The powerful, both in government and in business, sustain themselves in this way, as a closed self-sustaining ruling class, while poverty continues widespread, and the public are essentially condemned to live under kleptocrats, who suck everyone else dry.
First, the drive for a health insurance policy has been sustained by the ruling National Resistance Movement NRMM), in power for over 25 years, and this has contributed to a strong sense of government ownership and deep institutional knowledge.
The district court judge refused and a majority of appellate judges sustained that ruling.
Democrats could challenge the Vice-President, but it takes only a majority vote to sustain a ruling by the Presiding Officer.
That leaves the labour required to sustain the ruling regime: you could be one of the lucky few who gets to write the software, or an intellectual property lawyer who protects it from infringement, or a cop who disciplines the large numbers of desperate people who are too poor to pay for it.
Sixteen Republicans, mostly from Northeast and West Coast states, voted to sustain the ruling; most Southern Democrats voted with the remaining Republicans to overrule it.
In fact, the Senate has changed its rules 18 times by sustaining or overturning the ruling of the presiding officer in the last 36 years, during the tenures of both Republican and Democratic majorities.
Bruck argued that Roof didn't understand the full weight of his actions, and tried to raise doubts about Roof's mental state, however Judge Gergel sustained objections by the prosecution, ruling that such considerations wouldn't be relevant until the sentencing phase of the trial.
Franklin County circuit court justice James E. Cantrill ruled against them, and the Kentucky Court of Appeals, then the state's court of last resort, sustained Cantrill's ruling by a vote of 4 3.
Draghi hinted there was a route to do that, while ruling out the ECB sustaining any loss.
Today's decision sustained that general ruling, but expressed an interest in delving further into the question of the effect of race in such cases.
