And he argues that "Democrats and liberals have shown little interest in maintaining and sustaining institutions designed to produce majorities in Congress and to win the White House".
They can sustain institutions that have long seemed unsustainable; the unelected House of Lords and the Church of England spring to mind.
The plan will sustain institutions that play a crucial role in the economy, while holding down taxpayer costs by more or less cleaning out the stockholders.
However, even the largest African research institutions appear to lack the size, experience, and local supporting expertise to sustain institution-specific funds capable of making larger investments.
That is, he contended that anyone who benefits greatly from the presence of some institution is morally required to bear a commensurate share of the burden of sustaining that institution's existence.
Wiseman is very much at home in the discourse of bureaucracy and administration, of managers sustaining the institution with respectful consideration of diverging forces and interests, positioning it with respect to electoral politics and personal relationships while keeping focus squarely on the library's mission and values.
Arts groups leaders are mostly welcoming, he said, though curious about a commercial enterprise led by partners without a history of creating and sustaining cultural institutions.
He would then be counted on for help in defending the city from attacks, sustaining its institutions of justice, and contributing to its common good.
The most natural suggestion would be that a world citizen should serve the world-state, helping to bring it about in order to enable the later work of sustaining its institutions and contributing to its common good.
One way of reconciling those apparently opposed principles was the argument known as the "civilizing mission," which suggested that a temporary period of political dependence or tutelage was necessary in order for "uncivilized" societies to advance to the point where they were capable of sustaining liberal institutions and self-government.
