How To Use Unstable In A Sentence

After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government.
Arbon, are you speaking in generalities (Microsoft OS products are 'iffy' right out of the box!) are do you have current experience with an unstable Win7 product? Computers in mexico
She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below.
Watching Nixon's henchmen come out of the woodwork to declare their moral indignation at the ethical lapses of Mark Felt was tantamount to watching Liza Minelli criticize someone else for being an an unstable boozehound.
The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.

In some cases of abduction, the abducting parent is mentally unstable and/or a drug abuser.
He had, so the court was told, taken up with a 'widgie-type' girl who had the 'unstable combination of an adult body and an immature mind'.
If Khouri is as mentally unstable as the article implies then that's a bit harsh, don't you reckon?
He was emotionally unstable.
DSK's defenders paint her as fragile and emotionally unstable. Times, Sunday Times
Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
These are essentially unstable molecules which are highly reactive. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
The once stable, slow - moving, marshy perennial river transformed into an unstable, flood-prone, intermittent stream.
The stable points act as attractors, and correspondingly unstable points as repellers.
I thus set up an independent program to investigate chemical and spectroscopic properties of compounds of atmospheric importance, focusing on those that are unstable and difficult to handle in the laboratory, such as hypochlorous acid, chlorine nitrite, chlorine nitrate, peroxynitric acid, etc. Mario Molina - Autobiography
Experts have said that the unstable exchange rate created difficulties in reaching debt restructuring agreements.
Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
The crossover design is unlikely to provide valid evidence because infantile colic is an unstable condition, and the effects of dicyclomine may continue even after a washout period.
The ground underfoot is often unstable, and some of the currents are extremely strong.
This particular arrangement of nucleons is unstable and so tritium readily undergoes radioactive decay to yield a helium atom.
Although a helicopter has a main blade, rotating at 500 rpm above it, and a tail rotor that acts as a rudder, it remains a completely unstable machine.
The draft report suggests the 26 ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable.
He digs snow pits to look for weak layers in the snowpack, and cuts sections of the slope with his skis to see if he can dislodge unstable pockets.
One of the features of early modern manuscript and even printed language was its variable and unstable nature.
She had spondylosis - where the spine becomes unstable - and she would have it for life. The Sun
Following this extended period of stability the slope, whilst still grazed grassland, suddenly became unstable.
Their work is probably part-time, and highly unstable. Sociology
his rather unstable religious convictions
This unstable region of Ulthuan has a strange other-worldly quality more akin to the realms of Chaos than to mortal lands.
One can show that a stream of gas becomes unstable against such a fragmentation when the length of the stream exceeds a certain num - ber whose value can be derived from hydrodynamical theory. COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850
These unstable phenotypes that varied between siblings included widely variable flower morphology, stem fasciation, variation in rosette leaves, and anthocyanin variegation of the stem.
The whole area watered by the West River had by the 1840s become violently unstable.
By contrast, Keynesian economists argue that the velocity of circulation is unstable and changes rapidly and may offset changes in the money stock. Collins Dictionary of Economics
There is a deep recession, and foreign investors are reluctant to commit themselves in the present unstable situation.
In general, historians tend to portray Somerset's rise to power as logically inevitable and to cast Mary as a marginalized from the jockeying for political position that took place amongst the executor-councilors during the first two months of Edward VI's reign. 11 Hindsight makes it easy to forget that the political situation taking shape after Henry's death in late January 1547 initially appeared unstable. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Once more, though, the poem reveals a play of language which render meaning unstable and even self-contradictory.
Officers said overloaded caravans were unstable and difficult to control.
Rules have yet to be written; traditions have yet to be established. Political power bases are initially fluid and unstable.
It is unstable, it’s even harder to separate physically than the two isotopes of uranium, and if you try to build a bomb using the easy, “gun” design of the uranium bomb, it will begin to fissle prematurely and thus the bomb will fizzle instead of going boom. Firedoglake » Of Last Throes, Enrichment and Mickey Mouse Watches
The unstable surface triggers the muscles surrounding the spine and pelvis, helping the participant to maintain an upright position, improving gait and posture. The Sun
It appears that he had a lively genius, but was unstable, erratic, and weak.
Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface. Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
The monarchy was overthrown in 1973, and since then government has been unstable. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
If not, what does it take to convince you that you're providing a soapbox to an unstable lunatic?
They moved down the pipe and shifted in mostly unstable, unpredictable ways.
This has long been a potentially unstable combination. Times, Sunday Times
In Satre's philosophy, being is prior to "nothing" but would be meaningless without "nothing"; however, man pursues the being in the unstable state, which causes useless warmth of life.
More modern laser techniques allow much more subtle experiments to be applied to both small and large unstable molecules in flow systems.
It is also likely that mass movement is much more common during periods when glaciers are retreating; large moraines and steep valley sides are then unstable because they are no longer supported by the glacier.
The two had been stepbrothers only for a brief while, but had instantly bonded after growing up in unstable families.
The unstable ground underneath his feet suddenly gave way, and he fell into a deep sinkhole.
The soldiers entered the dangerously unstable building to search for victims trapped under the rubble.
It is unstable, and scientists know that it radioactively decays by electron emission to Nitrogen 14, with a half life of 5730 years.
Finally, acute pulmonary embolectomy may be beneficial in the unstable patient who has not responded to conventional treatments.
The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
A divided union movement created chronically unstable labor relations, to which ship owners responded by making generous concessions.
If the quark is one of the heavier, unstable types, it quickly transforms itself back into an ordinary quark , a process that often produces an additional lepton .
This then seems like a more natural solution overall than the traditional account which would have us believe in palatalized velars which extend far into pre-IE despite being unstable and despite lacking any indication of a recent source of their supposed palatalization. Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE
Cooked Tomatoes When fresh tomatoes are cooked down to make a thick sauce, they gain some flavors—notably rose- and violet-like fragments of the carotenoid pigments—but they lose the fresh “green” notes provided by unstable fragments of fatty acids and by a particular sulfur compound a thiazole. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The relative thermometrical conditions of land and water in the same vicinity are constantly varying, and the hygrometrical state of both is equally unstable. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
He said that the difficulties also led to the highly unstable domestic prices and deterioration in living conditions.
Objective To explore the correlation between hyperlipemia, hyperlipoproteinemia and unstable plaques of carotid atherosclerosis in ischemic cerebrovascular patients.
And for a variety of reasons, Dr. Ridker decided that it had to be a process called inflammation, and what his basic research showed that the inflammation of the arteriole wall led to these clogs in these arteries becoming unstable, and they would burst, and that would cause a clot, and that would lead to a heart attack. CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2001
Because of its mutable, unstable, and floating quality, eroticism often turns up in places where it might be assumed to have been completely eradicated.
Mixed with the rampant hormones of the teen years, this combination becomes as explosive and unstable as nitroglycerine.
And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children. An American Tragedy
Prison order is rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences.
It implies, I think, a fundamental break with the domination impulse by which we have "tamed" nature over the millennia of recorded history and built our unstable civilizations, propped up by war and conquest. Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Classical atomists conceived the universe as nothing more than an eternal congeries of material particles of different shapes and sizes perpetually in motion and continually coalescing to form unstable natural bodies.
This will be a fractious and unstable government, riven by internal factional struggles and backbench rebellions.
The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.
All explosives remain dangerous in sea water, as the metal casing corrodes and explosives become unstable.
Construction of drilled piles in unstable soil is difficult because soil can contaminate the pile.
Now, insular autarkies are notoriously unstable, but so are economies that are completely dependent upon foreign trade for basic necessities. Ethical Technology
Behind the borrowing binge lay unstable global imbalances. Times, Sunday Times
Their largely unregulated tunnelling has made the mountainside unstable, government experts say, and heavy rains since last month had saturated the earth on top, triggering the deadly earthfall. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The conditions of patients admitted to the trauma room are usually unstable and critical.
If the dislocation is irreducible or unstable after reduction, referral to an orthopedic or hand subspecialist is advised.
Her face looked curiously unstable, sometimes young and unlined, sometimes withered with years. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
The unpredictable, sporadic nature of storms on an open coast presumably render exposed shores unstable in this respect.
He explains that because of the unstable ground on the river flats, holes dug for the foundations kept caving in.
This results in better outcomes after a patient suffers from unstable angina or a heart attack. Times, Sunday Times
I had a vast mortgage and a badly paid, unstable career. Times, Sunday Times
I had a vast mortgage and a badly paid, unstable career. Times, Sunday Times
That stable situation is then made unstable: Somebody proposes a breakout.
The barrister represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable.
The thief and his pursuers were uncertain on their feet while they tried to traverse the unstable landscape.
This group has a high doctor-patient contact rate but also includes a proportion of patients with unstable or brittle asthma.
The dynamic and unstable nature of this regulatory loop best explains the lobate and asymmetric colony margin of the SA type.
In the same article a local chemist speculated that the site was already leaching radium and a biophysicist called the ground at the site, located on a fault line, ‘very unstable.’
They learned the ways of the fish and the shell-fish, and they invented hooks and lines, nets and fish-traps, and all the diverse cunning ways by which swimming meat can be garnered from the shifting, unstable sea. CHAPTER X
Gradually they have been manumitted; the slaves are free, women vote, young people have a childhood and a charter, the mentally unstable given a place, the disabled access.
Particularly suitable candidates are those with unstable diabetes and evidence of poor control with elevated glycosylated haemoglobin levels.
an unstable world economy
The structure was deemed highly dangerous because it was built on unstable soil foundations. The Sun
Death of the whole tree will not be immediate, but reduced root development will make the larger trees unstable and therefore prone to wind-blow.
Knitted fabrics, such as those used in T-shirts, sweatshirts, infant sleepers and sportswear, are examples of unstable fabrics.
In poor countries with unstable democracies, too little oil money comes back to benefit the people and is instead being spent on maintaining political and personal power of the ruling elite.
Troostite is of doubtful composition, but possibly is an unstable mixture of untransformed martensite with sorbite. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
We used to be funded by a simple tax of one gourde per bag of cement, but that was taken away during unstable times. Stacey McMahan: Taking the First Steps Toward Progress
And these individuals in Germany were handling hydrogen peroxide, which is very unstable, very, very difficult to manipulate. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2007
Political power bases are initially fluid and unstable.
It happens that the crude birth rate, at 13. 5*, is the lowest in a century (so basically it's the lowest ever in the US) -- and that's making headlines and summoning images of a babyless, unstable future. Elizabeth Gregory: Post-Fertile Boomers Push the Birth Rate Drop
Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
Powerful air currents in the larger clouds pushed upwards in the unstable atmosphere, their tops thrust into the sky like turrets on a castle. Times, Sunday Times
Unstable infants may be observed under the radiant warmer for several hours, with attention to increased fluid losses.
Note that extensions are loade d in the connection subprocess, that is, an unstable module will not pull the entire [...] Planet Debian
Avoid drafty areas or situations where the flame will be unstable.
These are essentially unstable molecules which are highly reactive. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
He became paranoid and emotionally unstable. The Sun
Built on a restricted site, scarred by fire and unstable geologic conditions, this modern two-storey house features a minimalist interior on a backdrop of white and large windows for natural light. Shell-Wheeler House : A Sustainable Private Residence by Johnston Architects
It was followed by a succession of unstable coalition governments.
Using the code word "temper," a group of Senate Republicans, and at least some outriders of the George W. Bush campaign, are spreading the word that John McCain is unstable. Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo
The political situation is highly unstable.
But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things.
Ozone also tends to be unstable and break down into dioxygen and nascent oxygen and to react readily with other substances.
They were very happy to trouser the surplus when things were good, now when the markets are unstable, you take the risk with your defined contribution payment.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
This would produce helium-3 and tritium; the tritium is unstable and decays producing helium-3 which would add to that directly produced.
These vortices however, are unstable masses of air that can cause lots of problems to fly in.
It has become one of more than 20,000 items of space junk whose unstable low orbits mean they will one day hurtle back to the surface. Times, Sunday Times
That's an unstable situation for at least two months. The Sun
everything was unstable following the coup
Fewer than half of patients have their sight checked or medicines assessed for drugs that could make them unstable. Times, Sunday Times
On any given afternoon, unstable breezes and moisture ratchet up cumulonimbus clouds in a whirlwind of updrafts and downdrafts that cause particles of rain, ice, and snow to collide.
Unless the crew had the presence of mind to close both throttles at the instant of autorotation, an asymmetric thrust condition would have made an inverted spin even more unstable.
A mentally deficient or unstable individual was not wanted on the line, even if there was a shortage of men.
It is not an indicator of instability; even though the bike is highly unstable when shimmying, it can be an extremely stable bike just a few miles per hour slower.
The authors conclude that among Medicare beneficiaries with unstable angina pectoris, more than one half have atypical presentations.
J. and I have just discovered what the eco-nuts who sell us our henna have not been telling us about the ingredients for some time: The red henna J. prefers isn't actually henna, it's italian senna, which isn't a hair dye at all, just a mild colourant and conditioner, and the deep red colour comes from an un-stated amount of sodium picramate added to the mix - and sodium picramate is a really unstable relative of picric acid, one of the all time unstable dangerous explosives. Murphy's Law x 2
It should not be taken by patients with severe unstable angina, or those who had recent heart attacks, or other conditions where sexual activity in inadvisable.
The use of heat in the treatment of patients with joint instability dates back to ancient times, with Hippocrates describing the use of cauterization in unstable shoulders.
He suggested that in the first split second after the beginning, the vacuum of the Universe existed in a highly energetic state, as allowed by the quantum rules, but unstable.
That's an unstable situation for at least two months. The Sun
Behind the borrowing binge lay unstable global imbalances. Times, Sunday Times
Coke can be hard or soft depending on whether its user is an outgoing party-boy/girl, or an unstable type who needs the coke to become an interesting person.
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Today they read as uncanny reflections of our own unstable, uncertain age.
This unstable heart rhythm produces an ineffective heartbeat, causing insufficient blood flow to vital organs.
These are the "dainties" of which an impotent longing and desire do betray the minds of unstable persons unto a compliance with ways of sin and folly; for I look on these "dainties" to comprise whatever "the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh," or "the pride of life," can afford. The Sermons of John Owen
He oversaw the retrenchment of the national army during an unstable period.
Unstable, critically ill patients demand physician attention.
In this article we discuss the relation between the laser beam divergence and the amplification factor in unstable cavities and the principles for the design of unstable resonators are given.
Martje lives in a world of binaries: she is a confident, strong-willed owner of a business, yet she is fragile, emotionally unstable, and distraught by a previous trauma that seems to haunt her.
The diagnosis is that of an emotionally unstable borderline personality disorder.
He or she may be fascinating, brilliant, eccentric, chaotic, unstable, a wild child, or a genius, but is always unconventional or original, signifying many Aquarian characteristics.
And it is not inconceivable that the still more unstable emanation from the matter named actinium by Debierne and emanium by Giesel may be found to possess an even higher atomic weight than uranium; judging by the phenomenon of brilliant illumination when a preparation of emanium is held above a screen of zinc sulphide, the impression is formed that a very dense matter is falling down on the screen. Sir William Ramsay - Nobel Lecture
Forest regeneration is lack of shrub layer and ground cover plant, and the ecosystem is under a very unstable state.
Betty is a successful writer who is forced to relive her traumatic childhood when her mentally unstable mother comes to visit.
Lactate concentrations in whole blood are extremely unstable because of the rapid production and release of lactate by erythrocytes due to glycolysis.
The economy is unstable and unpredictable, and people have to adapt to many changes to survive.
I had some vague suspicions that it might not be a good idea to use a compound as photochemically unstable as biacetyl in food. Hot Buttered
The barrister represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable.
With national unemployment rates still on the rise amid an unstable economy, industries such as ophthalmic assisting provide steady, secure employment opportunities for job-seekers. PRWeb - Daily News Feed
Prison order is rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences.
They informed me many of these vagrants are dopers, alkies and mentally unstable, they deal with them on a regular basis. Justices lament closing main entrance to high court building
~ When potassium chromate is treated with an acid the potassium salt of the unstable dichromic acid (H_ {2} Cr_ {2} O_ {7}) is formed: An Elementary Study of Chemistry
Police say Bazell, who had a ticket for a domestic Delta flight, appeared mentally unstable.
An inflammable substance is an unstable substance that may self-ignite, in other words; it may explode. Toilet Paper
Due to natural erosion the cliff was inherently unstable, and there had been at least two landslips on the authority's land.
The barrister represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable.
Gymnastics robot is a nonlinear, non-integrity, strong coupling, mufti-state, underactuated system, and placed in the stable region is a naturally unstable system.
In some respects the world is becoming more, not less, unstable as a result of the antiterror campaign.
It is a highly flammable and unstable compound, with a life of between thirty and eighty years.
Though souls may rush together, if body cannot endure body, happiness is reared on sand and the structure will be ever unstable and tottery. CHAPTER 8
The political situation is highly unstable.
His ‘landslide’ election victory (in fact a demonstrably unstable coalition) was greeted as the dawning of a new era.
In such a system, visual and auditory linguistic signifiers are in changing, unstable correspondence with the concepts they stand for.
If such particles become unstable, they clump together causing the paint to thicken substantially.
Gold's reputation as a safe haven burnishes its allure, especially when stocks and bonds look unstable, as they do now. Gold Gets New Converts, Even as Metal's Price Grows More Precious
This last form of hydrogen, often called tritium, is unstable and therefore radioactive. Isotope
Yet this one is so poorly made that the mast at sea would have twisted, making the ship unstable and difficult to control.
In total, there have been fewer than six years of being governed this way and these periods proved highly unstable. Times, Sunday Times
Others are known that are so very slightly unstable that their half-lives are trillions and quadrillions of years.
The AHA categories include ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction, non - STEMI myocardial infarction, and unstable angina pectoris.
~ Like manganese, chromium forms two unstable acids, namely, chromic acid and dichromic acid. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
It was a risk, bringing still more penmen who had not been checked beforehand-across an unstable Portal, but the gain was worth the risk. Storm Rising
At exactly the same moment, the organic catalyst interacts with the aldehyde, forming an enamine, also an activated unstable molecule. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The structure was deemed highly dangerous because it was built on unstable soil foundations. The Sun
Most importantly, because the color changes appear to follow no predictable program, they produce a space even more unstable than that of Impressionist painting.
Wahid, at the head of an unstable multi-party coalition, is attempting a precarious political balancing act.
For this reason, missilery has accepted aerodynamically unstable vehicles which, in case of loss of thrust, flip over and break apart, destroying themselves in the air.
They set out either on their own iniciative or because they had been summoned by spiritual or secular leader to fulfil every type of musical function; their emigrations were encouraged by the unstable political situation in the Low Countries at that time. Archive 2009-04-01
And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text. 13.3.
Here I am, asprawl upon one of those cheap couches they send to you in two or three boxes for self-assembly; they are unstable and a carcinogenic perfume wafts from the cushions.
A thundercloud, with a distinctive upper anvil shape, results from air which is moist and unstable rising by convection.
Even when it was discovered that the land was unstable and prone to landslide, the squatters remained.
Each element has at least one isotope with unstable nuclei that can undergo radioactive decay.
The whole poem is rich in such complementarities, in binary oppositions and contradictions, all meticulously calibrated, uncanny and unstable. The Times Literary Supplement
In van der Waals' theory, the spinodals are the turning points in the loops of the phase diagram where a metastable liquid or gas becomes unstable.
The world is becoming a more dangerous and unstable place. The Sun
Their job is to destroy unstable planets in order to make star systems safe for human colonization.
Some were very shaky and unstable, others were convoluted, and a few were both!
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
The pattern of polygonal ridges bounding dish-shaped depressions is interpreted as the product primarily of embryonic overturn of this gravitationally unstable system.
It was the one place her cancer had spread that might become unstable. Times, Sunday Times
Pits can be opened 10-15 days after ensiling but the silage will be unstable, as fermentation will not be completed.
These can include loose/unstable joints which are prone to frequent dislocations, joint pain, fragile skin that bruises or tears easily, severe scarring, slow and poor wound healing, development of fleshy lesions (molluscoid pseudo tumors), chronic debilitating musculoskeletal pain, poor muscle tone, and gum disease. Emaxhealth
I was under-age and deemed too unstable to make my own decisions.

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