Its main conclusion was this: "Our findings, if sustained, point to natural causes and a moderate warming trend with beneficial effects for humanity and wildlife".
When targeted by AID, these regions may sustain point mutations or DSBs [ 30].
And, indeed, sustained point-of-view shots are more common in nonfiction cinema, where we are trained to see through the eyes of filmmakers holding cameras, as in "The Gleaners and I" (2000), Agnès Varda's poetic essay about collecting and other pursuits.
That said, to reduce the novel to a "just say no" diatribe would be to greatly miss one of its and its author's sustaining points.
It took about nine months to get to the self-sustaining point.
We did however note that at this sustained time point, the level of p/MHC ligand not only directed the frequency of T cells that initiated Myc expression but also influenced the level of Myc per cell (Fig 1F, right panel).
"We are at a level that, if sustained, would point to solid job gains ahead," said Joel L. Naroff, president and chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors.
A chief unifying device is a repeated bass line or sustained pedal point.
The extraordinary energy that drives his publishing empire was channelled for several wild years into an epic bout of self-destruction that reached a kind of sustained critical point with his crack-cocaine addiction.
Economists say that an oil price rise because of recent turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa could hit consumers if it is sustained, a point reinforced earlier this week by the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, in testimony on Capitol Hill.
If the Presiding Officer of the Senate — Vice-President Dick Cheney — sustained the point of order, Gold wrote, "he would set a new, binding Senate precedent allowing Senators to cut off debate".
