Verb (used with object) : The government will try to stabilize the cost of living.    From Dictionary.com. 

The details of the scheme - including the price at which petrol will "stabilise" - will be the subject of a consultation launched soon after a Conservative election victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The details of the fuel scheme - including the price at which petrol will "stabilise" - would be the subject of a consultation launched soon after a Conservative election victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Developed states also committed to 'stabilise' their level of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Sarkozy told journalists the aim was not to slash the EU budget but to "stabilise" it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Needless to say, the views attributed to Rudd to 'stabilise' South Asia have been met with a derisive sneer in New Delhi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

He said it came at a time "when we were looking for something to kind of stabilise us towards the end of the crazy 1960s".    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

"For me, it came at a time when we were looking for something to kind of stabilise us towards the end of the crazy '60s," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

"stabilise" imbalances within global economic recovery from the world's worst recession in a century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference

"stabilise" and non-aggression agreements would have to be drawn up between Tbilisi and the two breakaway regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

'It could help stabilise the situation,' urged Thorne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]

Why does Israel allow the economy to stabilise and even grow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

In a common effort, we can begin to rebuild and stabilise our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [RDP White Paper] Reference

It is certainly welcome that Israel has allowed the economy to stabilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

'I have no alternative but to stabilise,' declared the General of the 8th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]

To stabilise concentrations at (parts per million by volume) 450 550 650 750.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

We welcome the intervention of the police and the army to stabilise the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [STATEMENT ON THE TENSION IN GREENFIELD, EAST RAND] Reference

Only when US house prices stabilise will we know we are at the bottom of all this.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I don't know if it's possible to stabilise Afghanistan through the Nato forces any more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neocons are hypocrites on WikiLeaks] Reference

But no one seems to have any realistic and achievable ideas for how to stabilise Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

An ambitious goal would be to stabilise nitrogen oxide emissions at current levels by 2050.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Equally successful, at least for some years, was the plan to stabilise international currencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [SA needs a diversity of media ownership] Reference

To stabilise a harmonious and co-operative relationship between members and their employers; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Democratic Nursing Organisation Of South Africa] Reference

Both quick and hydrated limes can be used to stabilise soils containing a high clay fraction. 1 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Establishing vegetation in saline soil to stabilise aeolian sand at Walvis Bay, South-West Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

After the falls of yesterday, many commentators predict that Western markets will also stabilise today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recession Watch] Reference

Succeeding military junta regimes needed strong business connections to stabilise their administrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

The Tory mission would be to stabilise inflation, as they did in the early 1980s and after the ERM debacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why George Osborne looks so pale] Reference

That can then allow Israel to relax security restrictions around Gaza with the hope the region can stabilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

As already discussed in Chapter II, various cementitious materials can be employed to stabilise clay-based soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Sydney Mufamadi, to stabilise the area with a view to creating a climate for an amicable resolution of the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [BUSHBUCKRIDGE VIOLENCE] Reference

Find ways to stabilise food prices in order to prevent inflationary surges, protect food security and combat hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC 52ND NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007 - RESOLUTIONS] Reference

My sense is that last night will get the McCain campaign up off the floor, it should see McCain stabilise his position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Truth is, itcould help stabilise the markets for the time being (they're currently plummeting on the back of banking losses).    From Wordnik.com.  [Darling speeds up recapitalisation plans] Reference

The economic situation will stabilise in time and we will survive but massive borrowing and massive debt will make things worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The wide motions of the brush create a sense of openness and fluency that doesn't stabilise into neat lines, doesn't settle down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter] Reference

The power of nation states to stabilise domestic economic conditions through fiscal and monetary policy has been severely undermined.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEBATING CASTELLS AND CARNOY ON THE NETWORK SOCIETY1] Reference

When he could discover that the economy was still in such a terrible state that the only way to stabilise it would be to join the euro.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

They had a plan called the price keeping operation or PKO, which used public money to buy shares on the market and so stabilise the price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan shows the limits of pump-priming] Reference