Negative feedback tends to make a system self-regulating; it can produce stability and reduce the effect of fluctuations.

"I think you will find that successful economic growth and economic integration is the best way mankind has yet found to produce stability," he said.

The age is long since gone when friendly authoritarians could rule over passive populations and produce stability indefinitely.

It produces flexibility and stability in the body to practice meditation.

The painful lessons learned during the war, of course, helped produce the pacifism and stability that nurtured Japan's postwar success.

The system was an effective mechanism in producing domestic stability and social order for the Japanese government.

The political consensus of the post-war years produced stability at the cost of innovation.

It has not produced new stability or security in the region.

That approach, which produced so much prosperity and stability for the last half of the last century, is still the right approach today.

There is a great deal more involved in bringing about social and political changes that will produce strong democracies and stability in the region.