It sustained its position in the ratings long after Shakespeare's death.
"It has been a period in which, due to retirements and resignations, it has not sustained its strength in international relations," Mr. Falk said.
It deals with the Western world's hyper-consumerism and oppression of native peoples and African slaves, which is how it obtained and sustained its power the very techniques that Braxton sees as eventually bringing about its downfall.
The I.R.A. has sustained its cease-fire since 1996, but clearly, it feels that it and the Catholic community would be vulnerable to more attacks if the I.R.A. disarmed unilaterally.
Despite sweeping changes to GCSEs that have bedevilled so many other schools, Cotham has not only sustained its performance, but improved on it.
Yet somehow it took off and sustained its takeoff with no growth in private credit whatsoever.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that, even after being away for nearly three months, my blog had sustained its growth rate, and more so, it has managed to outperform my previous results by a significant margin.
That figure has nearly doubled in the past six months, as the country has sustained its worst casualties — 97 killed so far this year — since it first deployed troops to Afghanistan after the Taliban were toppled in 2001.
In mitigation: James Wan's original sustained its US audience far more diligently (at weekend four, it had taken $120.7m domestic, to Annabelle's $79.5m), and slowly built a foreign audience to an eventual $318m worldwide gross.
It is not clear whether Argentina could have sustained its fast pace of growth under specialization (see Llach in this volume) if the world had remained widely integrated, as it was during the Belle Époque.
And when the moment finally came, when the old ballpark sustained its cheers as the cart carrying Steinbrenner made its way in, it wasn't love Winfield felt; it wasn't sadness, or pity.
