A cultural historian's guide to the Most Serene Republic through the arts, beliefs and ideologies that sustained it in its days as a medium-great power, able to withstand the Turks in the Mediterranean and rule much of Italy.
The Christian Grey of cities. Southend has always had an air of failure that could be attributed to its feeling of inadequacy next to London, which at once sustains it in terms of the endless job opportunities, but also deprives it in other, less quantifiable ways.
To sustain it in any form will cost millions.
On eight occasions Mr Balls, the shadow Chancellor, sidestepped questions over whether a minority Labour government would look to the Scottish National Party to sustain it in power.
As for how he said it, no one has ever been quite able to sustain it in translation; but Lattimore evokes a kindred metrical magic, and Fitzgerald summons the Homeric spirit through blank verse.
"If we go the same way with a failed war on drugs, or try the American or the Latin American route, there's no way we can sustain it; in fact, we might really destabilise our societies.
For all its positive elements, the French model has not yet not incorporated enough flexibility, leaving it with the task of ensuring solidarity, but not the dynamic growth needed to sustain it in the long run.
After ruling Mexico since 1929, the party faces an unprecedented task: it must not only find new leaders, but a new identity and methods to sustain it in opposition.
Paz can often convey this feeling of melancholy in exquisite brief poems, such as "Certeza" ("Certainty"), and can also sustain it in longer compositions, such as "Entre lo que veo y digo" ("Between What I See and What I Say").
One reason the Soviet design was so thirsty is that the power needed to lift a ground-effect vehicle is far greater than that needed to sustain it in level flight.
