A celebration gets boring and dissipates if it closely follows a formula, and the Day of the Dead, celebrated on All Souls Day, Nov. 2, in Mexico, persists because it is sustained by a dynamic ambiguity.
This story is particularly flimsy because it is sustained by so little evidence, and because it leaves so many strands dangling — such as the testimony from several witnesses that Hill had complained about sexual harassment almost from the beginning of her association with Thomas.
English, the author argues convincingly in "Globish," will not break up into new languages and die, as Latin did, because it is sustained by the Internet, global marketing, mass consumerism, instant communications, international soccer, texting, and (McCrum is English) cricket and the legacy of Winston Churchill.
This seems like a beautiful belief, but it is only beautiful because it is sustained by unbelief.
Moreover, it's harder to shift because it is sustained by a moral judgment against the people who are "otherized".
The practice persists because it is sustained by social perceptions, including that girls and their families will face shame, social exclusion and diminished marriage prospects if they forego cutting.
Kerry told Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy in a phone call that he believes Egypt is entitled to the aid because it is "sustaining the strategic relationship with the United States" and carrying out its obligations under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, spokeswomantment spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement Tuesday evening.
And it's sustained because the black hole is consuming the star gradually.
"Yugoslavia could not be kept up," Croatian President Stipe Mesic said, "because it was being sustained by three integrating factors: [Marshal Josip Broz] Tito with his charisma, the multinational Communist Party and the Yugoslav army, which was also multinational.
