1. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5%.

2. He married, had a child and maintained a steady job before he was ordered back to jail in 2014.

3. The fee held steady at 0.5.

4. Sprint stayed steady at 71, and AT T rose to 70.

5. Sales will peak in 2015 at $11.9 billion and will hold steady at that level through 2017.

6. From 2001 to 2009 the civilian rate held steady at 18 suicides per 100,000.

7. Google will keep Android on a steady course as it has in the past.

8. It is possible that we are looking more at a steady climb than at a quick rise.

9. The social network has seen steady growth, with mobile users becoming a key part of its success.

10. The role of the grid is to keep the supply of power steady and predictable.

11. This has given Microsoft a steady revenue stream from one of its main rivals in the mobile world.

12. The business world is in fact making slow but steady progress toward paper reduction.

13. For generations, people could walk out of high school and into a steady factory job.

14. No one has a steady job, or a career to speak of.

15. Sometimes a company takes a slow and steady path to dominance.