General Jodice said a mix of African mercenaries and Qaddafi loyalist troops have successfully sustained command-and-control and supply lines in staunch defense of the cities, despite a NATO air campaign that is now in its seventh month and a multipronged ground assault in Surt by anti-Qaddafi fighters.
More than other allies, Britain has displayed both the will to join the United States in the initial phase of military operations and the wherewithal to quickly deploy, sustain and command its own forces.
A poorly made short film may seem interminable, for example, whereas a three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece, such as D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), can command and sustain a viewer's full attention.
Its stockpile is one of its few bargaining chips in negotiations with the United States and regional power brokers for the loans and handouts it needs to sustain its Soviet-style command economy.
"Indeed, it is obvious that there are insufficient resources – military and financial – under the Kremlin's command to sustain military operations at the current level for over a year: the military capabilities required to carry out the operation are already reaching their limits," the report says.
The Harvard Crimson argued in 1959 that its fragmentary nature "contributes to the film's great weakness: its general diffuseness, its inability to command sustained attention.
He would eventually be back in Afghanistan on his sixth deployment the following January, but he was not overseas on the day Costello, who was now under his command, sustained his own injury.
He cannot sustain the illusion of intellectual command.
"It showed that they understood high-level language commands and could sustain attention, working memory and mental planning of actions, all high level conscious behaviors that they could not demonstrate through movements," he says.
Since Mr. Lukashenko came to power in 1994, he has tried to sustain an old-fashioned Soviet-style command economy.
While it was an attractive and capable device — with a whiz-bang feature or two, like touchless voice commands — sustained price cuts indicate that it has sold relatively poorly; in Google's most recent quarterly-earnings report, Motorola was responsible for roughly a quarter-billion dollars in losses.
