However, it might be argued that poor performance which continues to be maintained at a similar level throughout a task indexes difficulty due to the specific cognitive demands of that task, rather than one of sustaining attention on it.
For it could be argued that initial poor performance, which continues to be maintained at a similar level throughout a task, simply indexes a difficulty due to the specific cognitive demands of that task, rather than one of sustaining attention on it.
This means that at the moment the role that the fighting plays is one of sustaining a sense of growing historical possibility.
It all makes for a compelling spectacle, but not necessarily one of sustained quality.
It hasn't hurt that the art of Africa is one of sustained and multifaceted excellence, or that research in this field has expanded exponentially over the last three decades.
If so, the good news scenario is one of sustained slow growth, impaired income growth and upward mobility, and an inflexible budget unable to adapt to new challenges because of interest costs and entitlement spending.
"The most likely scenario for the next two years is one of sustained growth in the U.S. and progressive recovery in Europe and Japan, in a context of low inflationary pressures and with a gradual reduction in unemployment," the chief economist of the organization, Jean-Philippe Cotis, said Wednesday, presenting the report in Paris, where the group is based.
In 1984 the pro-Stirling critic Reyner Banham wrote that "anyone will know who keeps up with the English highbrow weeklies (professional, intellectual or satirical), the only approvable attitude to James Stirling is one of sustained execration and open or veiled accusations of incompetence".
'Pollock's emblematic career tells us, with perverse reassurance, how brief and hazardous the visitations of grace can be.' That 'perverse reassurance' might extend to Updike's own American career, which has been one of sustained illumination rather than fitful dazzle.
My gut tells me the reason is complex: not just a question of innate aptitudes, nor one of sustained discrimination, but more likely, a combination of both.
One means of sustaining hyperthermostability is for proteins to exist in higher oligomeric forms than their mesophilic homologues.
