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How to use the word unstable in a Sentence?

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I think the big question is going to be, OK, Canada, where do you stand on all this? And I would suggest that Canada has been struggling to match some of its allies over the last number of years in responding to this unstable security environment. So it will probably be the elephant in the room to a certain extent.

Vincent Rigby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People’s experience of the pandemic was really bifurcated, and that can affect people’s decisions around having children, people who lost jobs, people who had to keep working even though they didn’t want to, people in high-risk professions may have experienced that as a very stressful and unstable time.

Sarah Hayford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People who lost jobs, people who had to keep working even though they didn’t want to, people in high-risk professions may have experienced that as a very stressful and unstable time, for people who were able to work from home and experience the pandemic as a time of more financial stability, that might have been a good time to have children without sort of the challenges of commuting or being in the office.

American Indian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Early season snowpack can be highly unstable because of the lack of consistent storms, once the storm door is open to more frequent snow events in January and February, snow begins to pile up in layers on top of the unstable, early season snowfall.

Van Dam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Policing is a violent institution that must end, we imagine a country where there is enough money to educate our children, care for our sick and feed those who are financially unstable. Defunding the police allows for this vision.

Rashad Robinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In most times, sentiment reflects the economy. It doesn't create it -- except at turning points, if people get pessimistic, we'll go into a recession. If people maintain optimism, then the economy will probably have a soft landing -- but it makes for a very unstable situation.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If people get pessimistic, we'll go into a recession. If people maintain optimism, then the economy will probably have a soft landing -- but it makes for a very unstable situation, the economy depends on expectations, and expectations depend on the economy.

George Loewenstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It seems like we're in a stasis, but it's a very unstable balance and we don't know which way it will break, behind the scenes, there will be a frantic effort on both sides to prepare for future offensives.

Max Bergmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was very unstable. I wasn’t thinking right. So I hooked up with these guys and all of a sudden I’m a stick-up artist. I stuck up every nightclub in New York, i’m no angel.

Bobby Bank/Getty

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When they won the Cold War, the US declared themselves God's own representatives on earth, people who have no responsibilities -- only interests. They have declared those interests sacred. Now Cold War's one-way traffic, which makes the world unstable.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I commend the excellent work of the police dispatcher and call taker, with our Emergency Communications Center, as well as the courageous acts of our officers potentially going into a dangerous and unstable situation to arrest this suspect.

Marcus Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We understand the epidemic situation in the city is still unstable. We don’t know when exactly we will be allowed to resume production.

Li Yueqing

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's slashings. There's shootings, my last email to the mayor's office was that, amongst other things, we just had a massacre in Texas, an unstable man who was ignored, but it's not like people didn't know he was unstable. We have a park of mentally unstable people currently slashing and shooting each other. What would make us think this wouldn't turn into something much more tragic ?

Elizabeth Clay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As the first woman to serve as America's top diplomat, Madeleine's courage and toughness helped bring peace to the Balkans and paved the way for progress in some of the most unstable corners of the world.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In early June 2018, I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home, which was fairly isolated, due to Eric's unstable and coercive behavior, this behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then three-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by his hair.

Sheena Greitens

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we need to change the way of how we think of life on other worlds, we need to consider the unique geological histories of our extraterrestrial environments and put that in context with what we have here on Earth. If rivers were unstable on Mars while hot springs were common, then perhaps life in hydrothermal environments is the most likely place where life could have existed.

Justin Wang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hyundai Motor expects that on-year sales growth might slow down for the rest of 2021 amid adverse business conditions caused by the unstable supply of semiconductor chips.

Hyundai Motor

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This a country with a quite unstable macroeconomy, with a high degree of taxes that are imposed on the capital that comes to invest.

Buenos Aires-based

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Hurricanes need relatively moist conditions and an unstable atmosphere, the Saharan Air Layer is a warm and dry layer that located about 15,000 feet high so basically that will introduce very dry and warm conditions in the north Atlantic, so that will create very stable and unfavorable conditions to hurricanes.

Bowen Pan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Weather's really against us. It's going to be hot, it's going to be dry and air's going to be unstable which helps the heat raise faster, which brings in more air. All things that are negative for firefighters and positive for fire. So it's going to be a real battle today.

Operations Section Chief John Flannigan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It became clear that there were two main factors, first that overall climates were becoming cooler, and this made life harder for the dinosaurs which likely relied on warm temperatures, then, the loss of herbivores made the ecosystems unstable and prone to [an] extinction cascade. We also found that the longer-lived dinosaur species were more liable to extinction, perhaps reflecting that they could not adapt to the new conditions on Earth.

Mike Benton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They began to raise a critical voice and began to look like people who can challenge current thinking, what we see now is how unstable this balance was, and that control remains the government's key interest.

Sonja Opper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What I hear thousands of times over these years is 'I'd rather die trying. So as much as we try to produce this message, we know that people are going to continue to cross, and what I hope from this community and from these instances is that we continue to put resources into saving those who come to our shores, saving those who cross into our desert, i worked in many emergency rooms where they train combat doctors, but I was completely ill-prepared to see what happened here in the desert, and the desolation, the moment where you find someone, and you know that they're unstable, and you need to get help immediately.

Juanita Molina

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many of our girls come from environments where they're really struggling with unstable family situations, violence in their communities.

Keren Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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