But sustaining this progress will be hard.
Yet the memory of Jordan ruling the basketball world is so powerful that it sustains the image of a championship-caliber franchise, even though some of the moves made since he left suggest a head-scratching cluelessness.
Instead of exploring the interior worlds of her material, she sustains the image of a plucky, can-do gal and good sport who swings at a steady jogging pace, assisted by Bill Moring on bass, Tim Horner on drums and Allen Farnham on piano.
It's the art-film industry — or, all too often, some soft-centered version of art films — that sustains the image of French films around the world, often less by way of inventive artistry than by a culturally-toned range of subject that substitutes genteel intellectualism and superficial politics for cinematic audacity.
But that could be a double-edged sword when Ms. Yingluck ventures outside red-shirt country and encounters large numbers of her brother's opponents, and it is not clear whether she can sustain the image that has buoyed her poll numbers.
But Cliff Roberts pal of Bobby Jones, cofounder of Augusta National, Eisenhower rainmaker and self-described "chief executive bastard"–did perhaps more than any other person to sustain the image of American golf as elitist and exclusive.
Many Myrthas fall into the sand trap of camp, but Teuscher masters the complexity of the character, and sustains the image of an avenging angel, the steadfast grassroots organizer of outcast women.
was left to explain away the discrepancy Kerry had exposed -- and to try to sustain the image of solidarity between Israel and the sanctions supporters that Boehner had hoped to project.
In his words, "How well or how poorly the combined services perform their combat missions matters less than their capacity to generate cash and to sustain the images of omnipotence.
One of the documentary's intriguing aspects is its subtle depiction of a man building and sustaining his image over a lifetime.
These issues along with current approach that discounts the importance of ecosystems-based approach has put forward many challenges and a question with regard to sustaining "green image of the city".
