11.  The state of maximum entropy is the most stable state for an isolated system.

12.  This means that water is not in its most stable state at this temperature and pressure.

13.  The equivalent of an admissible algorithm in a distributed processing system would be one that was guaranteed to settle into an optimum stable state.

14.  Connecting a diode in parallel with the capacitor C converts the astable multivibrator into a monostable multivibrator with one stable state.

15.  Again an input trigger pulse of appropriate sign and amplitude will switch the circuit from one stable state to the other.

16.  A stable state of nonbelligerence was the best that could be achieved.

17.  But they are mostly stable states dominated by one party, with small and ineffective oppositions.

18.  In interviews at the National Governors Association winter meetings, the governors warned that even a high cap could plunge stable states into fiscal crises.

19.  Is Russia capable of building a stable democratic state?

20.  It could yet turn out to be one of the few relatively stable states in a region destined to be visited with great political turmoil over the coming months.