Delivering his ruling, he said he had "sustained the arguments in favour of the accused" and told Coulson: "I acquit you of the charge".
Now it's about Aberdeen sustaining the argument.
This helped sustain the argument that private equity firms — despite the implosion of their leveraged buyout businesses — were still worth the huge fees their investors paid.
"It is impossible to sustain the argument that a German shepherd dog," the court wrote, "is includable in the statutory definition of the term 'deadly weapon.' " It did, however, find that the dog qualified as a dangerous instrument.
State execution of men who kill will always be an issue, here as in the United States - the more so with cases like the weekend's Derbyshire mass murder to sustain the argument.
In any case, there is no assurance that joblessness will continue to drop, or that the financial crisis in Europe will not derail any hope the White House has of being able to sustain the argument that the worst is behind us.
It is, quite simply, impossible to sustain the argument, to intelligent supporters stumping up their hard-earned cash for tickets at ever-increasing prices, that the £700m borrowings the Glazers have imposed, and £67m of interest payable last year, is having no impact.
The defence might require that cognitive status be attributed to moral judgments, but it might also be possible to sustain the argument for private judgment independent of the issue of ethical objectivity.
It is hard for anyone to sustain the argument that improvement is perfectly linear, but some theorists more than others emphasize that such episodes and eras can be part of a pattern of long-term improvement.
This makes it hard to sustain the argument that Bristol merchants were somehow 'pushed out' of Iceland.
Like Rubio and Cruz, Sanders's only chance at staying in the game is to close the gap with Clinton in states that she is projected to win, picking off enough delegates to sustain the argument that he is running a viable campaign against the Democratic heir apparent.
