Each national history sustains its own totality and coherence precisely in the way it ignores or exploits the histories of neighbours.
But scholars stress that voodoo has played a central role in Haitian history, sustaining people who have endured oppressive governments, grinding poverty and natural calamities.
If decisionmakers treat this project as no more than a local exercise in economic development, goosed up by fatuous public relations, they will be weighed in the scales and found wanting, for as long as history sustains a regard for truth.
The distance of Earth from the Sun, as well as its orbital eccentricity, rate of rotation, axial tilt, geological history, sustaining atmosphere and protective magnetic field all contribute to the current climatic conditions at the surface.
NO COUNTRY in history has sustained such a blistering rate of growth over three decades as China.
The leading scorer in the United States team's history, Landon Donovan, sustained an injury in his most recent game for the Los Angeles Galaxy, and when he arrived at the national team's camp, doctors ruled him ineligible.
Implants could be contraindicated in light of the patient's medical history and/or sustained smoking habit.
