Darrel Regier, vice-chair of the DSM-5 task force, has a similar opinion that the political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR was sustained by the existence of a classification developed in the Soviet Union and used to organize psychiatric treatment and care.
Here the "how" refers to "the relationship sustained by the existing individual, in his own existence, to the content of his utterance" (Anthology, 214).
In Plotinus (3rd century ce), the foremost Neoplatonist, the Nous (Greek, "mind"), a realm of ideas or Platonic forms, serves as the intermediary between God and the world, and the theme of immanence is sustained by positing the existence of a World-Soul that both contains and animates the world.
These feminists believe that objectification is a consequence of gender inequality and it is created and sustained by pornography's existence and consumption.
Overcome by passivity and existential dread, Hans hunkers down in the Chelsea Hotel, flying to London once or twice a month to see his son, while getting more and more depressed, his existence sustained by a "succession of men who arrived at my door with beer and pizzas and sparkling water".
I stayed in bed for almost a week, my existence sustained by a succession of men who arrived at my door with beer and pizzas and sparkling water.' So begins Hans's long period of exile from his family and from himself.
It sounds frightfully close to real communities in the US like Huntsville, Texas, where residents accept the fact that their existence is sustained by a prison economy and the local joke is "half the population of Huntsville's under key, and the other half gets paid for their time".
That state of attainment is not sustained by any substantive elements of existence (viz., the trans-temporal dharmas of the Vaibhāṣika) but rather by the thought of attainment itself (samāpatticitta).
If we think of the immaterial soul in Cartesian terms, there simply isn't anything that can happen to such a soul (barring its being no longer sustained in existence by God) that could bring it about that the soul ceases to be; Cartesian souls are "naturally immortal".
As Darwin (1859) realized, this massive discrepancy between the number of offspring produced and the number that can be sustained by available resources creates a "struggle for existence" in which often only a tiny fraction of individuals will succeed.
In any case, one thing has been certain, that with the support of its founding sponsor American Express, the festival had the secure financial bedrock from which it could be nurtured into a yearly event sustained by more than its original rationale for existence.
