1.   And so we allowed reunification to proceed calmly, without complications or disruption of European stability.

2.   Any loss in momentum, the argument goes, could imperil the grand alliance between Germany and France that has anchored European stability for nearly half a century.

3.   But he is now edging ever so cautiously toward military involvement, apparently in the belief that European stability is threatened.

4.   German officials chose to see the summit in the context of European stability.

5.   NATO was established specifically to preserve and protect European stability.

6.   Talk about stabilizing Europe through the arguably unnecessary initiative of expanding NATO could ring hollow if Washington walks away while European stability is unraveling again in Bosnia.

7.   That drive is not only a wider threat to European stability but also to Albanian moderation.

8.   That is what would really secure European stability.

9.   The difference, to Westerners, is that he threatens European stability.

10.   The United States has a clear interest in European stability.