Others still hold that Western powers, chiefly America, have sustained Arab dictatorships to secure the flow of oil.All these arguments have some merit but need weighing.
The allegations relate chiefly to injuries sustained by claimants between 1952 and 1961 during the state of emergency declared by the colonial administration in the face of African resistance to British rule.
Ministers said there would be sustained military action aimed chiefly at Hamas, unless the Palestinians themselves moved against the Islamist organisations.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Abu Dhabi town's population was estimated at 6,000; pearl diving from the rich offshore banks and some local trade (chiefly in the hands of Iranians and Hindus) sustained the economy.
In France, on the other hand, we find throughout the 19th century a comparatively sustained interest in Humboldt that was confined chiefly to his work in the Asian languages and to his Basque studies.
She sustained several injuries when her mounts fell, but left racing chiefly to care for her mother, who died last December.
Current recommendations to initiate dopaminergic therapy in early PD with a DA, or even a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, are chiefly based on concerns about the evolution of motor complications characteristic of sustained LD therapy, most notably drug-induced dyskinesias.
TNF produced in the retina as a result of neurodegenerative conditions promotes sustained JNK activation in RGCs which, in the absence of NF-κB activity, mediates RGC death, chiefly by necrosis.
I doubt, somehow, that either Wilson – chiefly known for managing Joy Division and the Happy Mondays, and setting up Factory Records – or McLaren, rather more famous for his role as the Sex Pistols' svengali, can have subjected The Society of the Spectacle to a sustained critical reading.
Diasporas have sustained us.
