'This will make it difficult to sustain scientific excellence.'

It has also earned him growing respect for running a program that sustains excellence, a particularly difficult feat in college basketball, where rosters change annually.

It is uncertain whether he will be able to sustain medal-winning excellence over the four and a half minutes of the long program.

It is that ability to sustain momentum and excellence that has been the key to the Germans' astonishing consistency in the World Cup.

The Patriots' blueprint for success is meant to sustain excellence, but Belichick does not want to focus on winning streaks.

It outlines the key challenges they faced on the journey to becoming outstanding and explains the ways in which they are seeking to sustain excellence.

This path starts from a desire to provide eSourcing services, and continues to the highest level, demonstrating an ability to sustain excellence.

"Absolutely," he said, well aware that Iona and Manhattan have tried and failed to sustain long-term excellence.

That is not the usual formula for sustaining excellence.

Dating back to the beginnings of Kansas State and Kansas football, neither school had sustained excellence consistently.