Sustenance Sentence Examples

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  • Katie watched her go, feeling better with the otherworldly sustenance in her system.

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  • Blood is your sustenance.

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  • Time was when this area's families spent their lives here, from birth to death with the soil providing their sustenance and the earth the riches, at least for a few.

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  • At last John of Giscala portioned out the sacred wine and oil, saying that they who fought for the Temple might fearlessly use its stores for their sustenance.

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  • They both set off into the Liverpool night seeking sustenance.

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  • I mean real food, sustenance.

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  • The healer stopped to rest and pushed immortal sustenance --small square water and food cubes - -into her mouth.

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  • And it equates to the hunter-gatherer who got sustenance by hunting mastodons and gathering berries.

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  • This would result in a reduction of the overall vulnerability of the countries by offering additional sustenance to the economies.

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  • I began to practice yoga and meditation, and developed through these, the capacity to depend far more upon myself for emotional sustenance.

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  • Our sandwich team had meanwhile been hard at work to supply more sustenance for the hard working players.

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  • I know how to have very very little of daily sustenance.

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  • Visitors to the area need sustenance, just as Chaucer's pilgrims did as they set off for Canterbury from the Tabard Inn.

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  • Yet more sustenance at the visitor center here eventually did the trick and the few miles back to Morvich went quite well.

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  • What goes unperceived is the destruction in nature and in people 's sustenance economy that this growth creates.

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  • The frightened creature is as ill prepared for the season as I and scurries about frantically in the deepening snow in search of sustenance.

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  • She handed the pale woman a food and water cube and popped two of her own.  Standing, she waded into the brush where she'd thrown the knife.  It glinted in the morning light.  Katie swiped it, glad the trees didn't have a taste for metal as well as Immortal sustenance.

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  • The emperor retained the supreme courts of appeal within the cities, and his claim for sustenance at their expense when he came into Italy.

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  • Four oboli a day, earned by copying manuscripts, sufficed for his bodily sustenance.

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  • The French, on the other hand, had great difficulty in establishing any such reserves of food, owing to their practice of depending for sustenance entirely upon the country in which they were quartered.

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  • Its usual haunts are the shallow margins of the larger lakes and rivers, where fishes are plentiful, since it requires for its sustenance a vast supply of them.

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  • The inorganic materials within it supply some of the chief substances utilized by plants for their development and growth, and from plants animals obtain much of their sustenance.

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  • The early German governments whose chief functions, military, judicial, financial, legislative, were carried on by the freemen of the nation because they were members of the body politic, and were performed as duties owed to the community for its defence and sustenance, no longer existed.

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  • For we offer to God the bread and the cup of blessing (€ Xoyia), thanking him for that he bade the earth produce these fruits for our sustenance.

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  • In winter, when the plants are at rest, little water will be necessary; but in the case of those plants which have no fleshy pseudobulbs to fall back upon for sustenance, they must not be suffered to become so dry as to cause the leaves to shrivel.

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  • Defective, however, as they may have been, and unfounded in fact, his kabbalistic doctrines led him to trace the dependence of the human body upon outer nature for its sustenance and cure.

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  • He first proposed to establish his paper at Washington, in the midst of slavery, but on returning to New England and observing the state of public opinion there, he came to the conclusion that little could be done at the South while the non-slaveholding North was lending her influence, through political, commercial, religious and social channels, for the sustenance of slavery.

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  • Gardiner speaks of the final shape of Charles's measure as " a wise and beneficent reform "; and he did aim at recovering the "teinds" or tithes, and securing something like a satisfactory sustenance for ministers.

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  • But since, in the middle ages, the Holy Land was no longer held by a Christian Power, the protection of the pilgrims was no less necessary than their sustenance.

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  • In fact such pastures are essential to the inhabitants of pastoral alpine districts, for the fodder to be obtained in the valley itself would not suffice to support the number of cattle which are required to afford sustenance to the inhabitants.

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  • The milk given each day by each cow is entered in a book, and then made into butter and cheese, the cow-herds and cheese-makers having the right to a certain proportion of milk, butter and cheese for their own sustenance, and receiving a small sum per head of cattle for looking after them.

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  • Restrictions necessary for the proper conservancy of the forests are, however, imposed, and the system of shifting cultivation, which denudes a large area of forest growth in order to place a small area under crops, is held to cost more to the community than it is worth, and is only permitted, under due regulation, where forest tribes depend on it for their sustenance.

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  • But Octavianus could not allow the capital to be kept in alarm for its daily sustenance.

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  • Depending mainly for food on the seeds of conifers, the movements of crossbills are irregular beyond those of most birds, and they would seem to rove in any direction and at any season in quest of their staple sustenance.

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  • St Francis did not intend that begging and alms should be the normal means of sustenance for his friars; on the contrary, he intended them to live by the work of their hands, and only to have recourse to begging when they could not earn their livelihood by work.

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  • The hay crop, 865,000 tons in 1909, is made quite largely from wild grasses and grains cut green; on the irrigated lands alfalfa is grown extensively for the cattle and sheep, which are otherwise almost wholly dependent for sustenance upon the bunch grass of the semi-arid plains.

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  • On many of these desolate rocks, which could have afforded only the barest sustenance, there are remains of the dwellings and churches of early religious settlers who sought solitude here.

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  • He took his bread and canteen of water—the morning sustenance for a slave—and tucked them into a cargo pocket.

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  • The image Jesus uses is of himself being a vine and of his followers being branches which draw sustenance and nourishment from the vine.

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  • There are many charities like hers which are aiming to provide material sustenance.

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  • The birds need sustenance to ensure they are fit enough to breed.

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  • We want to make sure kids with science minds are given sustenance.

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  • For many people it is also a source of spiritual sustenance.

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  • And when we needed a little sustenance, there were plenty of good restaurants, bars and coffee shops to choose from.

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  • Everyone retired back to the club for some excellent and much needed sustenance, starting with the solids and progressing to the liquids.

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  • For the larvae of their makers the galls provide shelter and sustenance.

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  • Visitors to the area need sustenance, just as Chaucer 's pilgrims did as they set off for Canterbury from the Tabard Inn.

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  • The cozy ambiance and yummy sustenance of a ski chalet holiday is the trendy option at present with numerous skiers.

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  • Secured business loans are the sustenance of any kind of business.

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  • Its meadow land - Mickle Mead, was once crucial for the sustenance of the whole community.

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  • Is there a Creator, other than Allah, to give you sustenance from heaven or earth?

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  • It provided a home and sustenance for sixteen poor persons, one of whom was to act as warden and read prayers daily.

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  • Many ancient civilizations relied upon grapes or a by-product of grapes for sustenance.

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  • Mraz's frequent use of acoustic guitars layered with both modern styles and 70s retro makes his music irresistible to up and coming guitarists yearning for nourishment through musical sustenance.

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  • An inadequate diet, improperly calculated insulin dose, minor illnesses, or excessive activity without adequate sustenance can contribute to the condition.

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  • Mom was not allowed to eat or drink anything after she was admitted to the hospital, even though she needed the sustenance for the hard work she was doing.

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  • If you really want to eat for two, pretend that one of the two is tiny creature that doesn't actually need much sustenance from you.

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  • Instead, we tend to rely on prepackaged and/or highly processed foods for our sustenance to some degree.

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  • Since this label also applies to glow-in-the-dark cereals and borderline absurd chemical concoctions with barely any semblance to natural human sustenance, manufacturers have quite a bit of leeway.

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  • Create a trail that will lead you to a number of galleries - and cafes for sustenance.

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  • Pisceans are truly elated when others are happy and getting along, and they struggle to hold on to that feeling because it gives them the sustenance to solider on.

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  • Although breastfeeding is consistently advocated as the healthiest form of nutrition for infants, there has long been a controversy involving this form of infant sustenance.

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  • The first public reaction to these attacks in Puerto Rico was that the mysterious and deadly creature was some horrible form of vampire. that was attacking livestock and other small animals as its form of sustenance instead of humans.

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  • There are some very fertile regions in the level portions of the county, but in the mountainous districts the soil is poor, the holdings are subdivided beyond the possibility of affording proper sustenance to their occupiers, and, except where fishing is combined with agricultural operations, the circumstances of the peasantry are among the most wretched of any district of Ireland.

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  • It is the law of diminishing returns from land, involving as it does - though only hypothetically - the prospect of a continuously increasing difficulty in obtaining the necessary sustenance for all the members of a society, that gives the principal importance to population as an economic factor.

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  • The sustenance of the poorer classes is chiefly composed of fish, potatoes and gofio, which is merely Indian corn or wheat roasted, ground and kneaded with water or milk.

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  • Petty is much concerned to discover a fixed unit of value, and he thinks he has found it in the necessary sustenance of a man for a day.

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  • In this way he is led to regard the sophist successively - (t) as a practitioner of that branch of mercenary persuasion in private which professes to impart " virtue " and exacts payment in the shape of a fee, in opposition to the flatterer who offers pleasure, asking for sustenance in return; (2) as a practitioner of that branch of mental trading which purveys from city to city discourses and lessons about " virtue," in opposition to the artist who similarly purveys discourses and lessons about the arts; (3) and (4) as a practitioner of those branches of mental trading, retail and wholesale, which purvey discourses and lessons about " virtue " within a city, in opposition to the artists who similarly purvey discourses and lessons about the arts; (5) as a practitioner of that branch of eristic which brings to the professor pecuniary emolument, eristic being the systematic form of antilogic, and dealing with justice, injustice and other abstractions, and antilogic being that form of disputation which uses question and answer in private, in opposition to forensic, which uses continuous discourse in the law-courts; (6) as a practitioner of that branch of education which purges away the vain conceit of wisdom by means of crossexamination, in opposition to the traditional method of reproof or admonition.

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  • Semitic tribes wandered northwards from their home in Arabia to seek sustenance in its more fertile fields, to plunder, or to escape the pressure of tribes in the rear.

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  • He took his bread and canteen of water—the morning sustenance for a slave—and tucked them into a cargo pocket.

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  • It will find sustenance equally on the driest of soils as on the fattest pastures; upland and fen, arable and moorland, are alike to it, provided only the ground be open enough.

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  • A very, very few people, however, were freed from this sustenance lifestyle, either by their fortuitous birth or outstanding ability.

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