In this synthesis methodology, block copolymer plays the dual role of a reducing agent as well as a stabilizing agent.

This year marks the first post-communist government that not collapsed and served its 4-year term until 2001, thus stabilizing the political system in Bulgaria.

Enriching peanut farmers for political purposes, keeping the price of a staple low to keep the poor from rebelling, stabilizing the production of a crop to avoid famine years, encouraging diversification and many other purposes have been suggested as the reason for specific subsidies.

Then the U. S. government gradually began supporting the French in their war effort, primarily through Mutual Defense Assistance Act, as a means of stabilizing the French Fourth Republic in which the French Communist Party was a significant political force.

Nonetheless, the nineteenth century also saw an increase in the numbers of those cunning folk being prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act of 1736, possibly because " members of the social elite came to perceive that a faith in magic from having been eradicated as they had hoped, seemed to be as prevalent among the populace as it had been a hundred years before, even while a growing political turbulence among commoners gave their rulers a new interest in the idea of education and civility as stabilizing forces.

His theories had a political inclination, which proved that with multiple objectives of price stability and employment policy achieve the desired results of stabilizing the economy.

His political career had suffered from a long period of womanizing, drinking, and adverse publicity, and she is credited with stabilizing his personal life and helping him resume a productive career in the Senate.

The program strives to aid them in stabilizing, diversifying, and professionalizing their political systems.

Built in the National Romantic style with soaring towers and stabilizing buttresses, the school building is a designated historic landmark and is located in Oakland, a few minutes ' walk away from both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

A proof of the politically stabilizing effect of the banana boom of the 1950s is that even Velasco, who in 1952 was elected president for the third time, managed to serve out a full four-year term.

Forming the Unified Task Force ( UNITAF ), the force was tasked with assuring security until humanitarian efforts aimed at stabilizing the situation were transferred to the UN.

Merivale proved to be a stabilizing influence for Leigh ; but, despite her apparent contentment, she was quoted by Radie Harris as confiding that she " would rather have lived a short life with Larry than face a long one without him ".

The IMF was insisting that the Zambian government should introduce programs aimed at stabilizing the economy and restructuring it to reduce dependence on copper.

The M101A1 had a limited on-carriage traverse, which required its trails ( stabilizing legs ) to be shifted if further traverse was necessary.

This action was key in stabilizing the Union defensive line.

In the background was the stabilizing influence of the Hittites, who monitored maritime movement and suppressed piracy.

Removing the causes of chronic inflation, the reform architects argued, was a precondition for all other reforms: Hyperinflation would wreck both democracy and economic progress, they argued ; they also argued that only by stabilizing the state budget could the government proceed to dismantle the Soviet planned economy and create a new capitalist Russia.

The OSCE was engaged in stabilizing the situation in southern Serbia following the Kosovo War.

" As Thomas Schatz observed, this repertoire was " a means of stabilizing marketing and sales, of bringing efficiency and economy into the production of some fifty feature films per year, and of distinguishing Warners ' collective output from that of its competitors ".

On January 14, 2011, while talking about the recording of the new album, drummer Stephen Perkins mentioned that although Sitek was a " stabilizing force " for Jane's Addiction, and was to appear on the upcoming album, he was not the band's full-time bassist as was previously reported.

Measures were taken to modernize the central bodies and a certain success was achieved in stabilizing the chronic Habsburg finances.

The famous kite image of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake ( right ) was taken by an early pioneer in KAP, George Lawrence using a large panoramic camera and stabilizing rig he designed.

After the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act was enacted in mid-June, the Dow dropped again, stabilizing above 200.

Much manpower and effort was put into stabilizing the city for this event.

Chanute was particularly interested in solving the problem of aerodynamic instability of the aircraft in flight, which birds compensate for by instant corrections, but which humans would have to address either with stabilizing and control surfaces or by moving the center of gravity of the aircraft, as Lilienthal did.

The Senate was created to be a stabilizing force, elected not by mass electors, but selected by the State legislators.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at stabilizing the traditional ethnic balance and strictly limiting the total inflow.

The wartime policy of the United States was initially to help China become a strong ally and a stabilizing force in postwar East Asia.

The revenue-sharing was a major factor in stabilizing the AFL and guaranteeing the success of its small-market teams.

Spinning the shuttlecock is also used to create spinning netshots ( also called tumbling netshots ), in which the shuttlecock turns over itself several times ( tumbles ) before stabilizing ; sometimes the shuttlecock remains inverted instead of tumbling.

To reduce these resonant effects, one or two horizontal stabilizing wires, called " damping wires ", are welded across the grille wires, and may be visible as fine dark lines across the face of the screen.

There are many methods for stabilizing fabric, but most often one or more additional pieces of material called stabilizers or interfacing are added beneath or on top of the fabric, or both.

In Finnish, it is called " tasoittava " ( stabilizing ) and in Czech " vyprošťovák " ( extricator ).

Improve 7,000 miles of fishing streams and 56,000 acres of lakes by stabilizing banks, planting streamside cover, and constructing channel improvements.

Cardiac glycosides inhibit this pump by stabilizing it in the E2-P transition state, so that sodium cannot be extruded: intracellular sodium concentration therefore increases.

* For example, the cancer-fighting taxane class of drugs paclitaxel and docetaxel block dynamic instability by stabilizing GDP-bound tubulin in the microtubule.

This number declines with age, stabilizing by adulthood.

Other plausible mechanisms which have been suggested include: habitat tracking, stabilizing selection, the Stenseth-Maynard Smith stability hypothesis, constraints imposed by the nature of subdivided populations, normalizing clade selection, and koinophilia.

Hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine are important for stabilizing collagen by cross-linking the propeptides in collagen.

These actions were aimed primarily at industrialized countries, with the intention of stabilizing their emissions of greenhouse gases at 1990 levels by the year 2000 ; and other responsibilities would be incumbent upon all UNFCCC parties.

* October 7 – The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is issued by George III of the United Kingdom, restricting westward expansion of British North America and stabilizing relations with indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Low ( as opposed to zero or negative ) inflation reduces the severity of economic recessions by enabling the labor market to adjust more quickly in a downturn, and reduces the risk that a liquidity trap prevents monetary policy from stabilizing the economy.

Flax may also lessen the severity of diabetes by stabilizing blood-sugar levels.

* Emperor Diocletian issues his Edict on Maximum Prices, which, rather than halting rampant inflation and stabilizing the economy, adds to inflationary pressures by flooding the economy with new coinage and by setting price limits too low.

Phenytoin acts to suppress the abnormal brain activity seen in seizure by reducing electrical conductance among brain cells by stabilizing the inactive state of voltage-gated sodium channels.

Respiratory Therapists often are in charge of initiating and managing life support for people in intensive care units and emergency departments, stabilizing and monitoring high risk patients being moved from hospital to hospital by air or ground ambulance, and administering inhaled drugs and medical gases such as asthma medication, oxygen, and anaesthetic gases.

Anteroposterior gliding movements between adjacent carpal bones or along the midcarpal joint can be achieved by stabilizing individual bones while moving another ( i. e. gripping the bone between the thumb and index finger ).

After the initial shock of her moving in with her son, she aided him considerably by stabilizing his behavior somewhat, tending to his domestic needs, and providing an aura of conservative respectability that helped win over patrons.

This is especially true if the unexpected shock is one ( like a fall in consumer confidence ) which tends to lower both output and inflation ; in that case, expanding the money supply ( lowering interest rates ) helps by increasing output while stabilizing inflation and inflationary expectations.

Design reports from early 1952 outlined key features of a new gas turbine propelled engine and disc-shaped vehicle: an inner disc with central eye intake with an outer, counter-rotating disc, with rear-directed thrust nozzles, later refined to include controlling the aeroplane by thrust vectoring and stabilizing the vehicle by having the large engine rotor act as a gyroscope.

One can hew wood by standing a log across two other smaller logs, and stabilizing it either by notching the support logs, or using a ' timber dog ' ( a long bar of iron with a tooth on either end that jams into the logs and prevents movement ).