1. “generate funds for sustaining local operations, the Coalition engaged in a process of building relations — sustaining relations among the participating individuals and institutions. The diverse partners came together around a shared interest in community education that had not been articulated collectively before their initial meeting in March 1996. They were drawn together by similar concerns and a common network of relations. The concerns drew the participants to coordinate needs and resources. The common network of relations allowed the diverse parties to come together.”
[at: Nocon, Cole, Vásquez, 7.01.00 - "Sustainability as Process...", acesso em 16 de outubro de 2008]

2. “Promoting and sustaining relations among person is a central focus of innovation and entrepreneurship on the Internet today. Think of free software/open source software projects, blogs, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, MySpace, and youtube. Notwithstanding the gentle teasing of a former colonial overlord, the U.S. Constitution has probably been one of the world’s most successful pieces of social software. You would never guess that from that past decade of debate about the Commerce Clause.”
[at: "peer production" by Douglas Galbi on June 19th 2006 to industry structure, acesso em 16 de outubro de 2008]

3. “This book is an interdisciplinary investigation of the fortification that creativity brings to a meaningful sense of self, to sustaining relations with others, to a vigorous sorole that education can serve towards these endeavors. ”
[at: The Dancing Self - Creativity, ... and Transformative Education", by Carol M. Press, acesso em 16 de outubro de 2008]

4. “temporal intimacy vs. sustaining relations >> ‘online friending’ | Economies. Friending – links between profiles. Economies that evolve from that.”
[at: blog felipe fonseca - Social futures, acesso em 16 de outubro de 2008]

5. “Cultural differences and the long present hierarchies of the colonial world engender a generalised suspicion towards western parties on the part of the Jordanian parties. Somehow, such conflict brings with it feelings of colonisation, victimisation and inferiority especially in a country like Jordan, which shares borders with many of the politically volatile countries in the region. There is sometimes a feeling of revenge. International commercial arbitration finds itself at the very centre of conflicting understandings and historic bitterness engendered in a colonial context. This situation is compounded by the contrast between western commercial interests’ quest for certainty and predictability of outcomes and the Arabs’ focus on sustaining relations and a culture of seeking pragmatic solutions to conflict.”