the universe.

We should, according to the stereotypical Western concept of a third world country, be politically unstable, administratively incompetent and economically depressed.

This is becoming a global problem with terrible consequences, because most drug addicts become socially unstable and often turn to crime.

Carbon (C) has 15 known isotopes, from 8C to 22C, 2 of which (12C and 13C) are stable.

We do not want the future to be in the hands of unstable individuals, which would be a catastrophe and jeopardize the stability and the democratic development of humankind.

If the weak force had been a little bit different, then carbon and oxygen wouldn't be stable inside the hearts of stars, and there would be none of that in the universe.

This tendency at times of economic downturn suggests that SWFs are not the long term, stable shareholders of foreign firms that they (and some commentators) claim themselves to be.

But if corruption creeps in and people don't have the opportunity to have that protection of the rule of law, then if you can use violence, if you can use violence with impunity, you can reach out and harvest the vulnerable into slavery.

( Do you think ) you will be left secure here

In these gardens and these springs ,

The fields of corn and date palm trees with soft and tender spathes ,

And dwellings hewed out of mountains ingeniously ?

Will you be left peacefully in these favours over here ?

In gardens and water springs ?

And fields and palm trees , with delicate tendrils ?

And you carve out dwellings in the mountains , with skill ?

Will you be left secure in this here ,

among gardens and fountains ,

sown fields , and palms with slender spathes ?

Will you still skilfully hew houses out of the mountains ?

Shall ye be left secure in that which is here before us .

In gardens and springs .

And corn fields and palm trees whereof the spathes are fine ?

And hew ye out houses in the mountains skilfully ! g

Will you be left secure in that which you have here ?

In gardens and springs .

And green crops ( fields etc . ) and date palms with soft spadix .

And you carve houses out of mountains with great skill .

Will you be left secure in what is here ?

In gardens and springs ?

And fields , and palm trees whose fruits are delicious ?

And you skillfully carve houses in the mountains ?

Do you believe that you will be left here to live securely in the present state

amidst gardens and springs

and cornfields and date palms laden with juicy fruits ?

You hew dwellings in mountains and exult in that .

Will ye be left secure in that which is here before us ,

In gardens and watersprings .

And tilled fields and heavy sheathed palm trees ,

Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain , being skilful ?

Will you be left secure in that which is here

amid gardens and springs ,

farms and date palms with dainty spathes

while you skillfully hew out houses from the mountains ?