Manager Kenny Dalglish has had his problems in the Premier League, with director of football Damien Comolli paying the price when he left the club on Thursday, but cup competitions have sustained Liverpool's season after heavy investment last summer.
If you go back to the Bedrock Principles that we've talked about here, the protection of competition, the need for competition, competition is a sustaining force in our economy.
El Ouaer, the Esperance captain and one of the most successful players in African club competition history, sustained a cut on his head during the 18-minute stoppage.
The series made headlines in October last year, when an episode gained a bigger audience than X Factor's six-chair challenge, traditionally always a showcase of that competition's sustained bearpit cruelty.
In the 1956 individual competition, Winkler sustained a severe groin injury and was almost unable to move, but his mare without direction from her rider completed the course flawlessly in the final round, bringing Winkler the gold.
Does sustaining market competition mean ensuring that all markets have multiple providers, or allowing the outcome of competition to lead to the dominance of oligopolies?
It's that so much competition can be sustained in a field usually portrayed as moribund.
While National Journal has published daily editions at the political conventions since 1984, it faced little sustained competition before this year.
Democrats scored temporary gains in the elections of 1910 and 1912 and, during the Great Depression, in the elections of 1932 and 1934, but it was not until 1954 that sustained competition began to develop between the two major parties.
"There was definitely an intent to send a signal to the bureaucracies on both sides that any kind of downward spiral into overt and sustained competition would not be in either side's interest," said one senior American official who participated in some of the meetings.
