Quine argued that the distinction could not be sustained: all statements are, in principle, answerable to experience, and, conversely, all statements can be maintained in the face of experience as long as we adjust other parts of our picture of the world.
Order No. 11 does not sustain this statement, I admit, but then I do not sustain that order".
Six years later, as a candidate for president -- even then there was a Jewish vote -- Grant wrote: "I have no prejudice against any sect or race.... Order No. 11 does not sustain this statement, I admit, but then I do not sustain that order".
We sustain such statement using Sager's example [24]: 'concepts represented in terminological dictionaries are predominantly expressed by the linguistic form of nouns'.
Those arguing for radical incommensurability — the view that the questions and answers in one tradition cannot sustain meaningful statement in the other tradition — rely on the recognition of radical difference in basic concepts and modes of inquiry.
When used in cases that are out of the ordinary, or in the absence of the background required to sustain the statement of truths or falsehoods, words might in that sense fail us.
"It was sustained on the statement of a pretty discredited protected witness and on circumstances fairly unlikely," Mr. Karam told reporters on Thursday.
Ms. Spero later described the work as "a personal attempt at exorcism"; it remains one of the great, sustained protest art statements of its era, all the more forceful for its unmonumental scale.
About one-fifth issued death certificates sustained improper COD statements and only one-tenth had noteworthy errors that would threaten the quality of COD statistics.
According to the band's statement, Mr. Tyler sustained a broken shoulder and received stitches to his head, and he is not able to tour in his current condition.
