21.  They needed a stabilizing force.

22.  This harmony with the calendar, society and the media is a great stabilizing force for the year-ender and year-starter.

23.  Washington initially supported Berisha when he came to power, in part because it saw his hardheadedness as a stabilizing force in a strategically important region.

24.  Whatever that is supposed to mean, Hillary Rodham Clinton is -- by my reading of the story -- a stabilizing force that Clinton badly needed.

25.  Williams has been a stabilizing force on a young offensive line.

26.  Paris views Turkmenistan as a stabilizing force in a volatile region made up of former Soviet states as well as Afghanistan and Iran.

27.  But Rifaat stayed away and Hezbollah proved a stabilizing force along the Lebanon-Israeli border.

28.  Clinton is seeking to help Obasanjo turn his nation into a stabilizing force for the rest of Africa.

29.  He is seen as the stabilizing force in a front office that over the last six months has seen its top officers resign or be fired.

30.  He has sought to portray himself as a competent manager and a stabilizing force in a country rocked by repeated political and economic upheavals.